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hap ippued a notice to thip effect.
Wheat collection in the area ip late, "but phould he good.
(27) In Qulpaigan and Khumain collection and the giving of
undertakings are proceeding patipfactorily. In Khonsar all
applies of wheat, Government or otherwise, have been cut off
owing to the confused situation regarding the* collection of the
surplus of the Kachambu and Gorgeh districts of Isfahan from
which Kh£nsar is usually supplied, but for the surplus of which
some landlords have this year made contracts with Col. Robert at
Isfahan.
(28) Khorrarnabad,
The late and worse than ordinary Kharobar official
Parud has been relieved.
V, Tribal—Bakhtiari
(29) No news of the arrival of Morteza Quli’s governor^
for the Janiki country has yet been received. Col. Humayuni r s
plans for .. sending a punitive column to the area strongly
supported by Mohammad Ali Khan Khalili and his tufangchis seem
likely to be delayed as a result of the incident at Jaizan.
(see para 32 below)
VI. Tribal—Kuhgilu .
(30) The first week of the month passed very quietly to the
accopaniment of propaganda from Zarghampur f s supporters to the
effect that he had ordered all incidents to cease pending the
consideration of his case by the Persian Government. Khusrow—
compare para 25 of the last diary—received fifty rifles and 3500
rounds of ammunition as weifel as presents of sugar and tea from ^
Col. Huraayuni and went off to prove himself by expelling Zarghampur T s
supporters from Dil. Musuvvi, who would clearly rather sea
Zarghampur liquidated than become the strongest pro-government^
influence in the Xuhgilu by making his peace, put up another plea
for British assurances to Khusrow on the grounds that when the
Persian government regained its strength Khusrow might be held
responsible for offences in fact committed by his brother. The
latest news indicates that Khusrow was successful in taking Dil,
but is no himself besieged there by reinforcements from Sarghampuro
(31) The attempt to bring the Teibi tribe into the anti-
Zargharapur bloc had also gone badly. The chief of the Teibi
Ganasiri had demanded so large a number of rifles as the price
of adherence that it became quite impossible tc treat with him.
Teibi raids on Do Dungeh followed quickly, but were repelled
after the raiders had lost one man killed, another captured, and
two rifles. On 7th September the Teibis returned in force and -
according to Mussavi carried off 1500 sheep, 300 cattle and
moveable property to the value of a million rials(i) 32
(32) On the night of 9th September a highly obscure incident
occurred. Mohd. Ali /Chan Khalili, the hitherto highly trusted^
Behinai chieftain, is reported to have seized Rezavi, the landlord
of Jaizan, in defiance of the laws of hospitality, obtained treache
rous entry to the fort at Jaizan where he disarmed the amnieh and
Rezavi’s tufangchis, and carried off all the grain and cattle to be
found. Mohd. Ali Khan certainly had a claim on a ohare of the
crops of Jaizan and had been gathering men and provisions for the
expedition to Janiki. The stolen cattle and sheep have apparently
since been returned and a further suspicious feature is that in some
previous negotiations over obtaining supplies from the estate cf
Nasseri at c mltanabad the deputy and his men, even on their own
/account