Coll 28/120 ‘Persia. Ahwaz – Consular diaries.’ [‎188r] (376/669)

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puhpeqii-jnt import of about 3000 tonr
for pe.r.u will also be n cepMary. Ce
Khuziptan^ a a hap C&pt«Nahai) let *
III. lUDALTHo
(8) o Belibshan hap •been suffering from a fairly
severe outbreak of typhoid, and the inhabitants appealed by
telegram .to the r thah for the^ despatch of additional medical
assistance. The^epidemic is now paid to be dying down«
I Vo KU^rr.[A.”a 0
(9)o Our Consular colleagues have been • zealous i:
vis j- ting various parts of their district during the month.
They have also seen ou'
ihooting in the Dasht-
■ iiishan are
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that thi
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pits of the Vice-Consul to Ham Hormuz, where the
■ Gendarmerie is a Tabriz.!, has given rise to a rumour
y are trying to organise the Cargaran in that town.
.ve also been rumours of their opening a Vice-Consulate
in Beh!
than fuiidlling one of the first duties' of a consular officer;—
getting first hand knowledge of his di«trict. Most of the
reports that we receive from Persians about the Hussians are
obviously designed to sow mistrust of our Allies. This is a
favourite Persian game, and reached the peak of absurdity
recently when the Chief of Gendarmerie told me in strict
confidence about a story, which, he averred, the Russians
had put out in the 1)asht~i~Mishan to- the effect that I had
been sent here with the express purpose of causing an ^.rab
rising, so that Khuzistan should be separated from Persia
and i n g o x a ido r a L g d .l ix J. .m y.
V. TPIRAL.
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(10) o B akhtiari . Bakh'tiari tribes have now all moved up to
their summer quarters. Morteza Cpuli Khan, for the first time
in many years, made the .journey from Izeh via the Ram-i~
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He was accompanied by the A.L.O.Ahwaz
The former ??eoorts that while harteza
througnou'
Bakntiari
(HyU K nh galu. The tangled web of Kuhgalu politics has been
fur the i* ravelled by the offer of the hand of the sister of
MohdoAli Xhalili (Bahmai) to Abdullah Khan Carghampur, al-
tliough it had previously been promised to Kerim Khan Alla-
dine Balnnai. This is causing disunity within the ranks of
the Bahmai * Zarghampur f s efforts at Kxihgalu unity have,
met with success: he is believed to
however, on
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hav
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to mil
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on
r Khosrow,
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hat he had died from
r s that he is recovering,
mere nave oeen various alarms and excursions
A spate of lies, rumours and alarmist reports,
s efforts by the Persian authorities to
onsidered action has made the work of
ts and wrongs of the matter particularly
ul-General new to the- district.
, , . in the month the Governor-General and
BrigoHumayuni again tried to get British backing for a general
disarmament of the Arab tribes in the Miyan Ab. ~ The Acting
,/C on sul - Ge n e .r al