Coll 28/120 ‘Persia. Ahwaz – Consular diaries.’ [‎202r] (404/669)

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i:\. iviorramabad iiave already made a considerable profit out of
tiiin dispute, and, ap. no doubt they hone to make mere a
final settlement ip doubtful,
a eTeral tribal clashes have occurred lately* A
'.quarrel between tribesmen of the Bo star section of the
tfassanvand ( 0 ilrileh) in the Alishtar district resulted in
a i'i/rht in ^hich rifles were freely used and seven mer .7 ere
killed and five wounded, A number of the +*^ 0 ?
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he nillp in consequence. In Baia£ irj.veh , Aohamua-
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r'usrain than, son of a former chief of t-m Qalavand sectice
of the uirakvand, killed «?ardar, brother of Vasil faen
prenen z chief of the Bash Agha Section, in an att^ ;u^ r.o
regain the tribal leadership. Colonel Wariri and^a^few’eoidi-rs
jv'ere acsputched to investigate. Among tiic Bairanvand a village -
nod.o...jchi w<xS kxlxed and another wounded during an attempt "be
Bairanvand villager^ to recover livestock stolen by anoth-^
section of the tribe.
& ~ A R A B F?
Bn. By the 6th July all the; Mian-ab pheikhp had nubinltted,
and by the middle of the month raont of the Persian feroen had
moved to nhuph, where Brigadier Humayuni met the Chsnaneh
sheikhR, who had been guilty of raids into Iraq. These sheikhs
epenewing the road of martial endeavour trodden so disaptrou^iv*
by their confreres in Mian-Ab chose the path of prudence and
obediently surrendered their loot and a number of rifles. Bv
t.ie end of the month most of the Persian troops engaged in th°s^
operations had returned .to Ahwaz. a few detachments of infantry,
however, have been left to round up robber gang's which are still
large. Brigadier Huma*mni states thAt 615 rifles have been
collected up to the 26th July, of which about 6hO have come
from the Mian-Ab Arabs, and that a large percentage are
British 30? ♦rifles dating from tho last v/ar* This fact caused
a certain Colonel Baqafi, who had been sent down by the Persian
eneral ntafj f,° watch the operations, publicly to insinuate *
01ub that the British had supplied the Arabs
.'ff v^ n the Aian-Ab sheikhs are under arrest and
will, it is said, be court-martialled. Pour of Colonel'T: 0 el ? s
j,. r _ • v 7 : uj. sugar ana rea nave ne:
to ; he Mian ” Ab tribesmen; those sections who were
L b . to f arren ^ r receiving preference. The Arabs have returned
nature, and those round Abu Dasht have entered into
an agreement with the Kauaistan Agricultural Society to^ the
cultivation oil rice over a considerable acreage. 4me ^ouert-
and cattle stolen from villagers have been recovered and ^ "
rrig&dier ilumayuni promises to recover the rest and comp^^e
oAK 1 KK UP r '°K er bandn ‘ If thiR Promise in fuifiliedfthe
If TlTh be considered a rucccsp. When operations started
f coh St thR phenanen h he Beni Turuf ehoiknn nhowed eignr of un-
eapinene, otherwise tnere have been no reperounions Ad the effect
'the tl-h ° le r aS bee ? to rehabilitate Government authority among
^ther tr?b‘ DlBC '? f " ,10n ' ? about disarmament operations against ®
Khnzie+ne 1 ^ 3 7 ry ln P ro frees. There have been/repercueEions in
to -T® ? e T'? o: th0 arrest and internment in Iraq of
Sheikh Chassib a?id his brother Abdullah.