Coll 28/120 ‘Persia. Ahwaz – Consular diaries.’ [‎179r] (358/669)

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and the Acting Consul-General he has no 7 r agreed
return to Beh'behan with Mr* Solomon next week,
is arc posing zo take personal charge ci‘ tne .Train
collections in”the Burujird - Xhorramaoad area, and hopes to
obtain any surplus from that area to feed Khuzistan.
the Ac L 0 r
however to
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(Zl) < in order to conserve the Government supplio^ of
grain ; the Head of the Finance Dept, has r cently permitted
five out of tl\e 60 bakeries in the tov/n to function as 'free '
bakeries- They will be allowed to purchase wheat on the
black market and may then only make pure wheat bread, vrm.ch
must be sold at a rate
the wheat, whi
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direct ratio to the black market
price of the wheat, wmen gives onem a. reasonaole_ prof.to .Fc
is considered that a certain number of people will be prepared
to pay the higher price for the pure wheat bread, thereby
reducing the consumption of Government bread- Mr^olomon has
hoped to bring up the percentage oi suen -nee barteriss muen
higher, even to the extent of 1/3 of the total number ;f
bakeries; but the whole wheat position is ^o dubious fer the
near future that it is impossible to foresee whether tie
scheme will be successful* .at present however, the fi e
bakeries are v/orking satisfactorily.
IV- HAILY/AY n <,
(12. e The Commission of Inspection of Railways arrived
in ihwaz during the period under review- They are sa:d to be
particularly interested in a contract made to supply (inter
to the railway- although merchants in Xhorramshahr mace a
tenier at a lower price- the contract is said to have been
ira* i
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given by the Director of the southern section, Mr
is cf course of Iraqi origin; to Jews in Basrah,
ruiiours against Irani are that he will shortly be 1 -awing
Ahuaz and going to America (his son has already got h.s bags
packed for'the same destination), end that being very pro-
American, he is trying to remove railway employees whe show
pra-British sentiments 0
Vo jiDADin*
( 13 ) , The Ahwaz Civil hospital quote 3 casesof Typhus
in Ahwaz (1 death), 4 in Dizful”and 3 in Hindijan- anc also
3 eases (i death) of smallpox in nhwaz.
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(It). Barly in the month, three thieves attempted to
rob the lunerican Tyre Dump in the hills east of Ahwaz One
was shot dead and another wounded, while the third goi away
with one tyre.
(15). Refer nee paragraph IT of the March diary,
Kaseruni and the others arrested with him have now been
released on bail- It is rumoured that Falsafi, the Pcosecutor
of the Court of Appeal, has received ample largesse ir. this
connection.
(17). Reference paragraph 14 of the March diary, the
investigations of the examining magistrate into the tieft
case of the 21 UHCC tyres continues, but it seems little
/likely