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iiis approach to Khwajeh Mehti Quli, han been replaced by hir?
brother Amir Bahman Khan Ramsam, who is now encamped with ten tents
in the Ghaman Rulian area,
(84) A demonstration of protest against the importunate
activities of a wheat Official, Dr, Arnanpur, who had demanded
the wife of a respected Haji, Abu Talib of Al-i-Godarz, was
-^dispelled to give a show of quiet and peace on receipt of the
news of His Majesty’s Consul-General’s approach to the town.
Dr, Amanpur is causing much unrest and one landlord alone
complains that 10,000 tumang have been demanded from •' •
him. The landlord does not m nd paying the recognised fee to
the permanent official, but to have to support a Tehran
parasite gets his gall,
VI, Tribal—Kuhfillu,
(35) With reference to para 26 of the last Ahwaz diary,
Khusrow, brother of Abdullah Khan Zarghampur. met Colonel
Humayuni a:id accompanied him to Eehbehan/where conversations
are understood to have followed the traditional lines of the"
penitent c«iiei oain vowing perpetual devotion to the government
if he were given sufficient rifles to -Drove himself, and the*
Persian representative demanding proof' off the Khan’s . ability to
produce results before risking rifles with him. The convert
sations inevitably remained somewhat in the air pending the
arrival of General Jehanbani, Khusrow in the meantime was retorted
to have become very restive in Behbahan, and the Raig-ut-?uijar
faction increased their efforts.proportionately to oersuade
the British authorities to give some assurance" to Khusrow,
l26) On 24th August Colonel Humayuni rerouted that
Zarghampur had reached Pilli ( a suitable advance base fo?
operations against Behbahan) -with a considerable force and
chat a reconnaissance party of Zarghampur ? s sawar-* Irod be-n
in the Tang~i~Takab,
(Z?) General Jehanbani appears to have been ( very reasonably)
too concerned with the condition of his men and other specifically
military problems to plunge into the devious intrigues of the
Kuhgilu, Probably, too, he was concerned with a u biggeu*/; 'tq
stated ^ha o he had received a ietter from Zax*ghampur agkinr
for an interview. As it would have taken three days for
Zarghampur to get down to Do Gumbedan, General Jehanbani said
tnat he would fly back again for the interview as soon as his
other duties permitted,
l28) With reference to the withdrawal of the Persian
military garrison from Do Gumbedan reported in para 25 of tie
lagt Ahwaz diary, a masterly compromise between the danger of
exposing a hundred Persian soldiers’ rifles to the tribes and
the risk of leaving the aerodrome and Anglo-Iranian Oil Companv
pimping station entirely unprotected was a achieved by stationing
at Do Gumbedan a very much smaller number of gendarmes. Tie
gendarmes, however, have now been moved and the barracks at Do
Gumbedan occupied by a detachment of Skinner'p Horse, and Rarha v ^
Humayuni wins the day,
VII, Tribal—Ar ab,
l 3 ?) , _ With reference to para 33 of the last Ahwaz diary,
Golonel Humayuni on 18th August arrested Radun, the brother of
Rheikh Jabbar of Zargan, on the grounds that so far* from nroducinu
Jabbar and the four government rifles taken by him, he had actually
been sheltering his brother, Zabberi, another brother, ip- in the
meantime attempting to snow his devotion {l) to the government by
promig^ing to collect before the end of Rhahrivar a portion of the
isfhsat which he ought to hage delivered in fu.ll two monthe ago.
(30)
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