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08-00 Chiragh despatched to Yakdar,
our first telephone station to
collect food to be stored at
Luh.
Chiragh is reported to have collected
some 80 bags of dates there
and to have sent them to Luh
that same afternoon. Their
forces are divided and Murad
is now encamped with the
main bodj of about 180 at
Kanian, about 12 miles east
of Jask.
Murad has again sent word to Abdul
Husain informing him that
hostilities having commenced
he should join.
A launch arrived from Bandar Abbas
on th A 21st with Naib Jaaffar
Khan and 50 soldiers to re
inforce Old Jask.
All people leaving Jask are now T
being subjected to drastic
cross-examination by the
Police/’
On the 30th August the Clerk in charge
reported that the Persian troops
stationed at Old Jask had followed
Murad and Chiragh as far as Luh, where
thev surrounded some huts containing
women and children. They recovered
some useless rifles from the huts.
The present whereabouts of Murad and
Chiragh have not yet been definitely
established, but there is a strong rumour
that the former has gone to Arabia and
the latter is in biding in the Gabrig
hills.
On the 25th August s. s. “ Baroda ”
brought to Jask about 200 soldiers from
Charbar, and some more were expected.
Charbar .—According to a report dated
Charbar, the 22nd August, there are dis
turbances in Qasr-i-Qand, Geh, and the
interior of Baluchistan. The Baluchis
are fighting among themselves.
There is general unemployment in
Charbar and in Dashtiyari, and many
residents have already left for Gwadur.
102. BANDAR ABBAS.
Customs. — On the 8th August, the
Customs launch “Gilan” on her way
from Jask seized three sailing boats near
Sirik, and brought them to Bandar
Abbas. Two of them which belonged to
Arabs and were weather bound were
released but the third belonging to a
Persian, and which had on board 38
bags of rice from Oman was confiscated.
103. MOHAMMERAH.
(а) Ir,security .— On the night of 6th-
7th August, a band of armed robbers
attacked the village of Nahr-i-Siah, near
the bangalow of the Manager of the
Mohammerah Branch of the Imperial
Bank of Persia, killing one girl and
wounding a villager. On hearing the
firing the Officer Commanding the Troops
hastened to the spot with 30 regulars,
but the robbers had already decamped.
Several petty thefts took place in the
town.
On the night of 23/24th the house of
Nakhuda Abbas (Captain of the Cus
toms launch “ Gilan ”) was broken into
and property worth Rials 600 was carried
away.
On the 25th house of Mansur Khan
Nasiri, a Customs Official, was broken
into and property valued Rials 900
removed.
(б) Military .—55 cases of arms and
ammunition imported from Germany
on the 9th August by German ship
“ Weissenfels ” were released from the
Customs House by the Officer Command
ing Troops, Mohammerah, and des
patched to Ahwaz on the 23rd.
The Military purchased 1,000 bags of
English cement through a Jew merchant
of Basrah, Salih Hoogi, and sent them to
Ahwaz on the 24th August.
104. IRAQ INTERESTS.
On the 2nd August Iraq Vice-Consul
at Mohammerah notified that its desig
nation in future was to be “ The Iraq
Government Consulate for Khuzistan,
Mohammerah. ”
Abdul Majid Beg Allawi, the Iraq
Consul at Mohammerah intended to cele
brate the Coronation day of His Majesty
King Paizal on the 23rd August but he
was unable to do so as all the stores and
provisions imported by him for the pur
pose were seized by the Customs pending
the receipt of permission from Tehran.
E. H. GASTRELL,
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. and
H. B. M.’s Consul-General, Bushire.
British Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. and Consulate-Genera!,
Bushire, the 20th August 1932.