Coll 28/111 ‘Persia. Kermanshah – Political diaries.’ [‎179r] (360/751)

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13* The at the noma41 e tribe a icon the
frontier reglona to their eummer ^uwrter^ on the plateau
too4. piHoe during th# month with lee. 11 ariy* Inoidenta*
ieourity was Hmrreu, however, b/ iurther thelta ol British
military telephone wire, includln^ the removal oi IK?JO
yo^ra* oi line In the neighbourhood oi BJ UTUb» only
,— b > mliee iron ^enamnahAh# and two cnee* oi' highway roooery
on the three-^fiiie road oetween the town ana the oil
reliuery on the eveninge oi the &4th ouid bbtli 9 when on
each occasion the passengers In a dorosh y wore held up
and robbed* The wire cutters have not been caught but
tktlvr e hasted meeting hold al ter the ilret ex the two
hold-ups at wMeh the A*X*«O. oonlronted the i^ieis oi the
Amzy, the loliee and the c omu mene and oontrivod
finally to saadie the re sponeibility lor the piece of
road in < 5 U«ation on one of them - the Chioi of Pol lee -
action was taken to trace the robbers and ttree sue ects
have already been enught*
14* A ^raver threat t? the ^enerol security ol this
consular district e^er^ed during the month in the shape
oi a misguided proposal on the part oi luOfteral BUX^lHAtAh f s
Ohiei of Staff, to initiate &n intrii^sie^lly desirable
progrumme of dioarraiu^ the tribes in nUSUbTAft, and in
EObAKblH and IKIEiK in this consular district, by first
ealllag in the rifles oi the r&fchaNurs, the ioosil civil
oilicinls on whom all eui&tln,, law n>ia order in the tribal
districts depsads. This topsy-turvy notloo w«» dlacutsed
with owlsh uynn by the olltlcsl Advlaor durlirj^ the
Oeneral* s visit hers. bt-Col. ;P , «s ctli% Oona-il-
tteaerel designate for AH f 4A, was partieciarly interested
i the question *s it affectec Luriat*m, ana succeeded in
\ obtaining as^ur^noea xrejm uulshsyan that the eehwaie would
be dropoea end th^t iiskhehnUrs would be allowed to retain
for the time bein& even the modern Bmo rifles which huve
been issued to some of them in the past a/*d which the
Persian Army particularly wished to recover* At th% earns
time the Oen«.-ral persuaded to tn >e a ute.. in a more
sensible direction by issuing long overdue inutructions
to locul military dst«sliaisnts to assist in the dtn irmwimant
oi men ol ths auu BXaK dlAH tribes who are given
to robbery in the neighbourhood #f the £# wm* ashah-Chant»cixi
roiid but could not be disaxised without his help isee derail
Biary, pat^agraph Id; * j«a the prppoa&l to disara the
ha*vh&ha»rs may have emanated in the first place from
Tehran /