Coll 28/120 ‘Persia. Ahwaz – Consular diaries.’ [‎80r] (160/669)

(§) One fc/e-proitact of the rain, which ha« kept down
temperatures? and discturaged the ptorer nection" of the
pepulation from carting their loury winter clother and resuming
the lii ths they take in rummer, har keen the eutkreak of typhue,
beventy-rix carer, rix »f them fatal, amang the Persian civil
and military pepulationr had been reparted tn the Ahwaz area ky
the end of the month. The British military authorities, whe
repart a small numker af caeep amang the British forcte, have
given invaluakle help to the PerrkcLn medical author!tier whore
rerourcer fer diagnorir and detection of the disease were
negligikle* If, ar appears prokable, the provision of facilities
for delouring and isolation kecome necessary to prevent £
serious epidemic, the bulk of the work and expense will ie
born by the British; the Persian civil horpital is now fall and
it is understood that funds are not available far expansion.
(10) The Nauruz celebrations passed eff v/ithout incident The
Governor-General gave a reception for Persia* afficials jind
notables on the Nauruz; it is repartrd that his kehaviou? was
favourably contrasted with his lack of courtesy at the
Id-i-ilab’ath. (Compare para 4 af Ahwaz diary far the fi^r-t half of
August 1942) Later in the morning the Governor-General received
the congratulatiane of s His Majesty’s representatives, the allied
forces, the European community and members of the Soviet
Consulate staff.
(11) A Vicent plane was lost between Isfahan and Ahwaz at! 13th
4*rch; the remains have not yet been found. On 24th March the
pilot of a Hurricane flying from Tehran to Abadan made a forced
landing at the village of Buraki near bhushtar; the pilot : who
unhurt, was well treated and the appropriate letters *f
appreciation have keen sent.
V. Tribal .
(12) The extreme tension among the Kuhgilu trikes reported in
? ara 23 of the last Ahwaz diary appear*" to have disappeared,
argely doubtless because the Persian military forces*die not make
th^jr expected move before Nauruz. The Darashuri, who w*re to
have followed a new route to their summer quarters in concert
with the Boir Ahmed barhaddi, have begun their mdve and aave
crossed the :iuhreh river with the evident intention of fallowing
th£Ar normal rout©. The united f©ont which the tribes had
ostensibly attained appears to have disintegrated and the normal
state of chaos has keen resumed: Abdullah Khan Zarghaupur is
reported by the A.L.O. to have asked for a meeting to be arranged
with the authorities, but his brother Khuerow is suppose* to
have approached the Officer Commanding Persian Troops wi'-.h an
offer to liquidate Zarghampur - on terms; Ohulam Hussain Jalil,
a former support of Mohamed Hussain Tahery,is now reported to
have gone over to Zarghampur and a number of collisions ire said
to occurred between the two factions.
(13) v . ith reference to para 29 of the last Ahwaz diary Aii Asgar
and Akol Qasem soon began to cast their net wider and wrote to
Mohamed Ali Khan Khalili Behmai, protesting in somewhat ominous
tones against the Behmai leaders rather respectable relations with
the Persian authorities. Reports continued to come in fo? the
rest of the fortnight of concentrations of Bhkhtiari and Sehmai
malcontents. The ^e^uence of events became rather okscurj but
on 31st March a considerable force - certainly not the on*
thousand reported by the Military Governor of Izeh - move3 on
and captured Izeh. The military Governor succeeded in making his
escape along with the garrison, both cavalry and infantry, the
former bringing in the latters’^ arms. Alarmist rumours
attacks on the iuiplo-Iranian Oil Co. areas at Masjid-l-buiaiman
have so far proved unfounded and njt very impressive Persian
forces have been ‘"ent aut from kam Hormuz in the direction of
Baiun.
VI Arabs.