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day sharing loot which included gendarmerie uniforms.
(19) Colonel Homayuni has called upon riohamed duss*.ln Taheri,
kalantar of the section to which the gang is reoorted to helong, to
surrender the offenders and return the stolen property. No
answer, it is understood, has !*een received. The Officer
^pCommanding troops is also repotted to have called in i.ialik x.iansur,
hea^ ©f the Basht Bavi and to hav° started discussions with Balik
iviansur's masterful mother,. These discussions presumably refer to
the occupation of Basht Kf(compare para 23 of Ahraz diary,for 1st
to 15th January) which Colonel homayuni appears determined tc
carry out in spite of the difficulties of protecting a thirty
mile line of communication through difficult country,
f2«) Nhs ^r.g" .-■■Iranian Oil Company telephone house at mile 27
(compare para 20 of the last Ahwaz diary) has again been raided
and some damage done to instruments. As the result of considerable
pressure, a small detachment of gendarmerie has been sent for
protection of the telephone house.
VI. Arab s
(21) With reference to para 31 of the last Ahwaz diary about two
thirds of the Khasraj Abdullah came in and made their submission on
the appearance af Cel. .Homayuni's forces. The men of the recalci
trant section, met the Persian forces on 15th February and suffered
three casualties against the Persians' one. They were, however,
obliged to retire leaving their families under the control of the
Persian forces. The loader of the recalcitrant section is new
reported to have asked the military Governor of Cusar.gird for terms.
(22) Colonel Homayuni had planned,provided Persian aircraft
arrived, to proceed with the postponed operation for the disarmament
of the Beni Turuf on 20th February, On the previous day it was
found that the I^ritish military authorities had provided military
transport for this operation. It was felt that the use of British
military transport would gratuitously involve the British in s.
military operation against the Arabs which did not directly icncern
our interests and was primarily a Persian responsibilityPersian
government departments, civil or military, have a profound
reluctance to pay f»r hired transport, and it was only with the
greatest difficulty that civilian hired transport in plaje of the
military trucks was procured for the Persian forces. Finally, on
the day fixed, the Persian aircraft assigned for the operation had.
not appeared and the Officer Commanding on *2 again postponed his
departure,
(23) Tith reference fe para 32 of the last Ahw&z diary the
Persian Officer Commanding troops reports that the Arab rilled in
the incident at Deh Mulla had apparently been run down before he
was shot.
(24) Seyed Issa Kamaluddin f in an interview with a member of the
A.L.O's staff recently, mentioned that Arabs would not tike part
in the forthcoming elections as they did not c insider themselves to
be Iranians and proposed to send a mission to 'rnq to retro sent
their claims and grievances to the Allied nations and representative
of other Arab nations. Charges of tyranny and neglect of culti
vation were levied against she Iranian Government and a lonparison
drawn with the peace and prosperity which pr-vailed in tr.e time of
Sheikh Khazal.
VII. Britis h Forces,
(25) Between 25th January and 25th February the Soec.ai
Investigation Branch cf the Military police recovered VAD. property
to the value of ,£,1002 from the possession of civilians in the
Ahwaz area.
(8d) A. E. H. MACANJS.
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