Coll 30/5(1) 'Persian Gulf Diaries: Bushire Residency (Persian) Jany. [sic] 1941.' [‎269r] (538/938)

II. LOCAL AFFAIHa
(a) Local employees of the Persian Governuent 'vere recently
allowed to take t-o months salary in advance, They have
nO' 1 been told that a ( uarter oi' this sun is to be regarded
as ■; bonus and that the remainder is to be reoaid in twelve
monthly instalments.
(b) ‘bne Jhaikh Ghulam v:ao recently arrested b’ - the
Gendarmerie and accused of having been involved in the
■'urerase oi a quantity o.t' ammunition Tron the Gendarmerie
Geoot at Bus]'ire. /hen the Dashti 0} ief, Ghul-n xlazni
heard.% this, he nromptly sent g letter to this office
statinr :hat he had sent this man to Bushire to purchase
stores •*nd askini for assi tance in se cur inf his release.
(c) It is learnt that the Bushire Luniciorlity rnd the
Bolice nd Finance Departments have now been olaced under
the direct control of the Central Government. If this
is true, the only offices which still remain under the
"Jstandar at ohiras ere t) e Covernorate and the Foodstuffs
control Denar tment, Ih.e hope is be inf generally exnressed
that the whole of the loc 1 administration -dll eventually
be pieced under Tel ran.
(d) As a result of representations by the Chief of
Police, sanction has been received for"a snail increase
in the strength of the Bushire Police Force. Ne^
recruits are apparently to be paid 40 tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. Plus a
10,0 allowance per month.
(e) On the BOth January, ten people, ”] o r, ere re^.urnin^
to their homes at Halileh (situated on the coast so 12^
miles south of Lushire), v, ere attached by robbers ‘ id nil
their possessions seized. One of the ten was merc^essly
beaten and suffered serious injury. fhe same robbers,
be Tanpistanis, are said to have met another
their return journey <nd to have shot and
of its members oho was rash enough to try and
resistance.
most inopportune moment, hen Bushire is
• food crisis, tie Governor, A<vri Kasmai,
has been Placed under suspension, and so far no one
has been appointed to carry on until the arrival of tte
new Governor from Tehran.
humours rec.ardinf .asmai's downfall be .can to
circulate on the 4th February when it was said that
Acai hi 'mat, (see para I(b)(ii) of this ounmary), had
reported to the Ustandar an irregularity ov^r the running
of one of the Bakeries. Bu'hire's nev-s centr ' - the
Persian telegraol office - issued progress re arts from
time to time and on the 6th February the public learnt
that Aural j-Ii^unat and ^artip Firuz had had a "conversation"
on the subject of Aasmai's future over the telegraph
mires. shortly after’ards the ( overnor ’^as summoned
to attend an encuiry to be held, apparently, by Bushire's
^mall Causes Court. At this enquiry, nothing very definite
was established against ..asmai and for a brief interval
he felt that he had scored a victory over those whom,
he alleged, had schemed for his removal. On the 11th
February however, he received a telegram from the Ustandar
ordering him to ppoceed to ^hiraz forthwith.
There is of course little doubt that Aral Aasmai
has accepted bribes, but in ceneral his regime has been
less objectionable in this respect than that of his pre
decessors. A large part of tie present local action
against /
thought to
caravan on
killed one
offer some
(f) At a
faced • ith