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Ilam and Gilan on thus 9th but found the roads to Hum an<l Oilan
closed by sno* and had to return to iCerrnanahah on the 10th. M«CoX«
A.I-. Pitt visited Hamadan from the 14th-13th.
At G#C. Boyle arrived on the 10th to take up the duties of
assistant in H.M. Consulate. Captain the Hon* M.3. Buckiaastar, a
attached for duty in Consulate as Acting Vice-Consul, arrived ^
on the 31st*
33. Dr Dozy and (?Dr) Thi^baud, Dutch and Swiss geologists employed ^
by the Bataafsche Petroleum Maatschappij, stayed the night of thl
i^5th in .fermaashah on their way to Cairo. Ismet :hunuro Pahlevi,
"lA Petite Heine’*, a consort of the late Heza Shah, passed through
Kerman shah on the 18 th on her way to Tehran.
34. Six cases of typhus, one of them doubtful, were reported in
Kermunshah during January. The two travelling dispensaries for
medical work in rural districts in this area have arrived; oue has
been allotted to Sennandaj and the other has already been on tour
in the itowansir area.
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35. Several hundred Persian pilgrims are at a loose ena in the town,
having arrived here after the appointed time for entering Iraq. The
Iraqi Consul, who can only give them visas now if a special dispensa
tion is made, has referred the matter to Bagdad for instructions. it
seems that the pilgrims failed to make allowances either for transport
difficulties or for the slowness of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
in issuing their passports.
36. The Soviet Vice-Consul, .Pavel Pankratov, whose appreciation of
U.3. bqmber raids on Tokyo was recorded in last month's Diary, hac
given further evidence that although the U.S. i.K. is not involved
in the 'Allied war against Japan he for one is not neutral in spirit.
In conversation with the Acting Coneul at a recent social function
he volunteered the information that Marshal Zhukov, whose victorious
armies now threaten Berlin, was the general in charge or the Soviet
forces which clashed with Japanese troops on the borders of Outer
Mongolia in 1939, Japanese? casualties in which encounter he quoted
with unconcealed relish.
(Sgd.) A. J. Edden.
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Acting Consul,
British Consulate,
Kermanshah,
February 7th, 1945<
Distribution; foreign Office (4); H.M. Ambassador, Tehran (2);
C.I.C.I., Bagdad; Minister Resident, Cairo; Government of India;
G.H., ] ew Delhi; K.M. Consular Officers at Tabriz, Ahwaz and
Shiraz; Political Adviser, kermanahah; British Vioe-Con&ul, Hamadan;
A.D.O., Xc,rmanahah; File.