مجموعة ١١١/٢٨ "بلاد فارس. كرمانشاه - يوميّات سياسية." [و‎‎٣‎١‎٢] (٧٥١/٦٢٦)

2(5. The bazaar was very quiet. Prices tended to sag and the news
^ at the end of the month of advances on the Russian front caused
reductions of from 5 to 20,; in the prices of sugar and cotton piece-
goods. Merchants are inclined to deal only for cash. In keeping
with' the rise in ^rain prices there was a rise in thu ..rices of a
number of local foodstuffs* including roghan, stocks of which are
low. Wholesale prices o’f local foodstuffs were as follows:-
December 51st
• Rial$
January 31st
Rials
v. heat
1,100-1,200 (per kharwar
1,500
Barley
600 at 300 kilos)
800
Peas
1,800
2,400
Beans
900
1,100
Potatoes
1,400
1,600-1,700
Roghon
290 (per man of v
.370
Mutton
5 kilos)
( retail)
90
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SOVI .1 ACT IV IT I&S i
27. The Soviet Consul, iHikolai iQimov, was away in Bagdau through
out the month. He has i*eceived instructions to await the arrival of
the soviet Minister, Zaitsev, who has already reached Tehran. Colonel
kaulavi, Acting Chief of Gendarmerie, has spun the somewhat fantastic .
yam that agents of his secured lifts on three trucks carrying
supplies to Bagaaa for the opviet Legation ana discovered that they
were loaned with Persian silver coins anu silver bars - daatined, he
is vonvinced, ior the iinanoin*, oi M bol*h#viat" propaganda in Iraq*
2B. A Major Xvasoff Vasili arrived from Tehran by the Persian plane
on. the 12tJh») withoat papers. He appears to have been a military
doctor sent down by the Soviet Embaesy to attend a case oi illness
in the Soviet Consulate.
29* An exhibition of photographs depicting the keu Army medical
services was formally opened in the Shahpur School on the afternoon
of the l&th, in the presence of local personalities and officials.
The inevitable speech-making began three quarters of an hour a£ter the
advertised time and lasted the best part of two hours. The Soviet
Vice-Consul* s speech was cent‘©ndably brief, taking only five minutee i
to deliver, but the audience soon tired of the interminable statistics
on the state of public health In the U*S.«.R. which a succession of
Persian speakers inflicted on them and a peculiarly fatuous and ’aolf-
satisfied ^Profesaor” who closed the proceedings with an harangue •
forty minutes long was virtually laughed off the rostrum by hie
exasperated listeners. The Iraqi Consul walked out in the middle *
and hardly any of the numerous audience stayed on to look at the
photographs they had come on purpose to see.
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BRITISH PROPAGANDA 1
SO* The mobile cinema van was sent on the 16th to vasr-i-Shirin,
where it stayed for live days. It then went on to /vhosrovi, returning
to iCermanahah on the 25th, after a successful tour.
MXSChhLAriLOim I
51. Mr Vice-Consul W*H.B* Houghton left on tour for ^asr-i-ohirin,
Ilam /