"تقرير عسكري عن بلاد فارس - المجلد I ١٩٣٠" [و‎‎١‎٥] (١٥٤/٣٤)

Bampur and dispersed his men. A detachment o? 40
Persian regular camelry was detailed to garrison Khwash.
It had been Amir-i-Lashkar Jan Muhammad Khan’s
intention as soon as the Turkoman revolt had been sup
pressed to form a colony of Berberis in part of the Turko
man country, which would act as a sort of buffer state
between Turkomans and Meshed. A certain proposals were
made whereby about 3,000 Berberies were to be given land
free of revenue for 8 years. The Berberis themselves were
prepared to migrate and their Chiefs inspected the land
offered to them in November 1926.
The project was submitted to Tehran in 1927 and was
finally approved by the Shah in September 1928. At the
end of the year, the Yamut and Goklan Turkoman rebels
who had fled across the Russian border and the followers of
Salar-i-Jang began to return to Persia and their rifles were
returned by the Soviet authorities.
The discipline and general turn out of the men of the
Division greatly improved during the last quarter of the
year under Amanullah Mirza.
A Committee of officers was formed to enquire into
the budget of the Eastern Army which was considerably
reduced. At the same time the Division was reorganised
in 4 mixed regiments of all arms (cf. Brigade grotips) at
Meshed, Bujnurd, Birjand and Duzdap respectively.
In April 1927, the wireless station at Meshed which had
not been working satisfactorily since its installation was
handed over by the Military authorities to the Telegraph
Department.
In the same month the escort of His Britannic Majesty’s
Consulate-General was abolished and left for India. It was
replaced by Guards supplied by the Persian Army.
1928-29 .—The most noteworthy events in the Military
history of Khurasan during this period were: —
(i) The entry into Persian territory of Junaid Khan and
his followers, the attempts made by the Persian
Government to disarm him and his subsequent
march through Persia into Afghanistan.
■ (ii) The' subjugation of Persian Baluchistan.
Junaid Khan, the, Turkoman, outlaw in Soviet Turkistan,
who had been waging guerilla warfare with the Soviet since
1920 was finally defeated in the spring of 1928, and in the