File 1749/1921 ‘Persian Gulf:- Residency news summaries 1921-25’ [‎47r] (108/494)

CONFIDENTIAL.
Summary o! news received in the Political 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. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the month
of September 1924.
PERSIA.
Movements.
British Officers.
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. left for Ahwaz
on the 12th, in H. M. S. “ Crocus ”,
and returned to Bushire on the 19th,
after paying a Hying visit to Bahrain.
Major M. A. Nicholson, I.M.S.,
arrived at Bushire on the 17th and
assumed charge of the duties of Resi
dency Surgeon and Chief Quarantine
Medical Officer from Captain J. J.
Rooney, I.M.S..
Persian Officials.
Salar-i-Ihtesham, ex-Deputy Gover
nor of Jask, has been appointed Deputy
Governor of Minab by the Governor of
the Gulf Ports, under whose jurisdiction
Minab has been placed.
Yawar Ali Asghar Khan, who had
proceeded on leave on the 5th June,
returned on the 16th September and
resumed command of the Bushire garri
son.
Non-Officials.
Mr. G. G. Fuller, American Vice-
Consul at Bushire, left for Tehran via
Shiraz on the 7th, leaving his house and
the archives of the Vice-Consulate under
seal in charge of His Majesty’s Consul-
General. He is to take the place of the
late Major Imbrie temporarily, and ex
pects to return to Bushire in December.
Frau von Mathusius and Fraulein
Alice Kirsch left Bushire for Shiraz en
route for Tehran on the 7th. Their car
was driven by Herr Mathes, the German
who supervises the assembling of motor
vehicles imported by the Persian Govern
ment.
Health, South Persia Ports.
No cases of infectious disease occurred
during the month. *
Military.
120 men of the Bushire garrison were
sent in two parties to Borazjan on the
2nd and 3rd, and returned to Bushire
on the 19th. On the 24th, they were
(sent in the Customs boat “ Muzaffari
to Dilum. The soldiers went very
reluctantly as their pay is four months
in arrears. The party has not yet
advanced from the Coast.
While en route for Borazjan they
arrested Shaikh Muhammed, son of the
late Shaikh Husain of Chakutah, who,
,however, is to be released by order of the
Prime Minister as he will be useful
against the Shaikh of Mohammerah.
They also arrested Ahmed Khan
Angali, apparently to prevent the possi
bility of his assisting the Shaikh of
Mohammerah, and for the same reason,
appear to contemplate the arrest of
Ahmad Khan’s father-in-law, Haidar
/Khan, C.I.E., of Hayat Daud.
Two detachments, each 100 strong,
left Kazerun and Shiraz for Behbehan
on the 2nd and 3rd respectively.
A mixed force, about 600 strong, from
the North, arrived at Shiraz on the
J 1th.
The Rais-i-Qushuny Bushire, has ad
vertised for auction the present quarters
of the military. It is rumoured that the
garrison will be quartered in Malikabad,
the former headquarters of the Bushire
Force of Occupation, which is adjacent
to the grounds of the Indo-European
Telegraph Department Colony at
Resir re.
American Interests.
Flags at all British Consulates in
South Persia were flown at half mast on
the 29th September, the day of the burial
at Washington of the remains of the late
Major Imbrie.
Aerial.
Lieutenant H. A Halverson. Air
Service, United States Army, arrived at
Bushire from Basra on the 1st, to
arrange for the disposal of the surplus
petrol stocked for the use of the Ameri-
(an World Fliers. He left the next day
for Europe via Karachi.
ENCLOSURE IN
INDIA FOREIGN SECRETARY’S
Letter No. 9 1 f/|.
Dated 13 NOV 1924
Receiw! 1 0^1924