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yet ccr/vpiete, uut it io thought that the ro'
the Bavi or- Beni Tamim tribes 0 Three ciayp prior- to thi«
incident -300 nheep going to Abadan v/ero carried off in the
eame area o
(o)« On the night of the 83/24 bane an A100 contractor'« camp
situated about 17 miles on the Agha Jari wide of Jihor- Dorak
on the new pipe line was attacked and looted by armed Arabs.
The Persian military are responsible for the security of
T/his 11x10 0
(d). On the night of the 25th June an American truck vas
fired on north of Andimewhk and an American Jeep v/as Tired on
15 miles soutn ofu^ndirneshk on the main road.
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employee was travelling was held up on the pipe-line by eight
Arabs, of whom four were armed with rifles. Pive shots were
fired at the car. ^he European was robbed of 1000 rials
and the two Persian drivers of SCO rials each* The tyres of
the car were removed and carried off* Investigations are
from
(20). • The failure of the judical authorities *,o punish
adequately wealthy racketeers has undoubtedly had a bad
effect on security generally. Efforts made to induce the
Ahwaz courts to mend their ways appear to have had sons effect.
Pat ami (see Diary 5 & 6, para 10, and Diary 9, para 4; has
been sentenced to two years imprisonment for making inproper
use of Iranian Government tyros and being in illegal possession
of Allied property. Kazeruni (see Diary 7, para 16, and
Diary 9, para 4) has been put back into jail and
said,
will shortly be brought to trial. A dealer named I'aleh has
been arrested and imprisoned on a charge of trading ir. copper
sheets stolen fporn the railway between Khorramshahr and Ahwaz.
It is hoped that this unusual activity by the courts, together
with the issue by the Governor-General of a proclamation
warning the public that persons found in illegal possons-ion
of Allied property will be prosecuted and punished, may
effect some reduction in the theft and pilferage of <\llied
property.
(2-1). The judicial authorities have also taken action
undid er the new an t i - pro f i t eo r i ag laws and .the Manager and
Accountant of the Ahwaz water supply company were sentenced
to receive 200 lashes 'at four public floggings of fifty
lashes each for attempting to raise the water rates of the
town, by i00/ 9 They were released or: bail and after receiv
ing the first fifty lashes bolted to Tehran, where they are
nursing their posteriors and loudly complaining against the
brutality of the Ahwaz judiciary.
PO LIT IGAI# PAItT I E G >
(22) o The Kargaran party is making little progness in
•Ahwaz, and it Jo ranch in Behbehan is said to be slowly lying.
Falahati (see Diary 9, para 3) returned to Ahwaz from-Tehran,
was arrested by the police and sent under police escort to
Burujird, - his appointed place of exile. The leaders of the
iJiwaz branch are reported to be in Tehran. name perturbation
was aroused, in the timid hearts of the local officials by the
son of the Director of Customs, who announced his intention
of starting a branch of the- Tudeh party. The Director of
Customs was sent for by the Governor-General and told v.o re
strain his offspring,‘who left for Tehran shortly after.
R/lILWAY^
(23) c Trains leaving for the north! have been very
crowded and the railway administration complain that the
rolling atock allotted to them is insufficient for the humber
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