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^ Th^ ®ccupants were severely beaten and robbed of £ll their
possessions.. This is the second time that this telephone
house has been raided since September,
With reference to para 6 of Ahwaz diary fci loth,
to olst October o reports from Janiki indicate that Persian
officers •' depravations are arousing serious resentment, and
that an explosion is not unlikely,
^ 7h Arabs
With reference to para 7 of the last Ahwaz diary
further reports were received that the Arabs at Busang.ird were
being prevented from cultivating their rice lands, Cclonal
Zarrabi gave His Majesty's C«nsul-G-eneral an under-staking on
12th December that full permission would be given to the
Arabs on the same day and subsequently confirmed that this
ha# been done.
4 B rit ish Mi lit ary interests ,
On 5th December, the Military Police alsrng with the-
Piold Security Police and representatives of the Persian
police, raided houses in the town ®n information received f:r#m
His Majesty 5 s C®nsuiate-Gencral c Stolen property, which
included a military tyre, tools, electrical and sanitary
fittings, and edd articles of army clorhing, was recoversd
fr®ra ail three houses« Investigation by the Persian police
continues t
As the Persian postal lorries are almost al3 ir.om^bi-
( lised for lack ®f tyres, arrangements have been made O': ;
( the British military authorities are n®w transporting the
P international mail betv/een Ahwaz and Khorramshahr by rail
( behalf ef the Persian authorities,
f The British Military autn@rities are handling the
( transport ®f the grain which the Army is providing for the
( Persian government pending the arrival from Canada of the
P 25,000 tons promissed in the recent agreement, S®mel§43 t«ns
( out of a total of 15t0 tens of wheat fl«ur have already left
' Ahwaz ; and 1121 tons of the barley, which is being unloaded
; at Ahorramshahr and railed direct fr®m there, is reverted
{ to have left Khorramshahr.
At the request of His Majesty's C*nsul General, the
G-©verncr"General has declared the entire port area «t Bandar
Shs.hp’ir and certian parts ef Ahwaz, Khorramshahr and Andimoshk
,J pi-ohibited areas' 1 for access to which a joint pass signed
by both British and Persian authorities is required.
5, Pumeurs
In spite of the lack of any full official account of
the ^ eh ran ’'hunger riots’ 5 and the golden ® pp® r tun i ties
consequently offered to rumour-mongers, recent events in the
capital h
v c m
t. - r
wnc nave pro peroy or
Khu zist ani feels th a t
for a long ti
of Tehran, an
B a B ,0 .0 s o a i o
agents he nuv
®f some sort.
i no one m Ahwaz ex cent the :'ew
Diations in Tehran.. The average
six months ago he was, and had been
than the people
i ar w c
for br-e
while He
tends
ti be ve
eat that
the ri®
ts were
rtheless
thinks
that the
engineered t
o.e
• Axis
i-'or c.lmest
bazar rumours that
from the British P
two months there have been persistent
the- Arnei i eans were ab®ut to take ovcr
jrcos all of whom were leaving Persia.
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