"تقارير إدارية ١٩٢٠-١٩٢٤" [و‎‎٥‎٧] (٤١٢/١١٨)

PERSIAN GULF POLITICAL RESIDENCY, 1921.
The Company's surveyors having decided that the best route to approach
Dasht-i-Qil from the coast was from Genaweh near Bundar Eig, they set to
woik to collect material and stores at Bushire and Grenaweh required for the
construction of the road to the site of the first test boring so that they would be
ready to start work as soon as agreements had been concluded with (1) Haidar
Khan, C. I., E. or Hayat Daoud for the formation of the base at Genaweh and
the construction of that portion of the road which lay in his territory and
(2) the Kashkuli Khans in whose winter grazing grounds the prospective oil
field is situated.
Satisfactory agreements were concluded by Sir A. T. Wilson on behalf of
the Anglo-Persian Oil Company with the above parties on the 6th and 12th
October respectively. The Kashkuli Khans however laid great stress on the
fact that the Company should come to some agreement with Soulet-^d-Douleb,
the de facto Ilkhani of the Kashgais, as they stated they were quite unable to
defend the Company's interests from any hostile action on his part.
By the end of the year the construction of the road was in full swing,
some 1,000 Persian coolies being employed on the work, and a light portable
drilling set had been landed at Genaweh and was being sent up in pieces to
Dasht-i-Qil by manual labour.
On hearing of the abovementioned agreements the Persian Government
protested most strongly against their conclusion, and asserted that the
Company had no right under their concession to make agreements of such a
nature and that they should have applied to Government for permission to
explore this area and for any guards which they might require to protect their
employees, etc. They also alleged that the Kashkuiis and Haidar Khan had no
right to the territories in question and finally declared the agreements null
and void. The Persian Government however adopted the same attitude in
regard to the Company's agreement with the Bakhtiari Khans. At the end of
the year it remained to be seen whether they intended to maintain their
attitude, or let the matter drop as on former occasions. The Company main-
tains that as the Persian Government had hitherto never taken any steps to
fulhl their obligation to protect the Company's employees and property, it was
necessary to make agreements to protect themselves.
Civil traffic on the Bushire-Borasjun railway ceased on the 16th March
Eailway.
and the dismantling of the railway was
0 i. * i i Pi. x* t j * completed by June when the last shipload
of material left for India. . ^
No aeroplanes visited Bushire during the year under report. A wireless
Aviation. se ^ a ^otor lorry workshop, one Crossley
1 j • j i i . t en ^ er an d a fair amount of stores,
rtc., are retained but no personnel of the Royal Air Foree are now stationed in
Mesopotamia 011 perlodlC vlslts of iM P e ction are paid by officers from
In the month of June orders were received from His Excellency the High
Political Deportees from Iraq at "Hen jam.
Commissioner for Iraq for the release
, i . , , , tt . under the amnesty of the remainder of
Basrah nn ^L S l 68 ?t£ |am ' They Were accordin S 1 y repatriated to
Basrah on the 16th June, and the camp was subsequently dismantled.
The Persian Government have protested against the existence of British
0fflcM in "" GD,f f 08 * 0ffi ce8 in the Persian Gulf and
Madrid Postal C„„.nta ; h.„ W. ta'clSdo™
or handed over to the Persian Postal Department by the 1st January 1922
These Post Offices were established in the Gulf from 1860 onwards as
there was no Persian Post Office, and have carried on a verv efficient urstal
service at considerable loss to tide Indian Government for some 60 years to the
community and of business g^iferaUy. ^t'Med 3 hardly" be' said thTt after tu
l e ; e K&ss t,le disapi,earance ° f these offices wii1 be "