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. u £ r T,h Juuo . . carried out a tour of in&pcction of the Dashti
area, returning to Bushire on 22nd June. He le. t for Shiraz
the 25rd June, 1944.
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(h) It is reported that a dhow A term adopted by British officials to refer to local sailing vessels in the western Indian Ocean. from a Jangi&tanx port
vras seized at Bahrain vhile attempting to leave island with
a consignment of smuggled piece-goods to the valu^ i Rials
90,000. The consignment is said to have been confiscated and the
dhow A term adopted by British officials to refer to local sailing vessels in the western Indian Ocean. , vri.th its crew, to have since been released.
III. COMMUNICATIONS.
It was announced bp the local agent of Iran-Tour
on the 23th June j;hat an air service was being opened on the Tehran-
Isfahan -Shiraz-Bushire line and that the first plane would land at Bushire
on julp 1st. Rates to be charged for Air Mail have not yet been
announced. la&senger rates v/ere published as follows
Bush ire-Shiraz Rials 2000
Bushire Isfahan rt 4500
Bu&hire-Tehran rt 5000
IY. PUBLIC HEALTH .
Malaria has been on the increase and has been of a
more severe type. Influenza and pneumonia have almost disappeared.
One or two cases of broncho-pneumonia have occurred among children
suffering from whooping-cough.
v * TRIBAL & POLITICAL .
(a) The military garrison at Bushire has been pro
vided with one Jeep. This is the first vehicle of its own that the
garrison has received- has already been made use of by the Officer
Commanding troops for several tours to Dashti.
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(b) The military party referred to at paragraph II
(g) above met all the chiefs of Tangistan and Bashti v/hile on tour
in those- areas. It is reported that -Sarhang Tabatabai re-appointed
Aii Razmi and Ghulam Razmi as Rais-i-Intizamat for Khurmuj and
Balook-i-Da&hti respectively. This was confirmed by Ali Razmi v/hen
he came to Bushire recently and paid a visit t& His Majesty’s
Vice-Consul. He told the latter that the military authorities had
indeed appointed him as Rais-i-Intizamat for Khurmuj but that v/hen
nr had sought confirmation from the Governor, the Governor had
expressed his ignorance of any authority for the appointment and
had simply informed him that the matter v/ould require a reference
to Tehran.
(c) Further reports of Ali Chahpiri’s malpractices
in Tangietan have been received during the fortnight under report.
It appears to be indisputably true that he has sold to the tyashqais
( at a handsome profit to himself) by far the greater part of the
consignment of 2000 yards of cheap Government cloth Tecently issued
to him by the Persian authorities for distribution at controlled
rate*s in Tangistan.
His further misdemeanours have included the exaction
of levies of v/heat in respect of the recent crop, from cultivators
of the area, thou^ri he had no reason to be unaware of the fact that
the crop was virtually a total failure. In lieu of wheat he has
accepted Rials 6 for each kilo of the amount demanded.
(d) Ali Razmi of Khurmuj reports that Ali Ismail is
now in the neighbourhood of Abdan negotiating terms for coming in.
The military Governor of Khurmuj has been holding discussions with
him and it is said that these have formed the object of the frequent
visits to Dashti of the Bushire Officer Commanding troops ( see
paragraph V (a) of this Summary). The results of the negotiations
aiC not Known.