Coll 28/120 ‘Persia. Ahwaz – Consular diaries.’ [‎87r] (174/669)

IV QTOTKKAL
then
(e)
Capep of typhua occur about the pame rate and 30 v/erc.
reported in Ahwaz town during the firpt week of the mohthc Four
teen capee of typhoid, one of them fatal, were reported during
the pame period 0
V. TFIBAL
( 9 ) With reference to para 12 of the Iqpt Ahwaz diary, narhang
Hum a jam i appears to have achieved all that could ha'vd been expec
ted in very difficult country with the entirely inadequate forces
at his dippopalo He pucceeded in recapturing Bagh Maiik, the garri-
pion of which had been burned out, and relieved Qaleh Tul. He then
retired on the Bud-i-Zard according to plan to awai- reinforcementp.
The me a pure of hip puccepp can be .judged by the fact that Moho Ali
Khan Khalili, the Be ham i leader, has refused in ppit-> of pres sure
by Ali Asgar and Alavi to join the insurgents* Hathe? unreliable re
ports state that Farjullah Khan Kiani, the renegade rt Bakhrhdar n cf
Janiki, and his faction have offered their aubmissior., Herhang Humay
uni cannot, however, hope to retake and hold Iseh with his present
forces and until he does so a potential threat to the oil fields at
Haft Ke.l and iviasjj.d-i~ c vuleman remains*
(10) With reference to para .13 of the last Ahwaz dtsry• Abdullah
Khan Sarghampur concluded his conversaticns with Khusicv/,. brother of
N&sir Khan Qashgai, and returned to- Pi.ll.i on 5th May, It is popular
ly believed that Khusrow wished to arrange for the lupaahnri and
Qashquli tribes to pass through the Boir AJnned Piarhaddi territoriee
via ?ul-'i-Khusrow on their way to their summer quarter-?? instead of
following the normal route which is reported to be strongly he la by
the Iranian forces« Neither Mohd Hussain Tahery nor Ma.i.ek Mansur
Basht feariv both cf whom would 1 e affected by the propnecd change,
appear to have been present at the discussions *
(n) The presence of these two tribal leaders with large armed
retinues produced no incidents in the G-ach aaran area* On 2.2th May,
however, the- European pipe line engineef, deceiving information of
an am:ush prepared for him, succeeded in getting tbrou.gh rnforma,-
tion by means of a portable telephone to the amnier.. who ".aptiir-ed
five Basht Bavis complete with rifles«» A gendarme, however, who is
reported to be a Bavl, hap since deserted with four new rifles.
(12) A somewhat disquieting series of incidents las taken place
on the traditionally peaceful Agha Jari-'Pazanun sector* On 1 st May
Agha Jari No*5 V/ell was raided* On 6 th May Pazanun No*3 WeU wan
raided and the workmen stripped* On 13th May a party of cars con
taining Eurepean staff travelling between Pazanun and Agha Jari
came under heavy fire near Bilawand resulting in the killing^ of an
Iranian driver and the wounding of an Iranian telephonist* The^
Europeans were/taken into the hills, stripped, and robbed of all
that a
attempt
their possessions. This is the first time for some year;
hold up has taken place on the road without at J ease an
stop the vehicles peaceably.
If Persian troops were to be withdrawn from Benbahan one
Gaoh Baran for the Izsh operations, such incidents might attorn
really serious proportions«
to
VI. a ABABn
(3,3)
mnixa (mem:
rt V ./1 i U l
tha late- Bijoikh of Mobsmmer&h* re
cently appeared at Qijari.ysh, a village between Kncrramsixahk and
Ahwaz. At the request of the local G'vernor, H*M< Kli^rraxn-
shahr saw ^heikh Ghassif f asked what he wanted and advised him tc*
return to Basra* The BLeikh replied that his intenti '/ns were peace
able and he wished to settle his affairs with the Iranian g?vex-n—
raer.t and obtain permission to 11 vs in Khuziatan; he woull, neweveri
fight to the end rather than return to Basra. H.M* Consul saw about
200 armed men with the sheikh*
(l4) Meanwhile the Governor-General had sent a few gendarmes tb