Coll 28/120 ‘Persia. Ahwaz – Consular diaries.’ [‎269r] (538/669)

^ Price?, in the Anwaz bazaar stoou. at the
end of the month as follows:
>-**N
Retail
Wholesale
Tea, per Kilo
31U
3Uo
Sugar
52
47
Rice, Bizful
7
6
Rice, Resht
9.5o
b
Beans
10
6
T entils
6 .5g
6
Bggs (eacn;
i .75
i . 5<
Rotatoes
8 . 50
8
Onions
.8
7.5<
Mutton
28
Beef
18
(17). Rain 0.3" ct r^in
fell during the
month,
bringing up the total for tne
winter to 9.56
". The
last rain fell on 28th Karen, but it is probable tnat
a little more wi^l fai * 1 in April.
fRlBAl
(I s A ^ Ab in o J her fields, nothin^ is happening ■
on the inbal. front; tn^ tribes are enjoying temporarily
a period of peace undisturbed by tne Persian Government.
Brigadier humayuni flet to Pil ' 1 i and gave Abdullah Knan
2arghampur a written guarantee of safety from Teheran, on
condition that he maintained security m tne Boir Anmed
Sarhadui ower ) area. '.bduiT an is to pay Knosrow aiinual n y
s. Iu 0 ,euo and BuO sacks of wheat and rice, which Khosrow
now seems prenn.red to accept. Humayuni a** so saw Kohammad
Ali Knalili and otner Bahmai ICnans in Ran Hormuz and
reiterated their responsibility for naiutainia^ security
in tne Banmai area. Kohammad All Knalili is to continue
to recexve Government subsidy «f Rls. i6,5ou in payment
for fsrty tofangchis.
v19)^ ^ A dispute is going on between Hormuz
Anmedi and Korteza Quli Khan, the former having rented
i ands of tne Bakhtiari Khans at Zaidun. Hormuz Aiimedi
nas tried to mvoKe the intervention of both the Consulate
a^id tne A»^ • on his behalf, but unsuccessful 1 y. He
claims however to have the support of Kisbeh Patemi
(•the Governor General ) for whom this piece of intrigue
is ideally suited; in the meanwhile the other Kisbah Ratemi
has been doing his own intriguing tms natter in
Benbehan.
(2u;.^ Arabs On visiting Dasht -i-Kishan at Ho Ruz it
was found that no steps had been tanen to sow the rice
crop - in spite of tne land allocation (see para 7 of
Biary No. 5) tne peasants were still awaiting a lead
iron the Siiei±ths> and tne latter, displeased by this
allocation, were remaining inactive. Mr. Solomon
immediately sent a special representative out tnere, and
with the help of Brigadier Humayuni and his security
representative in the area, a plan was agreed upon for
trie making of the necessary dams and the cultivation of
tne ground. Two sheiKhs, Sartip and Knazal, have gone to
Teneran, presumably to try to contest the land allocation;
but the rest appear to be accepting it witn as good a
g^ace as tney can manage.