Coll 28/117 ‘Persia. Kerman, Yezd – (Bandar Abbas): Intelligence Summaries.’ [‎229r] (460/517)

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reported to the Police who showed commendable energy and initiative*
Within a week 8 arrests were made and 4 of them were identified as
having committed a series of armed robberies in the town over the
last 18 raonthl They confessed to 12 charges of armed burglary and
disclosed the location of some of the articles stolen which were re~
- stored to their owners. The trial is still proceeding and severe
sentences are expected.
Local News .
528. It is reported that the Shah has given a sun of
170,00/- tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. for the completion of a 60 bed hospital in Kerman
the foundations of which were laid three and a half years ago.
529. Dr.Vakili, Health Officer, Kerman, states that he has
received a sum of 20,000 tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. from Tehran for the construction
of a government hospital in Sir Jan.
530. Reference para 438. Police posts for checking the identi-
-ty and movements of travellers entering and leaving Kerman were
abolished on the 21st.
531. Instructions from Tehran now prohibit the cultivation of
opium in the 8th Ustan and 13 officials appointed by the ITstandar
are now busy collecting the present harvest throughout the province.
532. The Chief of Police mentioned that orders have been receiv-
-ed from Tehran that Police officials should in future call less
frequently on British Consular Officials.
533* The Chief of Police reports that he has been instructed
to submit all his political reports direct to the Ustandar to deal
with instead of sending them, as formerly, to Tehran.
534. During the period under review that Ustandar convened a
meeting of local landowners at the Governorate discuss the ques-
-tion of a more equitable division of produce between landowners and
farmers.
^35* Reference para 520. Aqai Sadiq Nawab An honorific title; an official acting as a provincial deputy ruler in South Asia; or a significant Muslim landowner in nineteenth century India. , the recently apooin
-ted ohahrdar of Kerman, is the son of Aqai Hussain H a wab of Yezd‘ an
onJ ^ Centr a 1 Pwty. i 3 27 years of a^e
?£« 1* his first appointment. A statement was published in
'p i Paper 'Inaan-i-Azad' of the 22nd April to the ef-
-feot that A^ai Sadi. Jawah, a freedom-loving and active youth has
been appointed Shahrdar of Kerman#* *
Activities of th e Hjzb-i-Irnan in Kermfl.n T
536. Us tad an, the leader of the Tudeh Party at Yezd amived '
in Kerman on the 3rd and left on the 6th. H e contacted J^ad slhib ‘
tfle - oos i leader of the Hizb-i-Iman, and certain miMtarv
officers recently released from detention for alleged complicity"!/
the mutiny of a few months ago. K-npxicity in
f® 7 * .. ***** the recommendation of the Ustandar and the Chief o'
° f Finanoe D has sant J awad Sahib Ikhtayari o'n of-
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533. During the period under report meetings of the Partv »<•
their premises were held regularly on Pridai' evenings during- wh’!
inflammatory speeches, similar to those of the Tudeh^Partv V. / m a
At the meeting of the 12th they claimed to have beL o'/////.! ' 3
-msed by the Union Assembly of Workers, Tehran. Of late th^/have 08 "
been directing their main attacks against the managL^nt of tL local