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Brigadiers—
Jaafer Gholi Beglari.
Gholam Ali Zand.
Abbas Alborz (13).
Malke.
Ali Rahimi (236).
Abulqasim Giranmayeh.
Abdul Hussein Ghaffari (96).
Transfers.
Brigadier Reza Gholi Khosrovi to the Ministry of Finance.
Brigadier Afkhami (2) to the Ministry of the Interior.
Brigadiers Aslam and Zulfaqari to the Ministry of Public Health.
(Note. —The first figure after a name refers to military attache’s, and the
second to the Foreign Office, list of personalities.)
Among the retired generals are two of the most famous, or notorious,
lieutenants of the ex-Shah—Karim Buzurjmehri and Khodayar.
Corrigendum.
Reference paragraph 15 of Summary No. 24. Colonel Khadiri was appointed
to command the gendarmerie of Khorassan, not Khuzestan.
British Affairs.
18. The British Overseas Airways Corporation has inaugurated a weekly
service between Cairo and Tehran. E^lanes will reach Tehran on Mondays and
leave on Wednesdays. It is hoped that the Soviet Government will establish a
connecting service between Tehran and Russia.
19. Mr. Harrison, of the Eastern Supply Board, has arrived in Tehran to
investigate the possibilities of arms and munition factories in Persia.
Russian A ffairs.
20. The Soviet Embassy has published a denial of the rumours current for
some time that Soviet troops were evacuating Persia. It is, however, common
knowledge that garrisons in certain towns have been greatly reduced and that
some troops have returned to the Caucasus. His Majesty’s Consul at Tabriz
reports that fresh troops have moved into Persia from the Caucasus.
Turkish Affairs.
21. Articles recently published in the Turkish press have attacked Persia «e r.t. x
for oppressing and neglecting so-called Turkish minorities and endeavouring to
suppress the Turki language. This has caused some resentment. The Persian
press has replied that there are no Turkish minorities in Persia, although there
are some Turki-speaking Persians.
The principal Turki-speaking peoples of Persia are the Qashqai tribes of
Pars, the Turkoman tribes of North-East Persia, and a number of the inhabitants
of Azerbaijan. None of these have any particular attachment to Turkey. The
j last-named have provided many of Persia’s best servants and most ardent
j nationalists. While Turki is not taught in Persian schools, no measures have
been taken to suppress its use.
Yugoslav Interests.
22. Colonel Bankovitch, the special representative of the Yugoslav General
Staff in Egypt, has been successful in obtaining about seventy Yugoslavs of
military age for service with the Yugoslav military forces in the Middle East,
These men will be proceeding to Egypt at an early date.
About sixty others of military age, mainly Croats, have refused to serve in
any way and in consequence have had their Yugoslav passports annulled.
Arrangements are being made for these men, who are mostly of the skilled
labouring class, to be deported from Persia to detention camps either within the
British Empire or in the U.S.S.R.