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having been summoned by the Chief of the General Staff for a conference on
internal security. Tribal questions generally are under discussion and particu
larly the attitude the Government should adopt towards the return of tribal
chiefs to their estates in tribal areas. Some of these, taking advantage of the
breakdown in administration that followed on the events of last August, ha^JT
already taken possession of their lands. The generals are on the whole fiot \
enthusiastic about undertaking the operations necessary to dispossess them by
force. The Government are also averse from extensive military operations, but
at the same time fear the result of allowing the chiefs again to establish them
selves in authority in the tribes.
Azerbaijan.
7. The situation in the Rezaieh district is calming down. The Soviet
authorities are co-operating to restrain the Kurds. Most of the villagers have
returned to their homes.
8 . In Khalkbal (Eastern Azerbaijan) there has been some disturbance
resulting from the collection of arms by Persian troops (see Summary No. 20/42,
paragraph 15).
9. The whole of the force despatched from Tehran (see Summary No. 20/42,
paragraph 7) has now reached Rezaieh.-
10. The following important Kurds of Azerbaijan are now in Tehran :
Qazi Mohamed and Sheikh Abdullah of the Mahabad (Sauj Bulagh) District,
and Qarani Agha, Chief of the Mamish. Among representations they have made
is that the Dehbukri chieftain. Amir Assad, whom the Persian Government
recently appointed Governor of Mahabad, should be replaced by a Persian official.
11 . The intrusion of a small British mechanised column, moving from Mosul
via Rowanduz to Saqqiz, Senneh and Kermanshah, has given rise to a number
of rumours in Azerbaijan : the British were coming to keep order in the Rezaieh
area, the Russians having failed to do so; the Germans were approaching the
Caucasus and the British had come to help the Russians; the British had realised
• that the Russians were bound to be defeated and were reconnoitring positions to
be occupied when that happened.
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Fars.
12 . The General Officer Commanding the Fars Division reports that the
operations in Dashti have been brought to a successful conclusion, all chiefs
having submitted except Ali Ismail of Daiyyr.
13. Except for some minor robberies on the road between Shiraz and Abadeh,
the work of migrating tribes, the situation in Ears is quiet. Troops are being
moved from both the Fars and Isfahan Divisions towards the summer quarters
of the Boir Ahmadi and these movements may explain approaches recently made
by certain rebel Boir Ahmadi chiefs to Persian officials both in Ahwaz and
Isfahan.
14. The Government have informed the Governor-General of Fars that they
will in no circumstances agree to the recognition of Nasir Qashgai as head of
the tribe.
Khuzestan.
15. The General Officer Commanding South-Western Division now
considers that it will be unnecessary to make a military demonstration against
the Arabs. He has advocated a reasonable policy of reconciliation (see Summary
No. 21/42, paragraph 11 ).
Kurdistan.
16. The situation in Northern Kurdistan is reported in paragraph 7 above.
In Southern Kurdistan the situation is still quiet. General Shahbakhti has,
according to his own statement, made an agreement with some of the Baneh
Beqzadehs, not including Hama Rashid, regarding local security and responsi
bility which may be temporarily satisfactory. There are now no Persian-
troops nearer to Baneh than Saqqiz, where Persian administration has been
re-established.