Coll 30/5(1) 'Persian Gulf Diaries: Bushire Residency (Persian) Jany. [sic] 1941.' [‎362r] (724/938)

Mary of the British Aesidency and. Consulate General, Buehire,
for s^c juried from lat to loth :.iarch 1942* *
I • ¥OVBMCHTS* «
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(a) Major iuHolmee, MBS, XMD«, Keeidenuy urge on, Buehire,
returned from tour ci the aTuc Coast oa the 12th Maxell*
(b) Mr.a # l^Hallowa, Under wearetary to the political
Kesident, and Mr *B*wiaclair, /*ddlti on^l Vice Consul, Buahire,
returned from a tour of the X&zerun and iamaeeanl districts on
the 2nd £axch«
(c) Hr*B*Sinclair proceeded to .hiraz on the icth and
returned on the i3th March*
(d) Mr#T,E. hogers. Vice Consul, Butihire, visited Gan-
awt.h end Gach Bar an on the 12th March*
II. I^CaL re?131,05
(a) Ahmadl, an Inspector in the Ministry of Finance,
arrived from .hiraz on larch 10th £*nd returned to hiraz on the
14th March* Curing hie fctay at Buehire he called on K.B.M’s
Consul, Buehlre, and dlecueeed the food question as affecting
{ Buehire and the places depending on it*
(1) )r*Ali Yusufi, in charge of the Irrigation teua in
^hahankureh, 30 miles north east of Bushire, came on a short
vifcit to Bushire on the 12th March and returned to Baadubad on
the 14 th •
III * TCiiJilQU OF?IJ IaXB
Mi**G oryelyehev, from the soviet Legation in Tehran,
arrived on the 12th March and joined the iiuesian Mission here*
Lieutenant I eke of the u.^.^rqy arrived to join the
^erloan Mission*
IV* aaNIJK *
Two eargurds arrived here on the 6th March and comaenced
an inspection of the working of the department• The author-
itiee of this department were credited with the arrest of a few
highway robbers and the seizure of some bitge of contraband sugar
while they were being carried to hlras*
v. . n i i *
In order to have a better control over arrivals and
departures, the . dice authorities here were empowered by the
Central iolioe Organisation in Tehran to resume the old system
of checking the identity of travellers going upcountry and also
to send their officials to steamers calling at Bushlre harbour
for the cane purpose*
VI* iCONOMIC cnTbvTI^H
l&) with the introduction of the ration system at
Bushire the authorities of the Economics department made arrange
ments to t«ke over the sugar, tea and loaf sugar given to this
Company for sale at Buehire and for supplying the districts j.nd
the other plaoss depending on Bushire, they carried out the scheiai
on the IGth March when the Company was finally oissolved*
cljullar action, it is said, is bein* taken to wind up the .ug&r
and Tea companies in other towns and provinces in Iran* The
economics Jepartment will henceforward deal with the rationing
of tug&r and tea to consumers* The local economics de^jurt^ent