Coll 28/120 ‘Persia. Ahwaz – Consular diaries.’ [‎232r] (464/669)

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thi^ p05*1 1 and it in to be hcn^d that the Fuladwand intriRuen
will oome to nothing.
(1§). Ahwaz, norae *ign.p of acxivitity have come from the
Municipality; the asphalting of the main street has beer;
extended; and the enormous potholes which provided one of
the hazards round the main maiaon have been filled c
(l--)o Justic e ^ Fatemi's appeal has now been heard, and the
sentence has been, reduced to 1 year and 3 months„ hna^evi
has said that he did not really think he had been justified
in giving- even that sentence on the available evidence*
Fatemi ir von out of prison on a 300,000 rial guarantee, and
la .;.v: -c to do his best to get this sentence quashed by
tne av:' Aoritj.es in Tehran*
V r 'v ° _ _ .Kazerunihs case came up for a hearing, but the
eca:v f ‘ dec.,..ared that the evidence was conflictjrg and farther
; .- - ; :-i gat ions should be made; the case was therefore
ad yec-redo This sounds pretty omin#Us 0
_ /9 ,, 0 . _ _ The old case of the U*X.C«C. tyres (see para
‘t 1 ' dt’ Diary 7) has still not been satisfactorily settled*
'■0 fa n the only person who has been made to suffer is a
Britinh subject,
FLTJ CAT I OF
(14). °he Director of Fducation is reported to
If]xend opening a boarding sch#(iJ in Ahwaz* Those who are
acmi 0 :,ea will be expected to a period of teaching subse—
q. .ien biy* in view of the distressing shortage of teachers,
such a move is most welcome*
HEALTH .
(l^i* Three deaths from smallpox and 1 from dysentery
are reported from Dizful* The private hospital which was
opened a couple of years ago there, largely as a result of the
^f*tbrts 01 Lt, Col. Legatte Woo'’ , seems tc be in pretty poor
shape. The.Government doctor is only able to give a limited
amount of time each day to its attention and there is f# one
competent to do surgical operations* The Government hospital
still remains half finished* Col* Wood had reported last
April that Hiais 650,000 has been contributed by the Govern-
men o tcomp.j_ete it, but either the money wap never forth—
coming, it was diverted to other ends*
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cut-tnroatf; have now been removed from the Ahwaz prison and
are understood to be on their way to Bandar Abbas, to the grea
relief 4 or the Ahwaz police.
v47) o ina imeshk o Two of the men who held up an /nericar. lorry,
Jose All and Amir Khan (see para 20 of Diary r T o* 11), have
been brought by Field Security to Ahwaz, where they'have been
handed over to the Persian Military Police,
to request that they be tried by Persian Mil
third bandit is under arrest at Khorramabad;
still at large*
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-'e ( ..Ux o £ficer, Dorud, has expre^.^ed the opinion that il 5
Tudeil leaders there were not nes-rous of giving tro’-bfe and
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