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by a gang of ariaed Baluchis on "tiie 24"th November and goods
a nd money valued at about tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. 18,000/- were carried
away.
r " All, a notorious bandit of the Kerman area
^ e P or ^ e ^ have been killed in November by riflemen of
Bahadur ul Mulk a t i^ardsir.
^cember, Jamshid the son of Shamshir (known as
Da h ^ir} the leader of a band of Buchakchis, was caught by
the military authorities near Mashiz with one of his follow-
-°ers # Allahyar who was with them was killed in trying to
escape. 61
, ^ In Novemb ?r an Iranian soldier named Manuchir died
on him in Kerman by two members
of the Agricultural Department named Khalaqi and Zand. The
former was a % cq v uitted and the latter was sentenced to death
by the local High Court.
VIII. COMMUNICATIONS.
( a ) ftpay ds. The road between Kerman and Zahidan was
in good re P air b y the Royal Engineers up to the
10th December a fter which it was formally handed back to
the Iranian Government. All other roads, especially the
Kerman^Bandar Abbas section, are in a deplorable state and
a Imost impassable after rain. Great shortage of funds has
prevented the Roa d Department from effecting any but tempo-
-ra ry minor repairs.
__ Kerman Landing Ground . The primary rumay of
the Kerman landing ground with an overall length of 2540
yards of bitumen surface was completed 1m October and has
been used by British, American and Iranian civil and mili-
-tary authorities. The landing ground with all its adjacent
buildings etc. were formally handed over to the Iranian
military a uthorities on the 9th December.
^ 4.v. ^ . A small but powerful W/T station was ejected
in the Bagh-i-Na seriyeh in March by engineers of the American
^.rmy for the exclusive use of the Iranian military authorities
to facilitate quicker communication with Tehran and Isfahan.
(d) The Kerman wireless station worked with Jask
a t irregula r intervals during the year.
I3£ SCQMOMin.
Excellent and well distributed rainfall occurred in
the province during the first two months of the year which
assured a good grain harvest, but ik late frost caused a
certain amount of damage to the crops. The local Finance
Department decided in May that as government 'ambars 1 were
overstocked with barley from the previous year's harvest no
undertakings lor this grain would be necessary during the
year. Also surplus stocks of wheat held in »ambars* in
outlying and fa r distant areas, which, for lack of funds,
could not be tra nsported to Kerman central 'ambars*. were
sold at the sites in large quantities by public auction,
ine reason for this prodigality was that the present yea^s
gram harvest wa s sufficient to meet the needs of the pro
vince until the next harvest. Conditions of undertakings
lor whea t collection were greatly relaxed and assessments
were lenient and favourable to cultivators. In July it was
lound that the barley requirements for the year had been
senously underestimated and to correct this the Central
Kharbar in Tehran reversed their earlier decision not to
obtain undertakings for barley. The crop however had
a rltuYt ??o ia 1:1 + r ^S5 ed ^ an(i cultivators and as
in coJi •etfr? th^h difficulty was experienced
-ment^ 8C k^ g ^?.. b .?^ e y feU.s hort of total require-