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ixoverment rifle given to the villagers for p:*6teotion v/aB .
stolen and a villager was killed. This crime also has been
laid to tne door of the Hassanvand, who are noted thieves.
One of their sub-tribes is at'present in revolt against the
tribal bakhshdar, Seyyid Va* 1 i Khan.
\ ivhuzistan .
(21;* Reference para 19 (b; of Diary. Ho, lu. As Sheikh
Barraq of the Bavi tribe and his son, and Seyyid Uussuf of '
tne Beni fainixn Had snown no iuc n inatioxi to oo-operate with
. the Arslan or British authorities in tracing those responsible
for the attack on tne A«X*C»C» car, and merely used the
opportunity to taKe money off the tribes, they have been
arrested by the Persian autnoritiys* A man named iiannoum son
of aII Rashid, wno was bei ieved to be the leader of the -gang
responsible, was arrested and brought to Ahwaz, but the driver
of the car failed to recognise him and he was,released. An
A*!*0*C* guard was disarmed by a gang of Taib& tribesmen in
the Pasanun area, a notorious Arab robber named zuwaimel,
head of tne Ayayeshah section of the Beni Tamim, who had for
long defied the authorities, has happily been disposed of
by one of his relatives during a family quarrel#
• (22;. Reference para 20 of Diary No.lu. On the 18th
the (governor-ueneral received a letter from the Minister of
the Interior which he took to mean that Kaaermii should be
.released. As ne was due to leave for Tehran the following
day oe decided to suspend action, Pendiiig fnrtner instructions
from Tehran the'Acting Governor-'leneral has made no move to
release Kazeruni, who oonee up for trial on the 6th August.
In the meanwhile, the -/ub! 10 Prosecutor, Naraghipur, is doing
his utmost to get down on paper as much evidence as possible
for future use to incriminate the Governor-General ahd the
Chief of Police as having violated the misul* 1 ied purity of .
Persian Justice in order to pander to thefaritish. He openly
threatened the Chief of Police with the horrid fate which, he
maintained, overtook the Governor and Chief of Pol ice of
Haaadan, who 1ikewise attacked more importance to Allied
needs than to the letter of the Persian law# In the Dresent
case, both the Governor-Genera! and Colonel Alborz haVe proved
very co-operative, and it is desirable that they should not -
suffer on that account# Pa tern i has appealed .against hie
sentence of two years imprisonment, and the corrupt judicial
authorities are doing their best to see that the appeal
succeeds.
Reference para IB of Ahwaz Diary for tue period . .
fsth •* £9th j^ebruary tt,Aiticen, convioted of robbing the
fiaperial. Bank at .inwuz and sentenced to four years imprison- *
Ment, is being transferred to prison in Tehran#
fVLULQAJ PARTIES.
• The .linan Parastan, istiqlai, Azadi Kliwahan and
ysi«ar-parties have united to form a Mihan party, which the
leaders claim to be the “national front” which all patriotic
Persians have long been awaiting. The managing committee in •
Tehran consists of tne following Dp.Sanjabi, brother of -
t , jC ?? a / Sanjabt ( Azadj - Khwanan;; Abdul Vali Azad (istiaHal
Zt al:L -° a ^BtanJ; Shuja-ud-Din Sriafa (Mihan Parasta
-i-Qbal (Paikar;, Their aims are the government
or the oom^try by a party having the support of the nation: •
order ana equity in the distribution of wealth; payment to
everyone of a wage in proportion to his vzorkp work for all ;
protection of tne rights of peasants and workers; tne support
^Xigion, wnion must be purged of superstition;. Government
care for the family, the health of the nation, and the increas*
/of the