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him to supply them with women will long be remembered*
Our Russian allies, though far better behaved, showed
no desire to cooperate and remained inscrutable and aloof* A
most unpleasant incident was narrowly averted when they defied
the order of the British Movement Control not to move a certain
convoy owing to insecurity on the road* ’rtie 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. as a
whole heaved a sigh of relief when both these bodies took their
departure*
'Famine conditions continued to prevail on the Persian
Coast particularly in the outlying districts* Insecurity in
Fare, particularly on the Bush ire Shiraz road, deteriorated and
the inability of the Persian Government to deal with Kasir Khan
^ashqai might have resulted in his complete mastery over Fare
had the tide of the success in the war in Bur ope not turned so
strongly in favour of the Allies* In Bushire itself the closing
down in August of the Truck Assembly unit of the U.K*C.C. threw
large numbers of local labourers out of employment, many of whom
emigratsd to the Khorramshahr area, where work offered.
Much embarrassment was caused by the institution of
Consular Liaison Officers for the supply of cereals* In 194i
locum tenems had stated that this work would be conducted by
this 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. itself, but the communication was overlooked and
the area apparently attached to Shiraz. Before the situation
could be regularised, (and it was never clear at any time what
the functions of consular or consular liaison officers in the
matter of cereals actually were,) it was found that this officer
had granted a number of contracts for areas which did not exist
to men who had no grain, and it was not surprising under the
circumstances that one of the contractors, a prominent Shirazi
of the name of Hishmat al Mamalik (who had accepted a contract
purely as a speculation) produced no more than of his total
contract of 2000 tons* Indeed but for the assistance of a local
landowner, Fathullah Khan, the town of Bushire would have starved