File 1749/1921 ‘Persian Gulf:- Residency news summaries 1921-25’ [‎93r] (200/494)

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Ali Asghar Khan, the head of the Bushire Brigade of Cossacks, has left for
Lingah with a considerable party of Cossacks on board the “ Muzaffar.”
Postcil Department. The central authorities have wired to the Director of
Posts in the South to appoint Persians at Jask, Charbar and Henjam to replace the
officials of the Indo-European Telegraph Department who have hitherto been
doing the postal work in those stations.
The Hinterland. Dashti and Dashtistan are in a very disturbed state
Shaikh Muhammed Chakutai is at the bottom of most of the mischief and is doing
his best to stir up trouble for Haidar Khan and Ahmed Khan Angali. *
Russians—The Bolshevik Consul is making strenuous efforts to form a Com
munist party in Bushire but his efforts have not met with much success chiefly
because he is cramped by lack of funds. For the same reason the publication of the
paper reported last month, has been postponed.
Kerman.
The news of the exodus of Ulema from Iraq created some excitement in the
town but the Ittahadieh-i-Tujjar who were asked to take action and received tele
grams from other towns, passed a resolution that the matter was no concern of
theirs. The Governor-General also behaved well in the matter and discouraged
all excitement.
Doctor (Captain) Menuchir Dady—a Parsi from Bombay who served with the
Army in Mesopotamia and Persia—has taken charge of the local Zardashtian
hospital.
Bandar Abbas.
In reply to a telegram from the Mullas at Tehran regarding the exodus of
Ulema from Iraq, the Governor, Mulla Saved Mohammed and the merchants of
Bandar Abbas have expressed their sympathy and have asked for instructions as
to what action they should take.
Minab is very unsettled and robbery and murder are repotted to be rife. The
Deputy Governor is said to be heedless of complaints.
Mekran.
An unconfirmed report has been received that a force of seven hundred men
under Bahram Rind and Taj Mohammed left Bampur on the 26th July in the
direction of Suntsar and Gwadar.
Another unconfirmed report has been received from Rajab that Dost Mohammed
arrived at Mishotan about the 23rd of August and captured a fort belonging
to Mirs Yahya Khan and Ayub Khan of Bent, killing four persons and capturing
one.
ARABIA.
Muscat.
Please see last month’s summary. Shaikh Isa bin Saleh with two thousand
men from Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Maawal attacked the Bani Harras and succeeded in relieving the
Nakhal fort. The Imam is reported to have ordered the date trees of the Bani
Harras to be cut down. About thirty men are reported to have been killed on
either side in this struggle. A fine of dollars 5,000 was imposed on the Bani Harras
by the Imam but remitted at the intervention of Shaikhs Isa bin Saleh and
Sulaiman bin Hamiyar, and the Nakhal affair has thus been settled.
Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. . }
> No news of importance.
Bahrain. ) Kuwait.
Abadan having been declared cholera infected, quarantine was instituted
against all arrivals from Basrah, Mohammerah, Abadan and elsewhere on the Shatt-
al-Arab with effect from the 7th August 1923.
S. G. KNOX, Lieut.-Colonel,
Bushire ; 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. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
9th September 1923.
MC535FD -27-9-23—17—GMPS