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P^ishire 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. Diary No. 16 (Persian) for the month of Septem
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182. Movements, British officials. —Mr.
G. A. Richardson, O.B.E., H. M.’s Consul at
Bandar Abbas, on recess at Karachi,
returned to headquarters temporarily on
the 15th August. He left for Lingah on the
20th, returned to Bandar Abbas on the
30th and sailed the same day for Karachi.
Captain C. C. L. Ryan, I.A., H. M.’s
Vice-Consul at Ahwaz, left for Lebanon on
the 19th August on short leave. He
resumed duty on the forenoon of the 22nd
September.
Flight-Lieutenant Moore, R.A.F., arrived
at Bandar Abbas on the 20th and left for
Charbar the same evening after inspecting
the aerodrome.
Captain G. L. Mallam, LA., Political
Agent, Bahrain, visited Bushire from the
21st to the 23rd.
Reference paragraph 165. Captain
Eccles left Bushire for Muscat on the 23rd.
Non-officials. —Sir A. T. Wilson, K.C.I.E.,
General Manager of the Anglo-Persian Oil
Company, Ltd., Muhammerah, visited
Bushire from the 6th to the 8th to confer
with the 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. , chiefly regarding
the Muscat Oil Concession.
Foreign Representative. —Reference para
graph 165. Mr. Fuller left on the 20th for
the United States via Shanghai. Mr. A. M.
Tracey Woodward (paragraph 167) also
left for Shanghai. He is technically a
prisoner until he has arranged for the execu
tion of a bond for 10,000 dollars for his future
good behaviour.
Foreigners. —Under instructions from H.
M.’s Minister, Tehran, Henry or Enrico
Furst, who claims American citizenship
and figures on the Home Office Suspect
Index, has been granted a transit visa for
India. He had travelled down from
Tehran to Bushire by motor car.
One Dr. Kurt Korting (“ C. E. Gcrth-
ing ” on Iraq Certificate of Identity)
holding a German passport, was recently
deported from Shiraz to Bushire for prac
tising medicine after being forbidden to do
so by the Director of Education at Shiraz.
In Bushire he has attempted to obtain a
passage to Gwadur, possibly with a view to
walking thence to India. He has been
refused a visa for India, Muscat and Arabia,
and British authorities in other Gulf Ports
have been warned not to grant him a visa
without previous reference to Bushire.
Roman Mullner, Austrian, and Otto
Muller, German, globe-trotters, arrived at
Muhammerah on the 28th, from Basra.
183. Health, Persian ports. —The health
of the Persian ports is good.
184. Aerial. —Five aeroplanes from
Shaibah arrived at Bushire on the morning
of the 11th September bringing Air Vice
Marshall Sir W. Sefton Brancker, K.C.B.,
Director of Civil Aviation, Colonel P. R.
Burchall and Lieutenant-Colonel F. F.
Minchin, representing Imperial Airways,
Ltd., and some officers and mechanics of
the Royal Air Force, Iraq.
Two of the machines, including Sir
Sefton Brancker s, left on the return flight
to Shaibah on the morning of the 12th.
The one carrying Sir Sefton arrived at Shai
bah shortly after midday ; the second made a
forced landing in swampy ground 30 miles
south of Fallahiyeh. The crew of the machine
were rescued after four days, the machine
being left for salvage later.
The remaining three machines left Bushire
for Bandar Abbas on the morning of the
13th, carrying Colonels Burchall and
Minchin, who were to transfer at Bandar
Abbas into machines from India, three of
which arrived at Bandar Abbas on the
13th.
Two Austrian globe-trotters, Josef
Riesinger and F. Plesche, who claimed to
have walked from Muhammerah, passed
through Bushire at the end of the month on
their way to Shiraz. They propose to
reach India via Kerman and Baluchistan,
but do not appear to realise that they
will not find it easy to obtain a visa for India,
particularly as they are indigent and practi
cally beg their way.^
On the flight from Bushire to Bandar
Abbas one machine made a forced landing
on the island of Kishm near Basidu. The
tv-o remaining machines reached Bandar
Abbas early on the morning of the 14th.
1 Colonels Burchall and Minchin left for
India in the Indian machines on the 15th
and the two machines from Iraq left for
Basidu to effect the repair of the machine
ENCLOSURE IN
INDIA FOREIGN SECRETARY'S
Letter No. 37 |yj
Oated 5 MOV 1925