Coll 28/120 ‘Persia. Ahwaz – Consular diaries.’ [‎319r] (638/669)

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(10) c The Acting Vice-Consul, Pohiesinsky, has Veen
showing an interest in Abadan, by asking on what c^ndlVions
he could be allowed to visit Abadan island* He was c- ; oains
to explain + -.hat he would only want to
ally, and only because certain member:
go there very occasion—
or
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staff had relatives whom they wished to bring to
Comp my
Persi from
A Russian of doubtful antecedent-
Soviet Russia
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Goujvin, and without a blue pass came
the 30th October and was locked up in
night: he was mien handed over to th<
which seemed to take lit 4 *!© m erest :
to Ahwaz by
the per»pi^n
i bo vie
name a
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nsulate
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, and thev»e being difficulties in obtaining visas an*
5 no be evacuated to Syria, ^h.e accommoda" ic-'i
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here,
and
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the Poles from Isfahan having arrived
at Ahwaz has been stretched to it©
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Poles at Ahwaz than at "'ehran ( l
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Kliaz al,
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Sheikh Abdullah, one of
sons of the 1
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has sent two communications t 0 this Conou
pa
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someone tp a f. he had a ha'd
in reply wrote
communication
' his father's
denying that he had ever sa
ns a copy of a sort of e:‘
hro 11 wit h ha vi ng g a .1 d
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nnirde i' ^ Ar * r t» o 11
id so* "he second
^rcular which he had
n Khu z i stan 0 ‘"he
vague terms but evidently meant that
he proposed t 0 resist with all possible means any attempt by
the Persian •Government to compensate .the heirs of the sheikh
for their Khuzistar: lands by giving *he\'d lands in othcu' parts
of Peraiac He speaks of ’'protecting our property ' 1 : warns
against the acceptance of ''false promises'’ ; enjoins a cemmen
front lest the :l pairs gardens may fall into wicked hands 1 ’ :
suggests putting the matter into the heeds of a small oorrmittee
as long as they will never agree to part, with the ownership
of the lands: and protesting his readiness to be ^ho
first martyr in his duty #f protecting their ancestral Pre
sent to his ”cousina,uncles, and brothers’
circular was composed j
perty,
his may be empty talk, but it shows how unaccomodat
ing th e sheikh* b sons arelikely to be towards any reasonable
scheme of exchange of land, and bears out what Mrs* Chawsib
said* me document also alludes to sheikh Chassib as J he
'’head of the family”, in spite cf the fact ^hat he is only
half-brother to the writer The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping. *
Chassibhs full brother, Abdul Aziz, has also
written to this office ’requesting to be allowed to return to
reside at one of the old Sheikh’s palaces at Failiyeh, and to
’’work with the British and Americans in agriculture
"Anese are net hopeful auguries for a set - lenent
of the immensely difficult question of the ownership cf Ane
date-palm lands in Khuzistan. ^he deputy Nighabat set out
the legal issues involved in a recent issue of a Tehran caper
If the sons of the Sheikh do come back to Thuzistan, wi
ideas which they clearly express as described above, v
* every will e settlement cf Aneoe ancient land-squabbj.es be d-
kind but Chassib and his brstheren, rowever they may ti-y to.
of away from i t. will become the focus of* anti -Persian :i rr
Rumours cf prepara••• ons by . tne .iheikhs of
to help the vanquished Sheikhs of the Rani ~uruf ^ r
Mishan t 0 ge
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