مجموعة ٥/٢٩ "سيستان: التعيينات بالنيابة القنصلية (زابل)" [ظ‎‎٢‎٠] (١٨٥/٤١)

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. SI^ MD QOMPOSITION QF BRITISH CQmiUHITY .
The British European community consists oi the Vice-
Consul; the British Indian community of the Clerk-in-Charge
with occasionally one or two other Indians in residence.
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There is a Persian Military Officers * club, hut no
other, in Birjand.
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Calls are due from the Vice-Consul on the Persian
Governor of Birjand, and, by courtesy, on two former
Governors of Birjand: Sarkar Amir Shaukat-ul-Mulk, C.I.E.,
and Sarkar Hissam-ud-Dowleh, both of whom are"distinguished
men in. bast Persia and very friendly to us.
The Persian anti-British boycott broke down in August
1941, and. I have made friends with a number of Persian
officials.
8. PUBLIC SPEAKING . Nil.
9. SPOKT AND RBCRdATICW .
The possibilities*of tennis and riding have been
indicated above. Other recreation is rambles in the
hills near the Kelata and an occasional pursuit of
partridges with a gun during the winter. If leave
is obtained to go to Zabul, the shooting there in
winter (luck and black partridge) is excellent.
10 - BRITISH INSTITUTIONS. Nil.
11 • fofligAL fAClLIgx .u orn^. THAH BRITISH .
There is a Persian Government school in Birjand.
A Russian doctor, naturalised Persian, has lived 25
years in Birjand. The quality of his services is not known
A Persian doctor is at present stationed in Birjand
by the Persian Government to attend labourers working on
the Zahidan-Meshed road. I have had illness, but I was
advised that it would be definitely unwise to call him in.
Persian cavalry is stationed at Birjand and there is
a military veterinary surgeon. The quality of his services
is not known.
Medicines have long been virtually unobtainable in
j Persia, except perhaps at Tehran.
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