'File [XI A/14] British Consulate Muscat' [‎69r] (137/426)

7. The Hon’ble Lieutenant Colonel T.C.Fowle, C.B. >•, yi •
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 lersian Gulf, acconponied by his
Under Secretary Mr.J#Croning arrived here on tour in
H. B .S. H Fowey H on the 20th .April 1937. The Sultan*e shore
battery fired a salute of 17 guns on his landing. Calls
between His Highness the Sultan and the Hon'ble the Political
Resident in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. accompanied by Major R.!.Watte,
I. A*, Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. & H.B.M^ Consul,Muscat, were exchanged
the same day*
FOREIGN INTRRBSTS*
8. Count and Countess de Prorok, the former on American
subject and the latter on Englishwoman by birth and the
holder of a British Passport together with on Italian named
Tuolli Pastori arrived in Muscat from Aden via Bombay in
S.S."Bonkuro w on April 14th.
motor
Immediately after landing and unloading ^ the twq/cors
they hod with them the party proceeded to the /mericon
Mission at Matroh where they were accommodated.
Postori, whose passport held a vise for Muscat in transit
to Iron issued at Aden and in which he is described os a
geologist, announced that the object of hie visit to this
country was to recruit labourers for Eritrea. This information
was reported to the Sultan and by his orders Postori was not
allowed to proceed with his project or leave for the interior
of the country. He came to this Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. and asked for a vise
for Posni whence he stated he would travel overland by cor
into Iron. The following day he said he hod changed his mind a&
and would go direct to Bondar Abbas by sea. He left for that
port by S^.^Borodo" on 21st April. He left his cor with a
merchant in Matroh and announced his intention of picking it
up on his return from the Gulf*
The British Consul at Bandar Abbas reports that
lastori disembarked there on 25th April and that his passport
bore a vise for Iron issued by the Iranian Consul at Karachi*