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'MILITARY REPORT ON PERSIA. VOLUME IV, PART I.' [25v] (55/168)
The record is made up of 1 volume (80 folios). It was created in 1922-1923. 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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42
arrass sAESSTiS
to 600 to 800 yards.
No pilots are needed.
i. „ e+onm and a motor launcn. the
The Customs have » ^ an(1 d ,. aws 6 feet of
fomer, ;kl i 3 ’ some 30 feet long and draws about
water. ^ 3 M.’s Consul has another steam
1 whieh is of the same dimensions as that belonging
1 small motor launch of the Eoyal Indian
Marine is under the charge of the 0. C. troops.
The locality is not adapted for dredging, unless such
work is undertaken on a large scale m connection with
harbour construction.
Naiband Camp.-^bm the Headquarters of the South
Persia Rifles were moved from Bandar Abbas up 19M,
and the two other chief centres were formed at Storas and
Kerman, Bandar Abbas became- the base for the latter
centre, and in addition for the former until the opening
of the Bushire—Shiraz road in 1918 by the Bushire Fie
Force. During this time a large camp was toraed at
Naiband, some three miles to the east of Bandar Abbas,
number of solidly constructed permanent type buildings,
among which was a pier, were erected, the termination of
the Great War putting a stop to the completion of t!ie
scheme for the formation of a base.
Landing facilities—There is an unfinished pier opposite
the camp 1,400 feet in length by 15 feet in breadth, builtof
wooden piles on a stone foundation, capable of taking
the weight of any guns which could be transported across
country in Persia. There is a steam crane, capacity i
tons, on broad guage rails, which runs 100 yards back from
the head of the pier. A light trolley line runs from the
head of the pier to the Military Works yard in the camp.
(At the present moment however there are only four trucks
left.) A pipe line from water tanks north of the camp
is laid on to the head of the pier for the use of launches,
etc. At high water there is a depth of 9-12 feet of water
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The volume is entitled Military Report on Persia. Volume IV Part I. Persian Baluchistan, Kerman and Bandar Abbas. (Simla, Government Central Press, 1923). The volume was originally published in 1921.
The report contains sections on history, geography, population, climate and health, resources, military affairs, communications, and political matters. Appendices give the following information: details of nomad tribes of Kerman Province; a list of Chiefs and Headmen in Persian Baluchistan, who are in receipt of subsidies from the Indo-European Telegraph Department (IETD); statistics of natural resources; and distribution statement of the Sarhad Levy Corps on 1 July 1922. There are also seven maps (folios 75-81), entitled:
- Map accompanying Military Report on Persia Vol. IV Part I.
- Kerman and environs
- Bandar Abbas
- Diagram of Mirjawa station yard
- Diagram of Duzdap station yard
- Signalling and heliograph posts between Chahbar and Geh
- Sketch Map shewing communications between Kerman and Saidabad
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (80 folios)
- Arrangement
Includes a list of contents on folio 4; and an index on folios 67-73.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 82; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. Pagination: the volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- 'MILITARY REPORT ON PERSIA. VOLUME IV, PART I.'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:74v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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