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on these boards, and the required executive energy will, it is hoped, be provided
to a large extent by the American advisers. A number of American experts with,
it is hoped, executive powers will arrive shortly to help in the administration
ot the army, police, finance and supplies and in other spheres. General Greely
is already working as unofficial adviser to the Intendent-General of the Army,
/^Hd Professor Winsor has been working for some time in the Ministry of
Jriculture as irrigation expert.
20. A.R.P. is non-existent here, and a P.A.D. officer from 10th Army has
recently conducted an examination of the question on the spot and made recom
mendations to the Persian Government. A survey of minerals of value to the
Allied war effort is being made by Mr. Barnett, a'member of the M.E.S C staff
and development work’under our direction may well result. Meanwhile we do
not forget, in the midst of this constructive effort, measures lying at the other
end of the scale of usefulness, such as air raid precautions and plans for evacua
tion to be put into effect if the worst comes to the worst.
21. In the areas occupied by British troops, our intervention to secure the
removal of undesirable officials and the appointment of suitable successors is
becommg increasingly frequent. I am reporting separately on the question of
the I nbal Lands Commission with which Colonel Galloway maintains special
contact. Meanwhile it is only fair to say that in spite of gloomy forecasts the
Persian army has succeeded in maintaining a fair degree of security on our lines
of communication and supply routes to Russia. Mohamed Rashid in Kurdistan
only has a few~ followers left, and rather desultory negotiations are proceeding'
In the Bakhtiari country an appearance of order has been restored; only in Pars
does the situation cause anxiety as Nasir Khan has not made his peace with the
Persian Government and is said to be harbouring some German agents The
Qashgai and Kuhgilu countries are closed to Government troops.
22. To conclude this rather lengthy review, there is, I fear, no doubt that
we are in for a most difficult time. The food-stuffs and transport situation alone
is most complex, and w T e have to work through a maze of corruption and
inefficiency in the administration in our efforts to deal with it The deterioration
in the military situation in recent weeks has made our task a good deal more
difficult. But we shall live from day to day and try to meet these problems as
they arise.
I have, &c.
R. W. BULLARD.
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