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In April one bale and one case of drugs were carried off north of Daliki
shots being exchanged between the bandits and Amnieh. Numerous rob
beries and raids were perpetrated in the Kuhgdlu, and one near Dehbid by
Boir Ahmedi bands. In Qir and Karzin a, Kadkhuda was killed by a
Margumari band (Qashqai). In May a car was attacked at the Mukhak
pass on the road to Jahrum, and a man wounded. A detachment sent to
pursue the assailants was itself in difficulties and 50 soldiers had to be sent
off hastily to extricate them. In the same month above the Tang-i-Turkan
pass between Kazarun and Kamarji a band from Banau attacked a car, rob
bing two well known ladies of Shiraz in it, and a large stone hurled by one
robber crushed the skull of a small child, whose father is in the employ of
the Anglo-Persian Oil Company. Sixteen loads of sugar and cottons were
carried off at Gunbid-i-Sabz, 8 miles north of Shiraz : while in the Firu-
zabad district Qareh and bis band began pillaging the harvest and wounded
several villagers- There was a bad robbery on the Shiraz-Niriz road about
1.6 miles the Shiraz side of Niriz, when a band of 35 descended on 3 motor
lorries halted in a dust storm, relieving the passengers, under threats of
death, if they moved, of some 7,000 tumans and 20 bales of cottons and
bundles of ready-made clothing. By this time the Amnieh guards -were not
allowing even mule caravans to pass at night between Daliki and Zinian.
A soldier was shot dead at Rahdar by a robber and several petty robberies
occurred between Kazarun and Kamarij at the end of June : on the
Behbehan-Pazanan road the Bear Ahmedis attacked Military posts killing
2 and wounding 2 men. and three Amnieh guards on the Behbehan-Dilam
road, besides carrying off flocks from villages in that region.
In July more sweeping raids were made than at any time since the new
Persian army came into existence. On the 9th the garrison at Kazarun
stirred up a hornets' nest when with local levies they attacked Banau village
hoping to catch the leaders of that band, but only infuriated the Banauis by
killing two women and several villagers. On the 12th the telegraph wires
were cut away for about 500 yards and insulators smashed four miles south
of Kazarun : one iron standard was broken and thrown down the Kamarij
kutal. On the 13th in the Tang-i-Turkan some 80 mounted Boir Ahmedis
and 40 on foot led by the notorious Luhrasp, carried off 84 mules and their
loads belonging to two caravans. Three days later a motor lorry was attack
ed and burnt four miles north of Kazarun by the Banaui band. On the
19th July the Banauis carried off 25 mules with their loads from a caravan
of tea and piece-goods at Churum (between Kunar Takhteh and Kamarij) :
on the 29th a lorry carrying an Indian sowar In the East India Company army and later Indian Army, an ordinary native cavalryman or mounted cavalryman. of the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. ran into a
skirmish between the Banauis and Amnieh and military guards on the
Rudak kutal and had to use his rifle in defence of the lorry- On the 31st
the same band of some 60 men surrounded Kamarij village, which had to
be relieved b^ troops being hurried from Kazarun and adjoining posts.
Earlier in the month a deputation of farmers and peasants from Firuzabad
district carae to complain of pilfering by Qareh and his band, with whom
about the 20th a military detachment there had an unsuccessful brush.
On the night of August 1st a lorry belonging to an 'Iraqi Jew residing
at blnraz, en route to Yazd with merchandise, was shot up at Ab-barik, 17
mi es rem Shiraz on the main road to Isfahan, a French Syrian protege
being Med outright, and the driver an 'Iraqi being mortally wounded On
u 1 ona tel ® gra P h Wlr ? s were cut 7 miles north of Kazarun by the Banaui
band 600 yards of wire being removed : while on the 4th a car, also owned
and driven by an Iraqi, coming from Kerman with passengers was fired on
by two men m the gorge 3 miles beyond the tomb of Sa'di outside Shiraz, the
H w r 1 '' a ? othe f 1 Ira V la ^ having his lung and spine hit, and
o afterwards m hospital. On the 10th: a car was attacked in the
lang-i-Kaumz between Fasa and the Niriz-Shiraz road. On the 21st the
-Banauis attacked a ruined caravansarai in the Dashti-i-Barm • while two
ndles from 6 Shiraz 8° E SUrkhl trlbe 0arilied 0ff large flocks 111 Kwar 45