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Coll 28/121 ‘Persia. Bandar Abbas Consulate Diaries.’ [‎211r] (422/439)

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The record is made up of 1 file (216 folios). It was created in 1 Jun 1943-12 Feb 1947. 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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Confidential
Br . itish O ffioialB
189*
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Bandar ABbas ^iaxy Wo *8 for
tlie month of August 1946
Ijieut-Go4#el R.G.Alban, His
Majesty's Consul > Bandar Abbas, arrived from Kerman on the
13th and returned to Kerman on the 17th®
Security.
19cu Sitvan Ahmad Birdous, Officer Commanding
Nigahbani, Jask, arrived from Jask on the 28th with Sarhang
Grulriz, Inspector from the Central Nigahbani, Tehran, to dis-
-cuss matters arising from the recent unrest in Bayaban
following a disagreement between Ali Jalal Wik Khah e.nd Mirza
Anoushirwani.
201 # No robbery of any importance was re-
-ported in Bandar Abbas area during the period under review*
202. The question of an amnesty for Ali
Mohamad Ali Mellitkhah of Fin is still under consideration
by the authorities at Kerman. The Military detachment at
Fin, which was withdrawn in July, has been re-stationed ther
again*
Local News*
203. Reference paragraph 58* The working
of the Khunji Mills continued peacefully and there were no
furtha? strikes. Aqai Yusuf Lutf Ali Khunji, the pr oprL etor,
invited Abdullah Alavi, the manager, and Mr.C.Knowles, the
engineer of the Mills, to Kerman in an effort to remove the
differences between the two.
sd/- R.G.ALBAN
H *M. Con s uL , Banda r Abbas •

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Fortnightly consular diaries (monthly from February 1946) submitted by HM Consul at Bandar Abbas [Bandar-e ʻAbbās], Persia [Iran], covering the period March 1943 to October 1946. No diaries for the period November 1945 to January 1946 are included in the file. The diaries, which are organised under various subheadings, cover the following subjects: movements and activities of British and Persian officials; movements of foreigners; food supply, food prices, and rationing; economic activity, including a fish canning factory An East India Company trading post. at Bandar Abbas; trade and shipping movements; communications, with particular reference to the roads from Bandar Abbas to Kerman and Minab, and the availability of motor vehicles; tribal and political affairs; local elections; security; public health; anti-locust activities; meteorological data, including minimum and maximum temperatures and rainfall; public relations, specifically local opinion on events in the Second World War; affairs at various places in the vicinity of Bandar Abbas, including Lingeh [Bandar-e Lengeh], Chahbar [Chābahār], Jask, and Hormuz [Jazīreh-ye Hormoz]. The file also contains the following reports: ‘Notes on road Bandar Abbas – Kerman’, August 1943 (f 44); appreciations of the conditions in the Bandar Abbas Consulate area for the periods 1 April to 15 August 1944 (ff 100-103), 1 January to 31 May 1945 (ff 164-167), 1 June to 1 December 1945 (ff 182-185), and 1 January to 30 June 1946 (ff 209-210).

At the rear of the file is a copy of the consular diary for Ahwaz [Ahvāz] for January 1947, submitted by HM Consul at Ahwaz and presumably misfiled.

The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.

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1 file (216 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 218; 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. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.

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