Coll 28/120 ‘Persia. Ahwaz – Consular diaries.’ [‎324r] (648/669)

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as seems likely, some of +he sons of ^he bheikh come
se^^le in Kh'azis^an + hey will become 4 'he centre of
all sor+s of intrigue So As for +:he Lurs^ a certain amoun + .
of sniping on Persian pos-^s by -^lie Papis round Qarun and
befid Dash-'- s^a^ions +ook place when + he Dri + ish pos+s -.vers
wi+hdrawn, bu 4 - i- soon died down* ^he murderers of At. Vice
Cons-Jil Harris, having gone scot free for* over ^hree years,
have been a* las 4 - tackled and ^-hree of them arrested by a
sudden attack directed by Vajor All Paladvando Pinally a
word mus 4 be said abou 4 - x he mobile dispensary, which, under
the command of 0 ap+ o parvis, has continued x he good work
began by Cant 0 Garrod, and has distributed a good deal of
medicine *o'' J -he Dash+-i-k r ishun tribes, and also those round
Ahwaz and t* )e £cihgi ins round and beyond Behbehar.c I 4 is a
grea+ city that tha 4 . excellent plan has had t G be wound up
owing to lack of personnel and A he departure of the British
forces: * he good which it did can hardly be overestimated and
its propaganda value was enormous.
JSCONOdlCc.
(5). iATo Bolornon has continued as Finance Agent for
the oro vince and has been keenly irmcrested in questions like
the Bani
mf land*- settlement: it js feared, hov/eve;
that
he will scon depart and that his department will follow +he
example of all o^ner government departments and become a
hotbed of bribery and corruption, ^he Economics section
of the liinj s 4 ry of Finance ras + aken away from hr, oolemon
in May, and allotted -o a certain Jaafar Noushine, mho did
not succeed either in collecting anything like ^he proper
*or quantjof ^hea ; . due fi-ora t^e landlords,♦in achifbing a
proper distribution ofra + ion coupons cur the issue of tea and
sugar, For instance, the total - weight of wheat and barley
4 wns, but up +o the end of August he
Income-tax questions are in
contract eh for was 7,600
had only col.looted about 2 , 000 ,
suspense and everyone hopes 4 hey will be forgotten, IThea 4
seems to be in process of being exported 4 o Abadan and Xhorrani-
shahr, ~’he prodigious energy of the indefatigable Colonel
Noel, full of bright ideas and enthusiasm, continue *-o
amaze his Persian friends and t 0 exasperate the Anglo-
Iranian Oil Company who do no * approve of ail his ideas,
"'be farm at Haml&leh carries «n in spite of incredible
financial difficult ies: 4 he pumping projects af bhushtar,
the hydroelectric scheme for supplying cheap power from
mountain rivers, pig farms, ceme- t n> 0 rks, gasometers, oil
extracting plants, and many other plans for the econoisic
betterment of this province of Shuzistan, are all in various
stages of preparation. ~’he Hamidieh project is *o be taken
over by the Persians and made in 4 o a comoany on certain con
ditions: the’ bhah has even promised t 0 contribute a million
rials but hitherto Colonel Noel has not received the
Cash o
There is not much of interest to add to t^e last
PAiriEb,
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report on the subject oi
Friday orator, continues
Branches a J Andimeshk, Dizful, and ielibehasare reported, but
at the latter place t '"udeh M seems merely a name to 2 .look
private intrigues and hatreds* The Tudeh intriguer ra.la.bati
parties*
to harang.
lx umic,
bu 4 no 4 -
the 'Dideh
to make progress.
rom Abadan
to
urujird, but managed ~g ge 4
has been exile:
back for a time* "Vie Mai at party, under a crook named
Naqshineh; has established itself but cuts a poor figure. A
party called '' J avanaii ! (young persons) was reported in June
but seems t Q have disappeared. At iSasjid-i-^uleiman 4 biere
seems +o be a branch of the curious Kasravi movement, an
iconoclastic attempt to change the Persian character by
destroying things like Persian classics (baadi, Hafiz,vhayyam,
/Ferdaus^,etc.)