مجموعة ١١١/٢٨ "بلاد فارس. كرمانشاه - يوميّات سياسية." [و‎‎٢‎٦‎٨] (٧٥١/٥٣٨)

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present in command at Safcfcis who, notwithataiidioraera
rcceitta by hit stalf captain irom the DiviaionaX
Commaadar to remove a want ity ol army stores, inclualng
ammunition, irom the local petrol atore oi the ^emanahah
Petroleum Company, where they had been dumped without
leave and without any regard to safety some six weeks
before, could not be persuaded by a senior member of
/-the &•*•£•* a Persian atari, *ho went to inve etigate the
matter, as to the desirability of moving the army atorea
to a lees dangerous place* The local Kurdish agent of
the &.P*C« had previously been told that he had better
not complain of the matter to hie employers - M British
spies** ~ whilst fcasral infomed the visiting inspector
boaatingly that he was w aot airaid of the Huaaiana or
the Britieh* but would act aa he thought rit*
9. MMAL ymXMX, the Hiniater of Jltate, stayed sows
days at sakkis before eventually leaving Xurdictmn for
Tehran about the 14th. He had accompli shea little or
nothing by his visit* It seem© that his local niakname
in r«nnanda3 was "ab-i-gusht hur* - **oonBuiaer of broth”
• equivalent perhaps to •old dodderer**. In particular,
the Minister* s hoped-for faceting with the Hutaesarrif
of SHUIXIiAlllA (October Biary, paragraph 16) did not
apparently materialise* The local Persian military,
on the other hana, eventually oucceeded in ma^in*; contact
with the • Iraqi civil authorities, and at a meeting on
the 8th between Colonel SUlQAfX, the 0 neral ??tafT liat son
officer, ana the hitaesarrif of Sulalrftania the latter
stated that action would *be taken against KAMA RASHID if
he did not surrender. Whet her as a result of auah action
or because he surrendered of his own accord - accounte
vary - Kama Rashid m& finally reported to have cone
on the lath into the hands of the 1 Iraqi authorities
at Buieimanla* Done Persian reports alleged that he
had been arrestee ana would be sent back to Persia, but
that he {surrendered voluntarily seems possible, since
the latest version has it that he is now at ^ irfeuk end
has been ordered by the ’Iraqi, authorities to remain in
’Iraq for 3 years* rft siaen 1*1 tov c 4e» Mo^t 01 the other
chiefs in the lAdi^R area, possibly untagoniaea by the
ecurohed-earth tactics employed by Hama Rashid at Huaeh,
had already made their peace with the Persian authorities,
and, with Rob Roy In exile, the Persian military efcould
now bo capable of maintaining order in the oonquered
territory. The Divisional Commander could probably
have /