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Coll 28/120 ‘Persia. Ahwaz – Consular diaries.’ [36r] (72/669)
The record is made up of 1 file (332 folios). It was created in 29 Jul 1942-9 Feb 1946. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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1 6th t o 31 st O ct o b er 1942
El<Ulh *1*4
1. Eriti
sh and Allied Officials.
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1,1 r. H. Hall of the Anflo-Boviet-Persian Joint
Tehran arrived in Ahwaz
tor- Censorship and Public Belations Bureau
on 14th, visited Bandar Phahpur <in 16t
16th and returned, ehran on
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l^th October.
Lieut.Colonel ^.C-V?. ? T oel, C. I.,P. c. , arrived
from India cn 18th October. He comes to work on the Khuzistan
Agricultural Projects at Hamidiyeh and Ahu Dasht.
Mr. (t.F. Pquire of His Majesty's Legation Tehran
arrived by air on 2*rd October aocoinuanied by Professor v /ins®r,
the irrigation expert from Utah. Mr. Squire visited the sites
of the Khuzistan Agricultural Projects at Hamidiyeh, left f*r
Khorramshahr on 26th October and returned to Tehran.or, ??th.
M. Dmitri Lambros, Greek Charge d'Affaires in ^ehran,
arrived en route for Tehran on 24th October and left by train
for Tehran on the same day.
His Majesty's Consul-General visited Khorramshahr on
27th and returned on 29th October.
2. P ersian Of f icials.
With reference to para J «f Ahwaz diary for 15th-60th
September, the Governor-General returned from Tehran or. 16th
October.
Sarhang Pur-i-kastegar, the Officer Commanding
Gendarmerie of Ustan Vlth, whose head quarters are at Khorram-
abul , visited Ahwaz and Behbehan during the period under review.
Sarhang Alburz Commissioner of Police for Khuzistan
proceeded to Khorramshahr on the 26rd and returned cr. the 25th.
Aqa Kusta, the Head of the D$mains Department at
’ehran came to Ahwaz on the 26rd and returned on the £8th. He
visited Ahv/az in order to sign an agreement handing ever control
of the Society of Agriculture to Colonel ’W Noel with a view to
the development of agricultural lands at Hamidiyeh and Ahu Dasht
Aqa iHateen, the Tarmandar of Khorramshahr Tisited
Ahwaz during the period under report.
Sartip Earrabi, Officer Commanding ^roops Khuzistan, proceeded to
Pehbehan on the 29th on a tour of inspection.
The Kaliddar of the shrine of Hazrat~i- Abbas at
Karbala, who retains Iranian nationality, arrived in Ahwaz with
his family on S^rd October and left on the following day after
spending the night with the Governor-General, "he Kaliddar had
been on pilgrimage to aehhed. ^
3. xiovements of Foreigners.
d* Hager Andre Videlou, a i’r°nch architect now
working with the contractor Kettaneh, arrived from Tehran on 16th
October. He carries passport No. 347 issued at Beyrouth on 16th
December 1940 and carte No. 947 of the Comite Nationale
Pranqais at Tehran 8th*panuary 1942.
R£C». POL. DEPiv 7
J10 V! 942
IND r ' ^trerfrp
Ivan Xukurich, a Yugoslav mining engineer, holding
/Vhite.
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Consular diaries detailing affairs in Ahwaz [Ahvāz], Persia [Iran]. The diaries were submitted on a fortnightly basis by the British Consul at Ahwaz, although for some periods they were submitted monthly. The diaries cover the period of the Second World War and the Anglo-Soviet occupation of Iran, beginning in August 1941. Subjects covered in the diaries include: the actions of the local Persian administration, including the movements of local Persian officials; the economic situation, including agricultural production, harvests, irrigation, food supply and prices; tribal affairs in the surrounding region, with frequent reference to the Bakhtiari, Kughilu (also spelt Kuh Galu) and Arab tribes, tribes in Luristan [Lorestān], and their relations with the Persian authorities; the movements of foreigners; internal security; public health; local politics and elections; communications, including roads and railways; meteorological observations; British interests, including the movements of British officials and British subjects; Soviet interests; propaganda and public opinion.
The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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- 1 file (332 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 334; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- Coll 28/120 ‘Persia. Ahwaz – Consular diaries.’
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- front, front-i, 1ar, 2r:234v, 236r:333v, back-i, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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