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hie departure in October, conducted the affair* of the
U? tan on the whole with so.ccees* He had the talent of
mana^in^, hia head a oi dovemifient ae par tne nta. running
them ao a haruonioub tea*,,. Uiiable himaelf to travel
hio province ao he would have liKea, partly owing to
x'- the lack of a deputy to ta e charge in his absence (for
the Fa xaandari oi Ke man shah a& a separate oifice was
abolished before his arrival) ano partly perhaps to ar,©
and latterly to increasing infirmity, he nevertheless
encouraged his officials to take e\ery opportunity to
visit the districts. He was taken seriously ill early
in August and was removed to Tehran in October, since
when his former chef de cabinet, JTkKAk^HAHI, has been in
charge. The Gove mo rate 8 01 SHAdkBAD and Hamadan have
been without titular officers in residence for somewhat
prolonged periods, the former through the removal o.-. an
u.isatisf ictory Governor a*id toe latter through tne
absence in Tehran since the middle of nuguat 01 GAiGiAH
AuClAi/h The eliiciene^ Ox aoministration can hardly
fail to be adversely affected.
15. A change in the Fifth Ust an as an adndni at rat i ve
unit v/as announced in March when, with the appointment
of Shahab-ua-Douleh 8s Governor of kurdistan, that area
I oedareu tol M iXLd8ptll4Mt <l attd its Governor to be
responsible direct to Tehran. This was an unwelcome
decision to the Ustancar, to whom it cane as a surprise,
and was taken up by him with the Government when he
visited Tehran in April-ilay. On hi* return he stated
that he ha*- been assured that the transfer of Kurdistan
from his Ustan ./ould not, in fact, be proceeded with,
but subsequent events ana the apparent lack oi interest
in Kermanshah in the situation in Luraistan do not seem
to bear this out.
16. The military administrative organisation consists
of the 4th (Kurdistan) I/i vision and the 12th (Ke man shah)
Brigade, the latter being within the Command of the
O.C. 5th (Luristan) Division at Xhurramabad, ail arrange
ment which occasionally gives rise to confusion in
dealings with the tribes. Fahim-ud-Douleh suggested
to Tehran that the Kermanshah Brigade bo made independent
but the policy ox the Ministry of War is understandably
opposea to the creation ol small independent commands.
Colonel Shahrukhdx ahi, O.C. the Brigade, has been
co-operative /