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since hardly any wheat wascallected from the Ah-i-Earik area
last year.
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•Surprisingly little interest has oeen taken in the
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slow in appearing? Aghai Smad, an employee of the Anglo-
Iranian Oil CCo, is understood to be standing for Dlzful, but no
^ Arab candidate has appeared for P5usangird and the Ahwaz advocate,
Waeir-i-Nesami, who proposes tc represent the Arabs there, has
visited the constituency,
(18) Aghai Sultani, the Behbahan deputy, though so far
unopposed, made a popular gesture by persuading the amnieh to
return Rials 4000 which they had taken from some Arabs of
Busaneh in return for not revealing the discovery of smuggled goods
(19) With reference to para 15 of the last Ahwaz diary, the
^■depressior^by the further curtailment of his jurisdiction,
' }Having lost Khtrramshahr and Abadan during the last year, he has
;as)ncw been ordered to withdraw the police from Andimeshk, ghadegan
•re)and Gach garan. Colonel Albcrz protested that the Andimeshk
;detachment should not be withdrawn but in reply met with the
curtest injunction to obey orders. The Governor-General has,
however, on the representation of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co./
held up line withdrawal of the' police from Gach saran and has
undertaken to help in the restoration of the Andimeshk detachment.
V. Tribal—Bakhtiarl .
(20) ^ Ali Asghar Khan, the emissary of Abol Qassim who was
w 1 th the force that besieged and attacked Izeh, is reporte-d still
to be in the Izeh neighbourhood and to be attempting tc gather
tufangchis from the settled villages in- the neighbourhood of
Masjid-i-nulaiman and Haft Kel.
(21; ^ A source has stated that Abol Qassim had been supported
by sardar Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division. Mohtashem’s family in order that the central
government should be obliged to. give authority to the ,f re spec table”
families for the curbing of Abol Q&osim. He algo pointed out
that whereas Hurtena Quli Khun had been refused permission to
visit his estates in the Dizful area, a year ago, he had now
returned, as a result of the Izeh incident and ether disorders,
as Governor of the Bakhtiari,
VI. Tribal— K nhgilu .
(32) ^ Reports from Behbahan indicate that the Boir Ahmedi
| took a larger part in the overwhelming of the Persian force
I at Semirun than at first appeared. In addition to Abdullah Khan
Zarghampur, it appears that Mchd. Hussain Tahery was present
with a large following, as well as Ali and Vali Panizadeh with
their own parties. Rais-utr-fujjar has expressed the strongest
apprehension about the possible repercussions in Khuzistan,
and, without being aware that Alavi and Majid Khan Bakhtiari were
supposed to have been involved, volunteered the information that
the results would be doubly dangerous should the German offensive
on the Eastern Front meet with any success.
(23) With reference to para 19 of the last Ahwaz diary, the
Anglo-Iranian Oil Go. have now realised the disadvantages of the
convoy system on the Gach Saran road. (They have'received the ’
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