مجموعة ١١١/٢٨ "بلاد فارس. كرمانشاه - يوميّات سياسية." [و‎‎٢‎٢‎٠] (٧٥١/٤٤٢)

must by this time be a little the worse for wear. He
h*B since been unwell and keeping to his house, lio
new vice-consul he a yet appeared to take the place of
OserSv#
31* About toe 30th M. ^ankratov, vice-consul, with a
•ju n.jr member oi the soviet Consulate Bfcall, ’nade a trip
to Howansir in tne Conwilete jeep and was entertained
to lunch by the Ba 'hohdar, ohulam Hussein Ardalan.
3Si, The Russian oiiicers and other ranks reported aome
months ago as being stationed in 3AKKI2i for the ostensible
purpose of purchasing horses and fodder (April Diary,
paragraph 35) art now understood to have left for the
North* As they are said not to have settled their
accounts they may be intending to return.
BRITISH PROPAGANDA :
35. The F,A. , during a trip into tribal territory
north-west of Kemanshah, took Persian newspapers and
P.&.B. literature with him, as well as small supplies
of suger, rice and cloth. He also took a borrowed
battery radio set with which he gave news in Persian
from London and Tehran and also in Arabic from Bagdad.
In the Oawanrudi area the villagers had never heard a
rsnio before and were very mystified at first. In the
j Jewanrudi country he fastened the aerial to a tree. Next
! morning a gang ot men came to cut the tree down. F.nquiry
I elicited the following reason: this tree was the one
| under which the Jawanrudie met in conference and they
felt that, as the P.A. could now ask the tree for any
information it had gathered on a specific date, it was
more prudent to cut the tree down before it could give
' any of their secrets away.
34. A new cinema, the HOMAY, opened in Kerman shah on
the &?th. At the gala opening a Russian newsreel was
shown as also were an excellent coloured film of the
British weaving industry and the film "Down Argentine
MISCELXiAHEOTTS /