"ملف W/4 العداءات في بلاد فارس: حصار تانجستان، مصادرة شاي مورد إلى تانجستان" [و‎‎١‎٢‎٣] (٤١١/٣٣٩)

Dashti Khans, who is in the Customs service here and is also
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working for us, and a few hours later a man arrived from Lawar
to tell him that Uakhuda Ali Hassan Zair Khalil who had had
"business with a certain trader in Bahrain in water-melons, or
other vegetables last summer, had a dispute this time with the
trader, who afterwards informed you of his intended shipment of
tea; that the Nakhuda, after the impounding of his tea as re
ported "by you had sailed to Khur-i-Ziaret, where he now is, in
tending to "bribe Hussain Khan of Dashti to give him a certific
ate to you that the tea was really destined for Lawar,
The messenger added that the tea in question all "belonged to
i.e., was "bought with the money of, Zair Khidhar Khan of Tangis
tan, the rebel here, and his son Muhammad Ali, to Shaikh Hussain
of Chahkutah, the other rebel leader and to the sons of Nakhuda
Zair Khidhar Haji Hussain of Goinak, a village in Tangistan,one
of whom, Ghulam Reza, was actually in the boat of Nakhuda Ali
Hassan at Bahrain.
This information received last night was also confirmed by
the Darya Begi 1 s head-nkin at Hallileh, from other sources. It
may be added that since the transport of goods from Bushire to
Shiraz has been stopped by us here, there is a great demand up-
country, which it is very profitable for the rebels in Tangist=in
to supply. At present tea is much cheaper in Tangistan than in
Bushire.
As regards Abdullah te bin Izhaq, I do not know how long he
has been in Bahrain, but he does not belong to Bushire itself.
Originally he hails from Dirazi in interior Dashti, lived at
Jabri, a suburb of Bushire for some years, then got heavily into
debt, and in 1912 or 1913 fled to Tangistan where Mr Chick saw
him early in 1913o Since then he has been one of Zair Khidhar
Khan's employes, particularly in the smuggling line.
To sum up, Hakhuda Ali Hassan 1 s boat belongs to Tangistan not
Bushire, and his cargo would undoubtedly never see Bushire: it is
destined for the enemy, and one of the shippers in Bahrain is a
partner with the enemy. In my opinion both Ali Hassan's boat if
it appears, and the whole of its cargo or intended cargo should
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