Coll 28/120 ‘Persia. Ahwaz – Consular diaries.’ [‎299r] (598/669)

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ho distribution of cloth has been made, and the
tribution of tea and sugar for three months was
days ago« Formerly that distribution used to tike --SkWi. 1
monthly 0
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( 11 )* According to a report received from; the Airva^ '
branch of the Imperial Bank of Iran, there is lively interest
among merchants and others in British products bach.as rumps,
water meters, electrical applianc/es and so on, y TheT 5)4& a
branch of the bank is therefore writing to England for cata- '
logues, and terms of business for some of their customers.
(12). Business during the past month has been quiet
except in rice and yarn. Bice has been passing through in
some quantity to Iraq and Syria. Yarn is apparently being
smuggled to Iraq. The last week of the month"showed some
lively activity in sugar.
PERSIAN MILITARY.
(13). Br i g a d i e r- Ge n e r a 1
amongst other things with the
Hiat Baud! clahft, centring in
troops under the Commander of
Saif, occupied the fort. The
been so serious as was at one
to have any idea how to settle
Humayuni has been occupied
dispute between the Liravi and
Hissar Fort. A company of
the Behbehan Brigade, Col.Par
dispute does not seem to have
time thought, but no one seems
it.
TRIBAL
(14) . Reports liave come in ®f more caravan robbing at
Tul Bazun, near Masjid—i—Sulaiman, attributed to the ever
unruly Allah-Dini section of the Bahmai.
BDRUJIRB ^/ISIT.
(15) . I stayed at Burujird from the 17th to the 96th
July and endeavoured to get to know all the local personal
ities. With the active help of the governor. All Moulavi-
zadeh, I met a large number of them. I also went to KLoman—
abad to see the Governor there, Moii»in Af|pham and the 0, Q.
troops, Col.Mir Hussein Hashemi. The last named seems tc be
in effective control of most of the security arrangements
of the province oi Lunstam he informed me that everything
was very quiet, more especially now that the two Ghazanfari'
trouble-makers ^>i.li Muhammad Ghazanfari the Governor of hilfar
and his cousin Amanullah Ghazanfari. Governor of Tehhan ) had
been packed oil go Tehran. The Governor of Burujird volunteered
the opinion that Burnlira had done pretty well out of the
war, and uhis may well be true, though there are numbers o*'*
very poor people and the town is extremely dirty. The Airs
are certainly armed to some extent, in fact they ha^e n-ver
realiy been disarmed. One of them told me that he thought
100,000 Lurs must have left the province in one way or anether
during Reza Shah’s stern rule, but some of them have come back.
Political activity was not prominent. The brother
of Seyyid Zia is at Burujird, but the most active oropagandist
for the 1 Iradeh-i-Milli” party seemed to be an ex-Colonel of
Gendarmerie, Reza Quii Arghun, once known as ’’Numreh Yek ' 1
because he passed ail his examinations in the ton place. The
Puladvand family are hoping to retain their seat’in the Kailie,
though Muhammad. Husaein Parrukhi of the Aodulvand, a relatV».
h«L g T e t -^an hoping to oust his sitting relation, psr-
Pathnih? ^ eJ,3ri f z }f ticket. One of the Sagwand Lars, rsameS
Pathollah F.ur-bartip, is no.ping to he elected: he is an
active member of the Mihan Parastan party.
the Ha-rv-i^ TJ ld no L get m ! jeh further with the question of
the Harris nnuder. it may be some satisfaction to hear that the
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