"ملف W/4 العداءات في بلاد فارس: حصار تانجستان، مصادرة شاي مورد إلى تانجستان" [و‎‎١‎٢‎٢] (٤١١/٣٣٧)

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No.319 of 1916.
British Residency and Oonsulate-Seneral,
Bushire, 17th February 1916#
To
The Political Agent,
Bahrain.
Memorandumo
With reference to your letter N0.12-C of the 10th
instant the following is the result of my enquiries;-
In the first place the registration certificates
for boats issued "by the Director of Customs at Bushire
during the Occupation, and since, are in no sense certi
ficates of the "bona fides of their nakhudas and owners.
All boats in Bushire creek at the time were registeeed and
these included seyeral vessels belonging to ports on the
Tangistan and Dashti Coasts. In future the Director of
Customs says that he will have a different letter for each
port. It does not pay to bring tea from Bahrain to Bushire
(i.e. # through the Customs)more particularly as there are
large stocks in the place which cannot get out cf it and
as a general rule it may be assumed by you that all Kakhu-
das desiring to obtain permits to export tea from Bahrain
to Bushire will not ultimately land the tea at Bushire but
intend to smuggle it in elsewhere. This applies both to
the case of Jfakhuda Zair Ismail Mo 199 w^o has never ar-
/
rived and about whom I am still making enquiries, but es
pecially in the case of Uakhuda Ali Hassan of "Lawar" Uo
155.
This man is reilly Kakhuda Ali Hassan Zair Khalil of
Grahi, a small port 4n the Tangistan Coast between Dilwar
and Bulkhair; he does not belong to Lawar. The details
given in your letter were read yesterday to one of the
Dashti