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5.
ooGOcd part of the Govt.'s policy - underlining ^Uslr's atrength
A preparing the ground for an eventual settlement of the question
'.*fora« should It provo necoooary - and on Sept. 13th.
ltgr«pktd to the Prime ^inlater a formal ocsuplaint on this score,
loh H.K.Consul oonoidered to he fully Justified.

On flopt. 16th. tho Minister for War vloitod Shiraz, end an
it**ptwas nodo to coiapooo tho differences botween qawwm and
(moral Jehanbani. Tho ohiof practical question at iaouo wan
Ether riflon ohould be given tc tho Governor General for his own
Etection and for dlotribution tc the Jeamo.«i>ani and Duehmawziari
riboa. A oosapromioo could certainly have been reaohod or this
•1st particmlar point, but the ^awc.*n*a dietrust of the loilitury
Wightoncd by tho nova, which he hub left to find out for himself,
bat ths iriniotor of War intended tc n;«et *Ueir), and hie conviction
k*t Jehsnboni was noting under the theta* l erdere to cctaVlleh a
tyong tribal bloc iu Para, made a composition cf their clfforencoo
ByoaoiblOp aad ho loft for Tehran cn Sept. 27th. V.y the end of
It yoar ho hod not rct7.rr.ed although he regained the nominal
Gvernor General.
At a mooting nour Ardckan on Sept. 26th. the *’i«ictrr of \Vur
id General Johonboni mot the 'cnah^-i and P.oJ.r Aimed lenders -
|Sir and Abdullah Zarghompour - and an egreofc’.ent war. renchad which,
I far as It wont, governed the relations between the Govt, or.;' the
ribca until tho ond of the yecr. The main point wan that the
oaponsibility for maintaining law and order ir tho tribal areas
itt handed ovor to tho rebel leadcro, and it woo provisionally
Pranged that khoarou ohould be made Governor ef Piruxabad. On
Mir port, tho tribal leadero handod over a very small part of the
psjo enpturod at 8etilrun, a;id promised to hand over more, and
gpeed to cooperate with the Pension ar«y in rcotoping orcer on the
||in rood. Paslr aald ho would leave faehgal territory an coon
ft4he was made a deputy, and he promised to surrender ary Germans
ut night oono into hie territory; (he &8fs*rt*d, probably truth-
plly, that there waro no longer rjiy with him).
The uanediato results of >he /-.rdekon agreement were oatisfac-
Pfj i» that a substantial degree of order was restored, end the
coile of Furs wore given a respite fren tfc|> worot excesses of
waging, but as time wont on, it became increasingly clear that
fc# Qsshgai wore strengthening their position and tho Govt, doin^
Ittle to win support from the other tribes. In fact, until the
I4 of noveaber, there was no tangible evidence that Jehenbnni or
to Persian Govt. had in mind the possibility that they mogfct
telly 1b the end have to doul with thn tribes by force. However,
ti-vialt by Jeh&nbanl to the "amar.oani country in. Movewber, and
A attempt by K*slr to persuade various tribal chiefo to a©know-
edge the as paxv;v:otint tribe, to ^rlng about a
lists of tension, sad at the h»c;isir.lr»? of "scatter ".V.Towsul
^ported that tho -..ashgai scheme of dc.v.ir. a liny T*t»re neoejed to be
iioouBtsrlag difficulties, and the '*3 *:;•:*! served to sense a
jMsge In the 3.0.0'* attitude toward*
ygURITY.
Until the aeacsd half of .Tune, the »«< ♦.nation regained much
to same as it was in the previous yvs'.r, and this operations against
At Qeihgai (begun on Vsy 2‘lud and finished on June 11th. )
Arprieinyly failed to provoke the tribes into raiding the mein
Hods. General Ghahbakhti’b failure to follow up hie success,
\tnwr9 sneouraged tho tribesmen to indulge in a little looting,
situation grew steadily woras aft*r the £«k»lrur« incident
A July 3rd. Pears that the Eoir Ahmedi and the ,.aehgui Might
gterrupt ooooiuaIcations between tthlrai and IcrshOA caused the
Mtd to be closed to leaso-lend traffic for a few days, and in the
Nsomd half of July a detachment of the 00th. Indian Infantry
Sss d tSAt?g)|l€d the VOtA wM1® cho lA*t Missis bound convoys

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