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'Administration Reports 1905-1910' [‎186v] (377/616)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (304 folios). It was created in 1907-1911. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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ADMINISTRATION EEPORT OF THE PERSIAN GULF The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. POLITICAL 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.
Customs figures become available at the end of March 1909 it is anticinat rl
that the year's working will show a very serious falling off.
German activity. —During the year 9 German steamers called on the out
ward voyage, and of these 3 visited the port on the homeward journey. The"
landed 16,152 packages (of which 13,410 were iron and steel bars and sheets y
1,511 sugar, and 35 synthetic indigo) and took away 683 packages, of which
507 were gum tragacanth.
It has been rumoured throughout the year that the German firm of
Wonckhaus proposes to open a branch at this port with an European Agent
in charge, but up to date (February 1909) this has not been done. Mr. Brown
the Lingah agent of the firm, and a Mr. Rumfeld, also a member of the same
firm, visited the port for a few days. A M. Arratoon, employed by Messrs
Wonckhaus arrived in Bunder Abbas in December from Lar where he had
been sent to open up trade, a project he was forced to abandon owing to the
local disturbances.
A visit was paid to the port by the German Commercial delegate of the
Berlin Foreign Office, Herr Ku/t Jung, to study possible openings for trade
but his stay was of short duration and it remains to be seen what wai
effected.
Russian activity. —During the year 4 Eussian steamers visited the port 4
times on their outward voyage, landing 822 packages only, of which 500 were
oil and 117 piece-goods; on the homeward voyage they also called 4 times
taking 609 packages, of which 529 were gum tragacanth. It is difficult to
see how these vessels can possibly pay even a moiety of their way on such
results for a year's working, which it may be added are lower than those of
last year.
Settlement of claims. —A fair number of claims have arrived at a settle
ment but the safety which Lar affords to fraudulent bankrupts has been
utilized by more than one Lari trader, and the sum total of claims which
have had to be referred to Shiraz for such action as the Fars authorities can
take now amounts to over Krans 150,000. The whole of this amount is
owing to British traders and it is to be feared is likely to remain owing for
some considerable time longer in the present state of anarchy into which Lar
has lately been plunged by the Seyyid Abdul Hussain.
Small claims have as a rule been satisfactorily settled and on the whole
with fair promptitude.
Enterprises—A Monsieur Benedetto, an Italian mining engineer, accom
panied by an Armenian interpreter, arrived early in the year and spent some
months at the Muin-ut-Tujjar's sulphur quarries on Kishm Island; he left in
April after having had to invoke the assistance of His Majesty's Consul to
obtain the salary agreed upon and which was due to him.
Though the landing of Pathans at Mask at has been interdicted with a
view to minimizing the traffic in arms but little if any decrease at all has
resulted.
Arms now find their way to Bunder Abbas from Lar and are sold in
the bazaars with impunity. The Customs administration made a few feeble
and half-hearted attempts to take action which generally resulted in very
small captures only. Pathans now arrive in Bunder Abbas in large numbers
without camels or caravans and generally by mail-steamers, openly buy
camels at exorbitant rates which they load up with a few loads and then
move down to the Biyaban or Mekran coast where their real loads of rifles
and ammunition for the north are picked up.
The Deputy-Governor's tufangchis materially assist the nefarious traffic
by carrying the arms from the sellers in the bazaars to the Afghans' encamp
ments, the object being to prevent any Afghan laying himself open to the
suspicion of being dubbed a gun-runner.
A new method has been resorted to of late—that of sending Laris and
Awazis to Maskat to make purchases of arms now that Pathan^ cannot
themselves land at that port.

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The volume contains Administration Report on the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Political 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. for 1905-1906 (Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India, 1907); Administration Report on the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Political 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. and Maskat Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. for 1906-1907 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1908); Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Political 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. and the Maskat Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. for 1907-1908 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1909); Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Political 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. and the Maskat Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. for April-December1908 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1909); Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Political 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. for the Year Ending 31st December 1909 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1911); and Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Political 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. for the Year 1910 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1911).

The Reports contain reviews by the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. and chapters on each of the consulates, agencies, and other administrative regions that made up the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. 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. . The Reports contain information on political developments, territorial divisions, local administration, principal tribes, British personnel and appointments, trade and commerce, naval and marine matters, communications, judicial matters, archaeology, pearl fisheries, the slave trade, arms and ammunition traffic, medical matters and public health, oil, notable visitors and events, meteorological data, and related topics.

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1 volume (304 folios)
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There is a list of contents at the front of each Report.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the front cover and terminates at 306 on the back cover. These numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and can be found in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio. The following folios need to be folded out to be read: ff. 40, 261.

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