Coll 28/120 ‘Persia. Ahwaz – Consular diaries.’ [‎199r] (398/669)

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Disarmament o:'” the Chahar Larjg Mamivand has •‘not made
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any progress• Reports from Kuhgalu territoryJLpdicat^ that
the pro-Government Vice in increasing jfc. strbnfttft and 1
cohesion, ^ B&niaa-i. .Riding in the vicinity of They'dil-fields
" a '^ oeased.o In l/arJPptan the quarrel ‘between Ali Mohammad
Ghazaniam. and h.in cousin, Amanullah, seems to have come to a
hwao., and hotn. sides have Been summoned to Khorramabad.
Operations against•the Arabs in Khuzistan have ceased and
mosu of the troops engaged have returned to Ahwaz; a few
h&ve been left in the area to’ round up robber bands which
hre still at large.
A ~ BAKKTIARI
„ Reference para 2 of Diary No„10„ ' By the end of
«ne montn raiding by the Bahmai througn <Taneki territory
..ad cease#, and. the J&neki Khans have' promised to deny
|as S age to the raiders in future. It appears that the
Bahmais were acoompa/iied by cfaneki tribesmen on their ex-’
jeditionso
'y 4 ., ^ J 3^ eh A y l ' :dj : ^ U - Li Khan Bajul, head of the M#gui section
oi trie vjiahar Lang Mamivand, was ordered by the Persiahs over
% m>nth ago to hand ovej? hi« rifles. Ho ha- a hereditary feud
vi tn .tue i’ ulaavand, and as Major Ail Khan Fuladvand is - now
Jais^i-Intizaniat for the Ali Gudarz airtri©tof the Burujird
governorship, in which territory the Mogul live, he has
refused, to^surrender hir rifles unless his enemies do so.
n..T ls V ted AJ : : : Gudsii ^ during the month accompanied by the
ovex-nor of Burujirco Tne general consensus of official and
Lap .if ic xal opinion was in favour of Mehdi Quli # who, however,
has undoubtedly acted foolishly,
jor Ali Khan Puladvand
ftti.ems ,o ue misusxng• nis position in order eithe v> to drive
Ifehdi Quli. who is the only serious rival to AM' s Lflulnoe
f} ohe jWict, to armed resistance entailing foreiture of
; v 1 f J1 g i ' a '' ldfS and property, or leave him defenceless against
f A b ----auvancs* ±lxe Governor of• Burujird and the sub-
^overnor of Ali Gudarz visited-Mehdi Quli on the 86th July
And received assurances of his obedience to Government. He
• ^oantaina near Ab Bar Ik, southeast of Ali Gudarz,
X.L-A MU xCiiowers, some of whom are from the Bushaq' and'
.la^aqi tribes| only 850 are armed with rifles* Mehdi Quli
^onl .*j.r gcn—.i.aw baoK to Ali Gudarz with the Governor,’ who
/Oxegraphed to Behran asking that operations by the Persian
at Bum-i-Xamar^ in Ferid\in, which were scheduled
°‘- i L ' ne ^uly, should be postponed pending receipt
gi ms report to the Ministry of the Interior. He has also
cecommended, the removal of Major Al? Khan ihiladvand. ’ i
Lui j~ng the month Ma jor Ali Khan Pul ad vand assembled
5 G * m F an y ol Persian infap try ml 850 Garawand and ^ alar vand
^rioesmen, of whom 100 were issued with Brno rifles, in the
wicxnity of Bisheh railway station to operate against the
..a^ivanci sect ton of the Ihiladvr i and the. Abdul vand tribe,
0 aaa ' aX '° f - ,oa a l^-^ge numb er of .livestock from villages west
has
to
of Azna in the spring. The fox *
the.mountainous cotintr,.- south of
claims to have recovered all ‘the
crossed the railway into
Li r.h turan Kuh. Ma jor Pu 1 gdvahd *
looto A large part. However,
/was
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