File 1749/1921 ‘Persian Gulf:- Residency news summaries 1921-25’ [‎59v] (133/494)

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to be hurried, but the reason is not known,
Yawar Ali Asghar Khan, the Officer Com
manding at Bushire, is said to have obtained
three months' leave from Tehran. A Major
Ghulam Hussain Khan has relieved him.
The case of the two geologists of the
Anglo-Persian Oil Company, rac T! :lf 1v I J e ^
last month, has been referred to H. M. s
Consul-General, Isfahan, for disposal.
That officer is also dealing with two com
plaints lodged by the Indo-European Tele
graph Department against the same culprit
officers, for assaulting caretakers of rest-
houses and damaging furniture.
A number of complaints against the high
handedness of Persian^ soldiers were
brought to the notice of Yawar Ali Asghar
Khan, Rais-i-Qushun, Bushire. The most
serious cases were commandeering of two
lighters already loaded with stores, the
property of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company,
and commandeering of an Indian military
transport cart.
A cossack on Customs duty at Ganawa
has been harassing European employees
of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company at that
port.
A fracas occurred in Bushire between
two cossacks on Customs duty and the
nakhuda of the 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. motor launch,
who was supported by a number of rela
tives. As the nakhuda was clearly guilty
of resisting lawful authority he was puni
shed with three days’ confinement in the
Amirieh (Government House) of Bushire.
The military commander at Lingah,
Naib Munir-i-Huzur has got into trouble
with the Karguzar and priests of Bushire
for his harsh method of settling a faction
fight at Lingah (See under Lingah).
After visiting the British military build
ings at Naibund, the Rais-i-Qushun of
Bandar Abbas made a tender of Krans 30,210
for the wood and iron work and other re-
moveable portions of the Hospital, bun
galows and Lines. It is said that 300
Persian troops will be stationed there after
evacuation by the British.
The Persian troops at Bandar Abbas
have not been paid for two months. They
are looting fruit stalls and entering private
houses, and the leading mullah has com
plained to the Governor of their behaviour.
German Activities.
Herr Wassmuss gave out at Bushire
that he was no longer interested in poli
tics. He twice visited the Khans at Ahram
(in the interior) ostensibly to arrange a
settlement regarding debts contracted in
the name of the German Government durino
the War. The Khans are reported to have
replied that they do not desire repayment!
He is reported to have unsuccessfully ap.
proached the Rais-i-Qushun and
Abdul Rahman, son of Mirza Ali Kazeruni,
for employment. On the 5th May he offer
ed for sale at the Bank fifty new £ 1 bank
notes, endorsed “ a/c Gosbank, Moscow]
through the Russian Trade Delegation,'
London.” He left for Tehran by motor on
the 8th May.
Herr Willnow (Agent for the Hansa Line)
has been calling on the Ulema of Bushire
and soliciting their support for his steamers
He has dismissed Haji Yusuf Dubash, and
engaged Zair Husain Dashti, formerly in the
employ of Messrs. Wonckhaus & Co., as
Dubash.
Herr W. Roever, accompanied by a
German Assistant, Herr A. Kunze, reached
Shiraz from Bushire on the 8th May. He
at once opened business premises for trade
in piece-goods, motor accessories, etc.
They called on H. M.’s Consul, and also
assured a meeting of Persian merchants that
they were now on good terms with the
British. On the 18th May they left for
Bushire via Firuzabad en route for Ger
many. Herr Roever informed Mr. Calvert
that he had returned to Persia expecting to
find the trade conditions similar to those
of pre-war days, but after seeing the pre
sent hopeless state of trade, he was returning
to Germany to consult his “principals’
who, he declared, had no business relations
with Messrs. Wonckhaus and their activi
ties by way of the Volga.
Ahwaz.
Local officials. —Muayyid-ud-Dulah, late
Governor-General of Khuzistan, left for
Baghdad en route for Tehran. r l he incom
ing Governor-General, Saqut-ul-Mulk, has
appointed the Pishkar-i-Malieh to officiate
until his arrival; the latter in his turn has
appointed Ekra-ul-Mulk, formerly Kargu-
zar at Ahwaz, as his Agent in Shushtar.
There is no information as to when the new
Governor-General will arrive.
Bakhtiari. —The Janeki Khans approach
ed the Shaikh of Mohammerah with a view
to their restoration to the Bakhtiari fo
through his mediation ; the Shaikh wou
gladly have accepted the office of mediator
but was advised to await the result of Amir
Jang’s negotiations at Tehran. Sonic
time after, Sirdar Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division. Mohtashim received a te e
gram from Amir Jang to the effect that t e
question had been satisfactorily settled an
that the Janeki will be returned to