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Officials.
4. The Soviet Embassy having withdrawn its objection, Ali Mansour has
left for Meshed (see Summary No. 3. paragraph 3 (vi)).
(i) Niri to be Governor of Turbat-i-Haidari.
(ii) Roshan to be Governor of Kashan.
Internal Security.
A zerbaijan.
5. His Majesty’s Consul at Tabriz recently paid a visit to Urumieh. He
reports that order has been completely restored by the Soviet military authorities,
but that neither Persian officials nor the police and gendarmerie were functioning.
The Kurds, he thought, were not giving much trouble in Urumieh itself, but
were practically independent in their own districts.
6. The Soviet authorities have agreed to Persian troops being sent to
Ardebil for operations for the pacification of the Khalkhal country. (See
Summary No. 4, paragraph 8.) —
Khorassan.
7. A column of Persian troops consisting of two battalions of infantry, four
tanks and a battery of field guns left Tehran for Meshed where they are due on
the 2nd February for the suppression of Soulat-es-Sultanah j'see Summary No. 4,
paragraph 9). They are to be joined at Meshed by two squadrons of cavalry
from Birjand. Soulat-es-Sultaneh has retired to Turbat-i-Sheikh Jam. It is
not expected that he will make any serious resistance.
The troops mentioned above are to stay in Meshed.
8. Soulat-es-Sultaneh’s outbreak led to some disorder in Khorassan. There
were many unfounded rumours and some brigandage, some rioting in
Turbat-i-Haidari, and wheat that had been purchased for the labourers by^ con
tractors employed on the maintenance of the Nokkundi-Meshed road had been
looted and lorries carrying wheat prevented from leaving the town. The removal
of wheat from any area in the present conditions of shortage and high prices is
always liable to cause indignation, particularly if there is suspicion, as in this
case, that it is being bought for the British.
9. There was a further raid by Baluchis on a small village in the neighbour
hood of Qiamabad (see Summary No. 4, paragraph 10). There is as yet no
South Persia.
10. Hold ups occurred on the Kerman-Zahidan and Isfahan-Shiraz roads.
In the first case some lorries carrying the post were looted by raiders, probably
Persian Baluchis, 80 miles west of Bam. In the second, Mr. Winsor, the
American irrigation expert, was looted 60 miles north of Shiraz. The band
alleged to have committed this robbery, twelve in number, has been captured and
taken in to Shiraz.
11. Operations have been initiated for the restoration of Persian Govern
ment authority in Dashti and for the collection of arms. A column of Persian
troops has reached Khormuj, 40 miles south-east of Bushire.
Kurdistan.
12. Certain sections of the Qalbaghi had already submitted, and the
resistance of the remainder of this troublesome tribe has probably been broken by
the capture of 150 of them by Persian troops. Arms are now being collected.
Mohamed Rashid has not been heard of for some time and is said to be ill. There
seems at the moment to be little obstacle to an advance on Saggiz^ by Persian
troops except their own fears of Russian support of the Kurds and perhaps
the snow. ,
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Kermanshah.
13. An advance by Persian columns against the Kakavand and
Ahmadawand led, according to the statement of the Persian military commander.