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Coll 28/17 ‘Persia; Diaries; Kerman Consular 1931–1939.’ [76v] (152/1069)
The record is made up of 1 file (533 folios). It was created in 29 Jun 1931-31 Aug 1939. 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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Military.
1S3. The Chief of the Amineh forces in
Kerman received orders from Tehran in the
first week of the month that, until further
notice, he should receive his orders from the
military officer commanding the Kerman
Brigade.
Communications .
164. The Tang-i-Zagh section of the
Kerman-Bandar Abbas motor road was
reported to have been damaged by rain at
the end of the month and the mail due from
Bandar on the 31st was said to have been
held up on the Bandar Abbas side of the
Tang.
165. News of a motor lorry having broken
down between Gurg and Shurgaz, on the
Zahidan-Kerman motor road, and of two
passengers and a driver having died of
thirst, was received in Kerman in the middle
of the month.
Security.
166. A certain Hamza Abdul of Tazarj
(Aqta-Afshar) was shot for highway robbery
by the military authorities in the beginning
of the month.
167. Reference paragraph 132.
The parties responsible for the robbery
on the Sirjan-Rafsinjan road are reported
to have been identified and captured by
the Amnieh authorities. The robbers are
said to be two men from the Amnieh, two
civilians from Sirj an and two peasants as
accomplices.
168. A party of seven armed robbers
from the district of Aqta looted a caravan
carrying wool, ghee and other commodities
from Bam to Kerman, at a place called
Kala-Shur, between Mahun and Rayin, in
the middle of the month. The robbers were
pursued by five men from the Amnieh as far
as the neighbourhood of Baft, where two of
the robbers were killed and the remainder
captured. The stolen property is, however,
said to have disappeared and certain Amnieh
men in the district of Aqta are suspected of
having been in collusion with the robbers.
169. Several petty robberies, chiefly of
an isolated nature, were reported to have
been commited during the month, not
only on the roads but also in various villages
to the E. S. E. of the province, by men from
the Buchaquchi tribe, whose chief, the
notorious Hussein Khan Shuja Sultan,
until recently an officer in the Amnieh forces,
is said to have been transferred, or removed,
to Ears against his will.
Miscellaneous.
170. Mrs. 0. A. Merritt-Hawkes, the lady
journalist, arrived in Kerman, via Yezd
on the 7th June and left for Isfahan on the
3rd July. 0^
H. E. the Governor-General was excep
tionally helpful in assisting Mrs. Merritt-
Hawkes to meet other local officials and
obtaining information on various subjects.
171. Messrs. Lay and Sleath of the Stuart
Memorial College, Isfahan, paid a visit to
Kerman at the end of the me nth.
Bandar Abbas.
Local Affairs.
172. Agha Ismail Khan, Bahadur, Gov
ernor of Bandar Abbas, left for the Ginau
Hills on the 20th.
173. Reference paragraph 141.
Samavi, the Mustantiq (Investigating
Judge), who did not join his colleagues in
asking for leave without pay for the summer
months, was transferred to Kerman for the
time the Bandar Abbas Court remains
closed, and left for Kerman on the 10th.
174. Reference paragraph 142.
Mirza Ghulam Ali Khan Suroush, Finance
Inspector for the Gulf Ports, returned from
Minab on the 5th and left for Bushire by
S. S. “ Varsova ” on the 7th.
175. Sheikh Ahmad, the JS'z-Sheikh of Old
Hen jam (Arab) was arrested by the police
authorities at that place and brought to
Bandar Abbas on the 21st June. His
arrest was said to be in connection with the
murder, by his people, of the late Mirza
Abdul Khaliq, the Mudir of Henjam, in
1925. He has since managed to obtain
freedom from the Police authorities by
undertaking to present himself at Bandar
Abbas when required, and left for Henjam
on the 4th July.
Military.
176. Naib Sarhang Abdullah Khan Arab
Nejad, Officer Commanding Military Forces
at Bandar Abbas, proceeded to Minab on
the 8th with a view to obtaining an inter
view with Abdul Hussein Kameran
of Bashakird and proposing peace terms,
which the latter is now said to have refused.
. The Officer Commanding returned to
Bandar Abbas on the 27 th.
177. Thirty recruits from Minab are re
ported to have deserted from Ginau Hills.
Four of them were arrested at Minab and
brought to Bandar Abbas on the 9th and
the heads of the respective villages are being
pressed to produce the remaining deserters
or provide substitutes.
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Printed and typewritten monthly reports submitted by the British Consul, or Acting/Officiating Consul at Kerman (George Alexander Richardson; Abdul Alim L K; Major Cecil Henning Lincoln; Lieutenant-Colonel George Arthur Falconer). The reports cover affairs in the Persian [Iranian] province of Kerman, as well as in the towns of Kerman and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. port of Bandar Abbas [Bandar-e ʻAbbās]:
- the activities of local officials and local government, including courts and customs
- activities of the Persian police, military and navy
- communications, including roads, railways, and trade routes
- municipal affairs, including public works
- health and sanitation, including reports of outbreaks of disease
- security, including reports of crime
- climate, including rainfall and floods
- agriculture and harvests (wheat, barley, opium)
- local trade and commercial activities, including carpet production, the activities of the National Bank of Persia/Iran, and the Government’s institution of monopoly companies
- British interests, including the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC), the Indo-European Telegraph, and the movements of British individuals
- foreign interests in Kerman, including Russian, German and Japanese
- the arrival and departure of vessels on the Kerman coast, and, attached to a number of reports for 1935, detailed lists of cargoes
Minute papers are enclosed in front of many reports, containing notes made by 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. staff commenting on items of note in the report.
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- 1 file (533 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
The monthly reports for each year are numbered 1 to 12 (January to December). Paragraphs in the reports are also numbered, starting from 1 for the first paragraph of the January report, and increasing up to the last paragraph of the December report.
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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 534; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located at the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 2-533; these numbers are also written in pencil and circled, but are crossed through.
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- Coll 28/17 ‘Persia; Diaries; Kerman Consular 1931–1939.’
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- front, front-i, 2r:8v, 10r:534v, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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