مجموعة ١١١/٢٨ "بلاد فارس. كرمانشاه - يوميّات سياسية." [و‎‎٢‎٣‎٤] (٧٥١/٤٧٠)

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tact that not a single wealthy merchant had sat on the
oonraieBionj it wao composed entirely oi local lanc«-
owuerii, who a ipax^ently have a monopoly of eh art table
feeling& in those partn.
^ 40• In the laet fev* weeH:s t\xrtbsr supplies oi‘ drags
have reached Ke mane hah teem 1‘ehran. Dr Daftari, the
Director of Public Health, has also been promised two
travelling dispensaries. A major obstacle to effective
medical work in country districts is the refusal of
qualified doctors to maroon themselves in otitlandish
places in return for a Government doctor’s salary of
only 4,000 rials a month. The travelling diapcnoarlea,
ii they ever arrive, should contribute to relieving the
plight of rural areas in a way t'uit nothing else is
likely to do.
41 . a consider tble number of ne ? houses are bei 13 put
uo in the town • against all •oonomic law, since with
prices already tending to tall aid due in all probabili
ty to fall much further after the war, peoplo with
mom j to spare ought auroly to ,«eep it in the bank.
The phenomenon ia thought to be due either to the
muddled thins ing of i; nora-t merchants wit’^ money to
bum or else to lack of confidence in the currency
on the part of nouveau*, r ic hes and a consequent aesire
to secure ecrae portion of their gains beyond all
peradventarc.
42. a fire in the Jewish quarter of the town on the
loth wati put out by the fire brigade oi the Xermanebah
Petroleum Company before extensive damage was done.
43. Xr A.0. Trott, <'.B. >.•, oriental Secretary, stayed
ths night oi the 9 th-loth in ^ermanshah on hie way to
the United. Kingdom on leave prior to t ransfer. Colonel
C. Aston, Political Adviser for Southern ’Iraq, waa
hsre from the % )th to the ^3rd, after leave in w r nadan.
Hr a. v. M. Robertson, Manager ox the Ke mans hah Petrol
eum Company, left on the 31ct for the United kingdom
on homo* Iv^ave.
44. 1,500 French pri?ionerc cf war passed through
Ke men shah about the beginning of the month on their
way /