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pome 16 Government rifles for a lung time a He .^eemp to be
shooting his neck out at Bala Rub and Major ^mith has asked
the R*e 0 q c to remove him. The matter is still under in
vestigation,,
(13
'j » The tribef] on the hill section of the line are
coming in to buy their rations. r lhe distribution is having
jan excellent effect, and so far no abuses have been re
ported. It is reported that other tribes are asking why
they cannot be so favoured*
( 14 )’ The appointment of Brigadier Guishayan vice
Brigadier Irayani is reported. Iravani co-operated well
?r , ith the British and his money grabbing v/ere
tne Cctu.se, it is staned, of his being withdrawnTj/proclivities
/'is
Ba khtiaris tan,
Ahwaz on
n’h
Bahman son of Murteza fuli Than came to
oout the 12th and visited r, arhang Humayuni pre
sumably in connection with the Janeki disarmament*
( ls ); TaUG-lii' ^ome thousand Persian Troops have arrived at
the Rud Zara as a threat to the Janeki end Bahmai to deliver
tneir arms to Government* This is having the required
effect so far as disarmament is concerned "and Isfardian
Assiani has come in to ask my advice, and also to deliver a
letaer from Mahmad Khan Kiani to r, arhang Humayuni,
Asplan! says that the Janeki are a Bakhtiari
tribe and should therefore be treated like the Bakhtiari
that is to say allowed to live as a tribe under a tribal’
leader, and that to send Persian troops against them is a
return to the old days of oppression* On the other hand, he
pays, li they are not to be treated as Bakhtiari then they
saould be left alone t® deal with the Persian Government and
the inf In-: nee of Murteza Quli Khan n®t used against them,
. ,. Kiani in his letter has asked ^arhang Humayuni
if, m rue event of a satisfactory number of arms being de
livered, Persian troops will invade Janeki territory, a
wrnten reply was given by Humayuni saying that the Persian
Government want the Janeki to live in comfort and peace and
that The trices should hand over the rifle° at the Pud Zard,
. ^ J have returned a reply that the matter is an^
r. e ? Uri °T tne Oil Fields area and that it is necessary
ao •••am 1-111 thi^o If this can be arranged at the border of
tne Janeki territory so much the better, but that the dis
armament is a Persian Government nr tter in which I cannot
interfer,
■'P r? arlashkar Jahanbani has issued a notice to
me tribes of the south calling on them to give up their
arms,
Tt appears that ^arhang Parsitabar did not go
oo -oili on due date, but has since met Abdullah Zarghampur
who has handed over a "mall quantity of the ^ernirural arm-,
m re turn he is requesting the Kalantarship of the Kuh famu,
(iO), Arab* Barly in February a lorry was looted near ^u—
angrrd and one ^of the passengers, a re-ident of Boston,killed,
f e ^^hi ..arux r neikhs together with a Gendarmerie Officer
investigated the case and it appears that the leader
Felahayeh of the Beni oaieh living near Howizehf ft was
agreed that the Gendarmerie Officer should call on the Beni
Paleh to hand over the culprit, but, it is understood, they
have wriggled out of this, ^
(20).
Oapt. Bush of the American Army visited
/Bo-tan
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