'Administration Reports of the Persian Gulf, 1945 [-1946]' [‎45r] (102/414)

ITT.
I. Co nsular Sub^Office .
Mr,Ma qbul Rahman was Clerk in Charge of the Yezd
Consular Sub-0 ffice from the beginning of the year until
30th September when Mr.Abdur Rahman took over from him and
held charge until the end of the year.
II. VISITORS,
During the year 32 British sub ects, 11 Indians. 15
Americans, 5 Russians, 2 Poles, 4 Swiss and 2 German Jews
passed through Yezd.
Hit BRITISH INTRRF.STS,
Mr # Abdul Rahim Kotal held charge of the A.I.O.C.Depot
during the year together with its sub-branches at Ardikan
a nd Taft.
IW. L OCAL GO VEHNMENT .
Aqai Anmad Sadri held change of the post of Farmandar
throughout the year.
He owed his position entirely to the support of Dr.
lahiri, > de puty for Yezd, He is a most unpopular and cor-
-IPupt official witii a strong anti—British bias and in August
went so far as to instruct government officials to avoid
association with members of the Consular Sub-Office.
A new municipal octroi tax of xiials 2/- and .60/-
wa s imposed on tea and sugar respectively on the 23rd
October for the improvement of roads and sanitation both of
which continue to be neglected.
No important changes occurred during the year,
wa s repouti^ that under Russian pressure S arhang
Mukhtari, C hief of Police, Isfahan, accompanied by the Chief
of the Investigation Department, Isfahan, visited Yezd in
November to enquire into the causes which led to the burning of
the Tudeh premises in Yezd. The Farmandar told them that it
was merely a flare up between opposing factions in Yezd and
that it ha d no political backgroung.
Naib Sarhang Jafar Khan Sharifi, the Chief of Police
was suddenly recalled to Tehran on the 5th January and Captain
Sharifi wa s sent.in May to take charge, to the great relief
o f the population.
Gk ptain Ezadi was Officer Commanding the Gendarmes.
SBCURITy-
In Ma y, several cases of lawlessness occurred, part-
cicularly in the south and south western parts of Yezd district
where raiding gangs were holding up travellers. They extended
their operations to the close proximity of the town itself and
burglaries increased to an ala rming extent"later. Investiga
tions showed that in some cases the gendarmes themselves were
committing burglaries and that they were hand in glove with
P 1 ®. roD ^ ers ' August four automobiles were held up near
Taft by robbers armed with Brno rifles and the passengers were
relieved ot about Romans 10,000/-. In September armed bandits
U L a P assen g? r lorry near Shahr-i-Ba bak but as the onlv
rifle they ha d failed to function they were overpowered bv the
passengers and brought into Yezd and handed over to the police!
ia./.