Coll 28/120 ‘Persia. Ahwaz – Consular diaries.’ [‎323r] (646/669)

arms a
"here
having them kept there* The x. re are, hov/eve-,
thoroughly and may well give trouble now ^ha 4 -, ^hey knc
are ®nly Persian troops against them. However, + ne forc
bodings of General ^ajbakhsh, who ««wns considerable pruperty
round the railway near Do-rud, about/-he imminence of attacks
by various predatory Lurs on + he Hallway, nave no^ ye
fulfilled.
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(3)* Brigadier Homayuni continued his po3
ing off one tribe against another with apparent succe
he was transferred to Kurdistan in September, being
by a very different type tf officer. Colonel Afsnar-o
-he defeat of the • insurgent sheikhs of 4 he Harri '"uruy
was done by their Arab rivals under the cawari .leadei
Nasrullah of Haweizah, without any intervention from
Persian army at all, though many officers r ere never-
recommended for, though they did no"' ob
prowess which they might' have shown,
took place, except +he despatch of a few "•re
assist in settling the disnute about Hi soar f c 4 0 Col
Moghbeli ran a summer camp for some of "he Kbuzro'an f
from June to Sent ember at All Gudarz, ana a or; : ■ /e.o./
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uiIding
his roads
for him, and troops
and
worses
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Hbeli seems ge uuinel
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'. .w+s tha 4 sole.:; sue
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t® plu
nder, civ'i
lians. The effects
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se of t
he 60th Brigade in Liardh enr: A
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- from
at
help, and not
tribal exerci
and around Khairabad were salutary anc. apparentoy ..ash,;
at any rate apart from the raiding of Hzeh uboor which
Mor+eza Quii Khan made such a fuss in bepteiaher, and no.
does not seem to have been very serious, hhe nuhgaln to
were quiet, ^raining of troops has gone on and to judg
the cavalry and infantry display on the Shah's birthday
the end of October, the Ahwaz rrsrrison seemed pre 4 by ^eli
drilled^
T R I B S S.
(4)* Ko more disarmament operations have ""een under
taken, except t^at some rifles were collected from the i ''ani
— uruf dissidents after they had been defeated in June, and
some more from the Lirawis and the Kaiat Da wadis follo'tng
on the scuffle round Hissar in the Lirawi area c Colonel
Afshar-oghlou looks forward to the day when by a simui" aneous
operation all the tribes of Persia will be disarmed s'* once.
Reports from the Gulf that arms- smuggling in x o Persia from
Kuweit has stopped for lack of demand seem t 0 show th e
southern Persian tpj/hes are better supplied with rifles t/ian
the Colonel seems to *hink. ~he abortive a+fempt by Yunus
Asi and o+her Bani 'biruf Sheikhs to take back their lands in
June has already been alluded to: his brother- Lluhamtnad is
reported to have been killed three months latere "he lard-
settlement is a + the back wf all this trouble and efforts
are being made achieve a more equitable distribution cf
the lands, though as the proposed settlement does nothing
for the bheikhs the latter are bound to $r)pcse i + o As far
the rest of the Arabs, + he Mianab tribes seem t G have 1 - arnf
their lesson, for they have given no further trouble efter
Homayuni disarmament operations last spring* The fsafc amd.
other sou+hern Arabs however are alarmed about what is said
t.o be g^ingon in Tehran about he date-garde ns: many snail
cultivators have unobtrusively acquired righ 4 s +o various
properties, and if possession is again given to +he far= ly
of the late bheikh of liuhammerah there will be some tnible.
/And if,