مجموعة ١٢٠/٢٨ "بلاد فارس. الأهواز - اليوميات القنصلية." [و‎‎٧‎٠] (٦٦٩/١٤٠)

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Instructions for,the use Of the coupons thut Wnro ta
introdliped in connection With this rnenflure nppesred in ♦ , He
Aktari-fiuz of Uth January. By the end of the month the
Director of finance had received no official instructions
and had no knowledge of the measure except what he had ^g^eaned
from the newspaper, a week later the Director received
instructions from Tehran together with a sample oi coupon? which
he was to have printed locally 9 At present, nearly six w- 3 eks
giftor the public announcement of a measure the success of •/'hich
clearly depended on the spped of its execution, the px-iiit^r
hopes to deliver the coupons "shortly'*.
An Anglo—Iranian Relief Committee has been set up -nd io
(now making a very solid contribution to feeding Ahwaz tovn.. ihe
(British military authorities are supplying to the committee at the
controlled government price, which is rather less than a ,hird
; of the current market price, half a ton of grain daily. r 'his
grain is milled and baked in a liakery built by the committee
^antf distributed to the indigent. m his quantity of grain Ls
'alleged to be sufficient to feed between 1500 and 2000 ?e?sons
P daily and to fall short by half of what is required. The
remainder of the bread required is being purchased from wt.at
'remains of the Rials 700,000 subscribed by local merchant
^before the formal inception of the committee. Arrangements
have )ieen made for five tons of grain, which is estimator to lie
sufficient to feed the destitute of Khorramshahr to/sen- to f^ •
,His majesty’s Consul there from military sources at the same rate.
V. nocal Politics .
26) The case of Sassoon (corapare para 4 of Ahwaz diary for
:st to 15th November 1942) is apparently not yet finished
oassoon had after much delay been ordered to pay a fine (f
lials 50§,-QOf. On 12th February orders were passed by tr.c Court
ior refund of Sassoon’s>fine. The Governor-General profeases
■to be exceedingly angry, but details of the transaction are at
tresent lacking.
YI. Tribal •
27) With reference to para 28 of the last Ahwaz diar/,
efficial information of the Persian-military authorities' intention
io fpr-in a brigade at Behbehan has now been received. CcLcne-..
Romayoun, who has succeeded to the command of the new ICmzistan
Division" (in theory only a brigade had been maintained i.i ihe
province after the cessation of hostilitiesj, apparently- proposes
io undertake the disarmament of the Ruhgilu.
28) On 7th February the cinema van assigned to Khuzist&n for
propaganda work was returning from Behbehan and was hell up
■fey an armed gang of five tribesmen short of ilarun village. The
leader of the gang, on hearing that the van was British
government property, directed that the equipment should r.ot
le touched or the driver and operator stripped; he was, however,
ur.able to resist the temptation of relieving the driver ar.d
operator of Rials 900/-. No information has been receivsi so far
of the result of the gendarmerie's enquiries.
(29) With reference to para 29 of the last Ahwaz diary, the
detachment of soldiers despatched to the telephone house returned
to Behbehan on the same day. The telephone house was again
raided on the night of 14th February. The same gang was
alleged to be responsible.
VII, ^.rabs .
(3#j By 12th February (compare para 31 of the last diary)
06*7 rifles had been surrepderecj by the i/iianab tribes to Colonel
UQm{jyoun wJ>Q b n ^ er ^ a 1 k es back two fifths of these arms
/under