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toegan on the 14tb ©nd continued during the month.
19. Recent visits to Kurdistan of an lasos at or of
the ftinletry of CamMmiications ana later of the
i;ii^ctor-^eneral oi the same iinistry# together with
the appoin traent of a now chief of the Coirsuani cat ions
Department in gennanOaj, will, it is hoped, lead to
"badly needed re^aira being put in haiid on the roads
in Kurdistan*
FOOD
UPPL 1
fcO. UndertaKinge, sene of them secured by force of
putting landowners into ^ail until they signea, itave
jxo*i been obtained for over 13,000 tons oi grain. Some
3,duo tons ox this total, however, ie grain signed for
by landlords on behalf of their peasants and may be
forfeited as a result of the recent decision to exclude
the ^easaiit* s surplus from the compulsory collection
scheme this year, before the decision wah taken to
free the peasant 1 & surplus, saw collections in this
bstan, excluoinj Kurdistan, were ext/eette to ainount to
tons* Local requirements for the tt*ne,
garrison, Cil aoaipsay, etc. are 13,000 tons ana it was
proposea to stnu the surplus of 9,000 tons to Tehran in.
th& ioiwi of 7,000 tons of wheat and 8,000 tons oi
barley, a first thousand tons curing the Persian month
ox ©huhrivar (August 23rd - September 22nd) and there-
alter two thousand tons a month for four months.
21. dome of last year’s defaulters were threatened
t M ee-s ago «ith the confiscation of their property.
There is little livelihood, however, of these threftta
b«sing iaiplementett. British cereals collection ©ificera
are understood to have been reniinuea recently by their
heaoquf rters fhat their funstions are limited to
«auvising and training 4 * Persian officiale; mere advice
ho^ev^r will not sullies to move Persian oi iicif Is
to enforce the las if they arc unwilling to assume the
responsibility for doing so.
2b. The price of wheat on the free market has ft 1lea.
from l^J uomane to 140 to*aaii«r» a kharwar. The peasant b
improved ohruices oi ootaming sugar, tea and piece-
goods /