Coll 28/117 ‘Persia. Kerman, Yezd – (Bandar Abbas): Intelligence Summaries.’ [‎165r] (332/517)

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433• neferwnce paragraph 43 < /,
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half of Iteeojgfeer,
wn route to tt^sra end
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Consul, Bandar Atelias, proceeded to Isfahan
^ land, on the 1st, after handing over chirge ojfDxpg
eul^te. Bandar d»to^s f to Lieutensnt Colons ■ Allou| hhy, H.:'
Consul, Kerman*
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Captain u*A. VcCona, hey
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4r%>. Lieutenant Colonel ^ttoullah and I'ajor ^eqvi arrived on the
bth fro:i Tehran end proceeded to ahidan on the following day*
440. ar* P. :iquarey, Chief Locust rfflcer, Persia, arrived on the
12th with one British officer, 12U Indian other and 20 Irani
ans* ihe party left for ’:irjan, an route to Bondar Stoats, on the
14 th.
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441. Hgha Heal lev! arrived from Tehran durin, the fortnight to
take his appointment as i utelic Prosecutor, XLernan*
Military * Brigadier ha’ri, the u.o.c., Kerman, intends
leaving shortly for -irdan to meKe enquiries into the siote of
security in tiiot area.
economic
443* The distribution of monopolised goods fox the last quarter
of the Iranian year (22nd decen&er to 2iet frarchj has been in pro
gress since December iLth, and about 200 families receive their
rations every day* uhough previous distributions had caused the
prices of those commodities to fall in the market, the present one
is having no effect whatever on prices, vhieh tend to increase.
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444* security has deteriorated in some measure. ivro bad cases
of hold-ups occurred on the road from ^afsinjan to Kernan during
the fortnight• r. . . rhMMMfW, an .r ue-.a- : cmrf t ■—
of Kerman, while returning by car from Ttefsinjan on the 7th December
with qghe Bahraa * a jdssadeh, a Kerman lawyer, was ambushed near the
Kabootarbhan -Uver by a of atout 25 arr*ed robbers. The driver
accelerated and drove on, but the c »r was fired at by the bandits
ana Khanbabayan was hit in the Lacb by a bullet* He suheequently
died in the C*M*3* Hospital in Kenan.
44o* < little after the incident occurred, an e»*B.R. lorry, con-
taimtv personal effects to ttie value of about lUu,0uu/- tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. ,
wee stored on the way to Kerman by the S’^me garu,, who toob it a
little way off the orau and proceeued to loot it. The erman
uenaarmene, who h^d in the meantime been informed of tuie attics on
IL anaabayan, then arrived at the spot, but the robbers,made off
with about 4,000 tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. worth of goods* Though they waxe pursued
by the Gendarmes, there is no news of their navuv been apprehenaed
&»/L yet*
440* Local rumours hrve it that the attack on Khsabebeyem was not
merely an attempt at robbery but that it was the outcome of a plan
to assassinate him, in whlct the driver of the k.B* 1. lorry follow
ing the car was implicated*
44/. v tele, raphic re ort from Urjen st tes that on the 7th
December, two weIl*known robbers of that area, eihan ««nd ohamm^d,
were shot in an engagement with e military unit heeded by : ieuten-
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