File 1749/1921 ‘Persian Gulf:- Residency news summaries 1921-25’ [‎157r] (328/494)

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'pY^ollencv the GoveTnoT reports th^.t since the beginning of 1h,
tll8 vX! of Sg"ed goods seized by Ac « PersepoUs ” and Customs launches
amounts to Ts. 10,000.
p_ 7 „ Kpo n the Minister of War, has telegraphed to the Head of the Finance
Toi t ins+ruotine him to hand over to the military all the money collected on
account of indirect taxes at Bushire, Bandar Abbas, Lingahand the other por s m
the Gulf. r i t\t u ’
TPp qhahankareh affair is still unsettled and it is feared that Asaf-ul-Alu c s
fallur?toS n a -ttlement is reac mg adversely on the general sduatron m the
hinterland. .
It renorted from Tangistan that Zalr KMdhar has occupied Tahiak one of the
Governor’s Assistant, to give up the village.
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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. proceeded on tour in R. I. M. S. Lawrence on . i u
1 ^ Two hundred and seventy-five cases of opium were sliipped during'the month
hv the Chinese vessel “ Songlee ’ nominally for Hong Ho. 0 -
B/r.™ The Kashkuli Khans have been urging the necessity for increasing
to their summer quarters the possibil t\ ot ra d should be brought
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1 of opinion that the guards will have to be increased, ^ ^
T r 7 7 7 * A n 4.-UP oo r( q ,y Dr il a report was received from Kazerun that boulet
has i vU cs*. from the town with 250 sowars, which were later increase
was encamped half a mile ti om t rumoured he intended to proceed
to 800 sowars and 400 tufangchis ^.^omt rXand robberies. Considerable
to Kashkuli country to punish them for rec.nt raids and^ ^ ^ ^ ^
anxiety was therefore felt regdj, ^ Bikarz area> and. a message
operations of the ^jiglo-l eisiar Jin t -u t aj r ^ Wilsons arrival had
was sent urgently by 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. ^ h ti it was hoped that he would
been unavoidably postponed ^ d p Companys interests. A reply was received
take no action detrimental to tfi- 0 R . ^ T Wilson, but could not
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wait any longer for him m „ f ? infprpsts He however went onto
quarters, but would not damage " t'l.p 1 'p -rsian Government to punish the Rash
ly that he had received orders from had bcently carried out and for
kulis for certain raids and robbenes which they tad denied b the
° Soulet left Kazerun in the f J^nd* t«S
ceeded as far as Chmar Shahijan, , e ® and x) as btar']in, and the danger to the
off towards his summer quarters via i i change were probably that the
Oilfields was averted. The reasons for thie sudden change ^ ^ ^
majority of the Kashkuhs moved off the rtmour tha\\is brother Ali Khan
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treme nervousness prevailed amo "? st onvi would attack them, and that the
approach of Soulet, who, they \vere con ^ , d f n the direction of
greater portion of the “ tribal householders have Khan . The
Basht, and joined the section h been badly upset by Soulet’s threat-
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