Coll 28/120 ‘Persia. Ahwaz – Consular diaries.’ [‎320r] (640/669)

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(14) c Looting oy ^ani baleh Arabs is re‘ported 01 -be
26th October: about 40 camels belonging t 0 Laghdghileh
being stolen at night a few miles nor^h east of Ahv;az 0
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A -^rain from Khorramshahr x o Ahwaz, having
stopped owing to some mechanical defec 4 -. not far short of Ahwaz,
was robbed recently by armed men who got away with some of
the train's freight 0
SHAH 9 2 BIRTHDAY.
(16'}* The Ahwaz troops paraded on the SS^h Oo' ober and
a display of physical training, bayonet drill, obstacle
v —~ /
gave
racingymusical riding, cavalry acrobatics, etc,, 6 te,, before a
mixed audience of foreigners and Persians: i v was well done*
The noviet Acting Vice-Consul was observed to be taking
phct c gr aphs©
(17) © "'he auspicious birthday was again celebrated by
another display on ^he following day, this tine at t> ie invit
ation of the head of +he education department© His students
performed various physical training evolutions, and there
were flat races, boxing, and football, together with an open
air exhibition of ''zur-khaneh" exercises by various M pahXa-
vans’h ^he most remarkable of whom, a bald gentleman cf 54,
took his full part in the variou:
a loyal speech a x the end of it.
4-p. S-
otrength and made
COMMU NICATI ONB,
(18) * Telegraphic communications ccntj.nue deteriorate
For a short time the, telegraph to Tehran was not working at
all© A telegram from the Foreign Office to Ahwaz was six
days on the way© A letter and a telegram, both despatched
to Ahwaz from Isfahan at the same time, arrived ^oge+he?
six days later 0 A x the end of the last war such a breakdown
in internal communication did not take place, no doubt be
cause the Indo-European ^elegraph Department and Company
were then running the main lines with a British staff©
UNBBSIRAHLL 8 ,
(19)
Lt, Col© Milanian, and Lt* Radmanesh a brother of
the Majlis deputy, have arrived at Ahwaz in disgUB.ee after
being concerned in the recent military plot e -’he GoGhO, is
trying his best to have them removed,
PARTIES.
(20), Ho new developments are reported, except taat
ColoAlborz, by adroit manoeuvres, prevented 4 ~he '"udeh soump-
speaker Ali Omid from doing anything at all during the cele
brations of the .Shah's birthday© On Thursday the 2b 4 -h Alborz
had him invited tc the military parade but prevented him - from
saying anything© The next day, which was both the Shah’s
birthday and the day on which Ali Omid is wont to make his
weekly oration, the nead of -olice kept, him in prison© As
for the Adala.t party, Nik-Ne,11^1 appears to be taking over
from Naqshineh, but the lav Toes net ward. t 0 g 0s