'MILITARY REPORT ON PERSIA. VOLUME IV, PART I.' [53r] (110/168)
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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97
ments, 2 ft. thick and 5 ft. liigh, fringe the outer
edge of the walls and machiconli galleries are also fre
quently provided. The loopholes are usually badly plan
ned, and th$ field of fire from them greatly restricted.
These forts are commonly built on the edge of a grove
near a karez and have a clear field of fire for about 100
yards. The approaches are usually easy, as the date
groves afford good cover.
Mountain guns are of not much use against the majority.
They could, however, demolish the battlements of the towers
and* assist the infantry in keeping down the enemy’s fire,
while gun cotton was being lodged in a suitable place
to blow up the wall or gate.
The Arms Traffic in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
.
The chief place in the Gulf whence there is a small
but steady stream of arms into Persia is Koweit, where
considerable quantities of .303 service rifles and ammuni
tion have been accumulated.
These arms are exported from Koweit in two directions.
By far .the larger number are smuggled across in dhows
to the Persian coast between Bandar Dilam and a point
about 40 miles south of Lingeh. Considerably smaller
numbers however, are carried overland to Gatr and Dubai
on the Arabian coast whence, as opportunity offers, they
are sent across in dhows which trade principally between
Minab and Chahbar on the Makran coast. Along the
strip of coast between Bandar Dilam and Lingeh, during
the first nine months of 1920 at least six to eight hundred
rifles were landed at various times from Koweit and neigh
bourhood. 95 per cent were modern pattern .303 service
weapons, the remainder being chiefly Turkish Mausers.
Each rifle is usually accompanied by 100 rounds of ammu
nition. Besides this large quantities of ammunition are
carried over separately and in the period above mentioned
amounted to as much as 100,000 rounds.
The price of a service .303 rifle ^ith 40-50 rounds near
the coast between Bandar Dilam and Lingeh is 40 to 45
Tmnans (120—140
Rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
). i
The price of ammunition is 12 Tumans (40 RupeesJ,
per 100 rounds.
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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
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- 1 volume (80 folios)
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Includes a list of contents on folio 4; and an index on folios 67-73.
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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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