Coll 28/120 ‘Persia. Ahwaz – Consular diaries.’ [‎109r] (218/669)

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ingenious forger operating fro .i Dizful han recently brought oi J
very profitable traneaction which could never have been atte.i jted
without collar ion on the part of the Tiank’e ewployeee or Icnowledge
of their extreme slacknee^: the forger nought in Dizf d a draft on
Phiraz for j^ial^ 170 and altered the place of payment to bhvaz and
the ano\mt payable to xal^ 70,000 (the altorationr in the nr-ian
are fairly wimple): coneicierinr that the amount payable ir typed
perforating machine, in a genuine draft an< the forg^<
^'not, the fact that payiient o v the draft war obtained in
" ce. tai Lj de.aandr explanation.
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(19; iewe of the Bakiitiari reacuing Khuzirtan during the
fortnight under review her been wlraost nil# It In intorestihg to
note meanwhile with reference to warnings againet the ^rerpcetable'
B khtiaria, (compare pars 21 of the lart Ahv-a i di.nry) that the
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to ►bol
and
ter. ip offered bj the nov; governor of the Bt thtiari
Anght r 1 ave tueir pt^wer nniiiipaired and appear to offer no guarantee
agaiftrt future iucareio p. into t ie relatively pettier areaq.
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(20) The appreheneior of the rerriun authoritier about poerible
reperc of the a dira.rter r d fever
pitca dur the fortnight# Lionel dunayani returned t az by
piano from Te/xran on 19th July and immediately attempted, on the
ptrength of ’’inptructionp already or their way from Tehran*, to
perpuaue the British military author.!tieq to ta;:e ove re^pouqibili-
ty for the protection of the iiehbahan—(>acn f?aran roac. or alterna
tively the Do Gumbati an——Gach Sei e# To ad(. '• go fi s , tiie
uravx faction in iiohba.Uaji, which in interested in acq un ig
maximugi possible forces— whether Persian or ritinn— in the
district, be to un to pu.> ; of- t the ii -miuent possibility of an a ■ t
one of tiie Anglo-Iranian oil Go. centres, while the
section, w-^icii is interested in disorder and *»trongl„
Abdullah 'nan Zargharapur, circulated any rumour which
ted to cause alpferr.i and cicspoudency in TeiiboUa ♦
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A series of raids on the settled areas—rar i at this
year— were attributed at first to the >oir /vhueas and
appeared to lend weight to the Persian authorities’ esti u.te of the
situation. r> S5th July a party of fifty saware e.Merges fro.i the
T n> -i-Ta;cab, which i~ the nornal route between Behba mn and the
oir Ahmet;, country, and raided cattle fro.a the village of .an^rieh
at thf foot of the Tang. M the following ( ay, a similar party
raided one of the villages of bo Jungeh— an estate belougi-g to
the usavis on the Behbahan plain— and carried off cattle and the
brother of the kaoxhoda, but were driven off when the^ attu?fiMteu to
raid another Villa, i the same estate, the followi g day, ten
labourerjgs cutti -.g vooo i or tin uiglo- irania* il □. on arun
opposite Jaizu i thirty miles downstreaiu were captured by a band of
fifty horsemen and forced to act as guioer; the caotivf q reported
ttiat their captor:, were joined by another body of fifty ^awors who
had x sacked the village of Ghai;i-i- ezarn, between ' lib.hian arid
J eigen, and were about to ettacl ghc fari, and ift ; lan.
be robbers involved in the incidents of 26th and 27th July have
later been identified not as heir /dimedp but as Tell is, anc: it has
not yet been established that tne Boir Ah. :ed ffarhadi gunme:. -have
bee . :»lved in any recent incident. * Is
well with the rejperte^vieit t L 1 — t e headquarters of the
i oir Ahmed ^ardsiris— -of ..ohame.c' lupqair harghami, the leader of
the Teibi a.rmsiris. (The story of Abdullah hf. . c? . ■ ;
arrival in frill— a circMmstarce which at
could o ily iiave a sinister significance—
confusion over the faiuily names of the two khans.
this ti
s proba
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It would, hewev. be foolish to deny t iat the tr
success at So il run hap given a most undepirable fiiip to
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