Coll 28/117 ‘Persia. Kerman, Yezd – (Bandar Abbas): Intelligence Summaries.’ [‎172r] (346/517)

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%Jm Nn*lr?&»<teh has naoooft^o^ in puttinr m t** 5ior<j oonijio*
Aitloft on thft ifiarkot* H# hnii ftlno «fcnftf«a to brlig thft priocm of
obarooml down from ftl*!* 10/- to 6/- p«r kii.o« that of b^g^-from;
13/- to 1ft/- por 3 kil 08 t and that of moot from l36^--44-ill0^a_iiflr
3 fcllOft.
4*00111 and uietrlet
51. As a moult of ordora rooolvod from ^ofiron, tho &akh*h of
ilrjan has boon ralsol to a Charlatan. Jumai'farJ t tho ox-
Farowndnr of Bnndftr Abbas, hoe boon appolntod aa formrndar of bir 4 1ftn»
52. A fovr oaftoa of typhus ham boon rooortod from ^ftfsin,Ian. Tho
hoUosl Cffloor of tho tovm haa hi me elf oontrnotod tho dlooftso and
is at prooont under tr^itmont in the unioipal Hospital at Kerman*
53. It ie reported that the inhabitante of tho rillaire of trxooleh
are experienoin^ ^reat difficulty oving to look of ^Tain, much of
which has boon looted by bandits in that ares.
54. The activities of the Tudeh and other parties in lead end in
other parts of Iran appear to be having s contagious effect on the
normally passive minds of the Ker.manis. About 200 local truck own
ers and drivers have reoently formed a union oalled the Driver'll
Union (Itehadleh Hfuuutdlgan) t the chief aim of which is apparently
to afford help to lorry drivers when neoetieary. Apart from the
preliminary meeting at which the union was instituted, they lave
had no other meetings*
55* Reference rmraipapha 35 and 36* All three factories in lord -
the Herati, 'Jurakhshan and Iqbal - closed on February 6th as the
result of a strike Initiated by the leader of the 'u&eh party there,
Abbas UataAan. The Gendarmerie were imMeCIt^tely posted to guard
the factories and polios petrols In the town were Increased in order
to maintain peaee*
56* An arme^ antl-Tudeh party (with which Dr* Tahiri is associated)
however, broke into the of flee of the Tudeh party on the follcelng
day and act it on fire* Abbes Untedan made gt od his escape, but
was subsequently attacked and seriously wounded*
57. The public In lezd are reported to attribute these soilvlties
to intrlbueo by the British, initiate^ by H.,i. Consul during his visit
to lead at the end of January*
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His A^jftaty'e Consul, ker»t»n.
merman.
19th lebruary, 1945.