Coll 28/120 ‘Persia. Ahwaz – Consular diaries.’ [‎296r] (592/669)

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AHWAZ DIARY NO, 12
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let to 1 5th Ju l y, l94 f
(ij, Tne Aoting Vice Consul ,^uk ut
^or Buruoirn on tne 6 th and returned on the 10 th.
(2 Jo Sir Tfil!iam .Groft, oT the 'Minister of State f s
Office, Cairo? arrived at Ahwaz on the 8 th July and left the
fo n1 owing day by air to Bagndad. He had visited Abadan and
}Ias j id i gul e iman.
(3). Air Goirmodcre Rur 4 ciman, Air* Attache Teheran,
arrived in an Anson on the 11th and " eft for Fie^d^., and
subsequently Teheran, on the next day.
SOVIET 1 INT E R ESTS
The Soviet Gpnsui for KliUs is tan, Mr-
Alexander Miroshin, ^eft by train for Teheran on the 8 th.
He explained that lie had been transferred from- An was to
Kermanshah, and he made various enquiries about conditions
at tne latter place. His native iOace being somewhere north
of tne Urals, he expressed himself as very pleased to hear that
Kermanshah was a cooler place than A-hwaz. He- seemed also to
nave heard ax' the Kurds though he did not Know much about them.
P0 r ISH
(5 J. . The news that His Ma jesty ■ e Govsr*ranent had
recognised the Warsaw Government was received by the Polish
colony here? numbering about l.oucn. with great sorrow and
bitterness^ They even refused to go to dances given by British
troops to winch they were invited. Ho doubt they will get over
it but at present it is quite useless to try to persuade them
that there is any good, in tne Warsaw Government or that
H* MicKo 1 ajczych is anything but a traitor.
SECUR ITY
( 6 J. On the evening of Wednesday the lith July
burguiars broke into Ho. 1 Bungalow of the A.I.O.G. and stole
a number of clothes belonging to Mr. Powder? inC'udiig a 1 .! his
trousers. Fortunate ’ 1 y he was ah ' 1 e to borrow some for wearing
next day? and he hopes that 0 o n « A 1 borz wi ' 1 ' 1 fuifi " 1 his promise
to find the missing clothes at once. As the head Police office
is next door to the BungeM ow yt is easy
shows signs of acute embarrassment.
BRITISH MI T ITARY INTEREST
>o see why Go 1 » Alborz
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on tne 12 tn Go 1 , one'
relinquished, coram ana of Anwaz Sub Area? oh
United Kingdom for release. Having been .
years? he wi 1 1 be mucii missed here.
RA IT WAYS
■ R* Boyd? ],[o Go t
“'caving for the
.n this ar^a for over two
( 8 J- SA^EGAR? Director of the Southern Division of
the I* S.He went to Xhorramshahr and returned on the 14th.
SECo. PUL DEPT.
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