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Rafsinjan, tide paragraph 69, and the Per
sian Manager from Dizful has taken over
charge at Rafsinjah.
109. Reference paragraph 92. The
three Directors of the Kerman Spinning
Mill Company returned from Tehran in the
middle of the month. The Minister of
Couit turned a deaf ear to their proposals
to utilize the funds for any purpose other
than that for which they were collected.
When the question of the inability of the
Kerman share-holders to raise the remain
ing necessary funds was put forward, he
(the Ministers suggesting getting more
subscriptions from Bandar Abbas and pro
mised to help in the matter.
The Parsi merchants of Yezd are offended
at the treatment they received at the hands
of their Muslim fellow-citizens. Among
other things they complain that they were
not even allowed to appoint a man of their
section on the Yezd Board of Directors for
the spinning mill to be erected at that
place. In the circumstances they pefer
to subscribe to the Kerman concern instead
of the Yezd one. The Kerman Directors
wanted to avail themselves of the opor-
tunity oflered by this disagreement, but
Arbab Kaikhusrau, the Parsi representa-
tative in the Medjliss, advised the Yezd
Parsis to desist from taking such a step
as it would only tend to strain their rela
tions with the Mohammedans still further.
Communications.
110. The Chief of the Road department,
accompanied by Mirza Abu Turab Khan,
a land-owner of Khabis, proceeded to Teh
ran on the 3rd and returned on the 28th.
His visit was in connection with the motor
road to Khabis, vide paragraph 77.
111. The heavy rains, referred to in para
graph 107 above, caused serious damage
to the roads in the province especially to
the Bandar Abbas-Kerman section, near
the Tang-i-Zagh. A portion of the new
motor alignment to Khabis has been washed
away and the road between Kerman and
Yezd is in a deplorable condition. Three
mails from Bandar Abbas were overdue at
the end of the month, but the road autho
rities were employing a large number of
coolies A term used to describe labourers from a number of Asian countries, now considered derogatory. near Tang-i-Zagh. The Governor-
General was informed by the Chief of the
Roads that 2,000 coolies A term used to describe labourers from a number of Asian countries, now considered derogatory. were working on the
Bandar Abbas-Kerman road, but His Ex
cellency, in conversation with His Majesty’s
Consul, did not deny that this was an
exaggerated estimate.
Security.
112. Seyyid Karim of Khabis, who had
for three years committed various actsJafr
robbery between Khabis (now called
dad) and Naiband and on two occasions
defied the Amnieh forces, was captured and
brought in to Kerman at the beginning of
the month.
British Interests.
113. Mr. Heaton, of the A. P. O. C. Ispa
han, arrived at Kerman on the 4t,li and after
appointing one of the Company’s own em
ployees to their Kerman agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. returned
to his headquarters.
114. The sad news of the sudden death
of the Hon’ble Lieutenant-Colonel Sir High
Biscoe, K.B.E., 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. in the
Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , was received on the 20th and
the Consulate flag flown at half-mast for
that day. The information was communi
cated to the British subjects and firms in
Kerman who all requested His Majesty’s
Consul to convey their condolences to the
proper quarter.
115. Dr. G. E. Dodson, C.M.S., accom
panied by the Rev. H. E. J. Biggs, Mr.
F. T. B. Snow and Miss Woodroffe, left for
Ispahan on the 24th, to attend the annual
C. M. S. Educational Conference.
Russian Interests.
116. Reference paragraph 100. The last
Russian member of the Bandar Abbas staff
of the Soviet Trade Representation return
ed to Kerman on the 2nd.
117. M. Kostionkovski, the head of the
above representation, called on His Ma-
jesty’s Consul on the 9th. The visit was
duly returned on the 12th.
German Interests.
118. Reference paragraph 103. Dr.
G. S. Sauer did not proceed to Zahidan but
after a stay at Bam, owing to illness return
ed to Rayin, where he is believed to be at
present.
Miscellaneous.
119. Reference paragraph 82. Mr. Balls
returned to Kerman on the 31st intending
to proceed to the Jupar hills for further
botanical research.
G. A. RICHARDSON,
British Consulate, ^ His Majesty's
Kerman, ^ Consul '
( Kerman.
3rd August 1932. )