Coll 28/120 ‘Persia. Ahwaz – Consular diaries.’ [‎106r] (212/669)

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.(1) Mr. A.C. Garnon of the Colonial office arrived in -livaz
on 18th July and left for Tehran on the rane evening to attend a
conference on anti-locust work.
(2) Jiieut-Colonel "Ta«h, I. f and a.jor Pownon, P.A.i’.A. :a^ra,
arrived on Ibth July to nerve on the coi>urtittee w ich ir to ^ubiriit
raonnainnila11 nns on the future of t.he hhuziptan Agricult ural iroject.
Mr. . D. Garbutt, ...aeager of the jatafiypn ptatn, joinevf the a on
23r< July, and re.iiained until 39tn July! ,
(3) he Bern Sanderson and Maclean ai*rived in >Jiwoz on 21rt and
left for Tehran on 23rd July to take up appointments under the
ritish Council Tehran.
(4) ..r. D. Jicka, formerly of the British Council Cairo,
arrived in Ahwaz on 27th and left for Tehran on 29th July to take
up an appointment under the m organisation.
(5) Mr. Vice-Conn il ooller visited Jaizan in the ar n valley
to enquire into reports of hostile tribal concentrations there and
returned to i.hv^az on 31st July.
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II. ove.ients of uersian Officials . N I o
III. econo lie.
(7) with reference to para 15 of the last Ahwaz diary, contra
over the bresr market was reintroduced in Ahwaz town on 24th July.
Twenty-five tons of grain are issued each day to the bakers at a co
of uiais 4000/- per ton and bread in retailed at Hals 4 per ;ilo.
The rersiat authorities were careful to accumulate stocks of flour
before reintroducing the control aiu> ^th a view to rfMlstabllshlng
public confidence, have necn issuing both larger quantities and a
better quality of grain than they can possibly hope to laintain. 1
'arrest of Hiv/az’ lead in g hoarders (compare para 13 of the la-t diary
has al~o b?en a sal; tary example to the bakers and petty officials^
Ity n ve found t.he bTet >ply so 1 icra tl r
a source of income. Whatever the cause, the supply has so far beer
excellent: thr bread has not contained more than 10 barley ( i.e.
’•pure wheat** according to Cnuzistan standards) and there has been r j
congestion or r iortage in the bread s iopp.
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ful:
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The eoi trolled 'narket
. r.OO .1$
with ten " ons of grai r w;: 1 ch is
would suggest that the estimate
are, however, according to
iv. } in ful has not been very success-
thfit bhs town T s bakeries cannot de§J—
imated dally consumption. This
is far too high* Two landlorcu
up the
O.L.O.*s report* ready to put
money for a central ba :ery capable of dealing with ten tons daily.
(9) The prospects of supplying the towns of Ahwaz aid : : tor ram-
shahr with grain until the next harvest are becoming gloomy, train _
prices in Iraq ana Kuwait have not fallen and there can be little horn
(of getting any uoro undertakings in Kliuzistan except on a negligible
scale* The undertakings *0 far given amount to 14000 tnis odd* About
half this aiaount is required for feeding the towns of Behbehan^Ram
ilormuz, ^hu* itar and bizful, leaving 7000 tons for Ahwsz uiorram^heijr
and the Persian forces* Ahwaa, Lhorramehahr and tue Persian forcer,
however, arc said to require in all so.ue 11,000 tons, of grain per
year, so that even if all the undertakings are implemented a
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