"تقارير إدارية ١٩٠٥-١٩١٠" [ظ‎‎١‎١‎٨] (٦١٦/٢٤١)

40 ADMINISTKATION BEPOET OF THE PERSIAN GULF POLITICAL RESIDENCY
The Muin's proposals were not very precise, but after due consideration
it was not considered advisable to recommend the Transport Company t
attempt to enter into any form of partnership with him.
66. In autumn a scheme of some magnitude for the opening of a trade
route between Ahwaz, Dizful and Krrmanshah was submitted by jjj 8
Majesty's Consul at Kermanshah, \\hich will no doubt receive full mention
in the Political Report of that officer.,
Pusht-i-Ktjh.
67. The internal history of the Pusht-i-Kuh during the year appears
to have been marked by no important events. On the other hand its external
affairs have been the subject of a considerable body of popular rumour.
It appears tolerably certain that in the hot weather the Wali had an engage-
. naent on the frontier with some Turkish troops, whom he defeated with some eclat
In January he seems to have taken part in a general scheme for the dis.
ciplining of the tribes of Luristan, sanctioned by the Persian Government.
The Wali joined forces with the Beni Lam of Sheikh Gadhban, and fell
on the Sagwand in the country between Diz and Karkha rivers and routed
them plundering much of their property. The professed intention was, it is
understood, to punish the Sagwand for not obeying the Sardar Mukarram's
summons to come up-country. The Sardar Mukarram was himself to tackle
the Dirakwand, but it is doubtful whether he ever quitted Khurramabad, and
it is certain that nothing was accomplished. With the plundering of this
section of the Sagwand, the scheme apparently died out.
^ Again in February circumstantial accounts were current of the Wali's
having attacked, whether with or without provocation being unknown, some
Arab subjects of the Turks, and of his having put a large number of them
to the sword. Still later he is said to have cut up a Turkish force, the composi
tion of which is not stated.
The latest rumour is that he has fallen out wath Sheikh Gadhban, with
whom he has marriage relations and with whom some sort of working alliance
appears to have existed for some time.
. On various occasions during the year letters have been received from
Kaid Khani, the Wali's Agent, reiterating the Wali's desire to make the
personal acquaintance of the Vice-Consul. Up to the present, however, it
has not been found possible to pay a visit to Pusht-i-Kuh.
British Enterprise and Commercial and Political Activities.
68. Messrs. Lynch Brothers.— Agency at Ahwaz was held from May
to Pebruary by Mr. Redfern in place of Mr. E. A. Wilson, who was on leave
during that period. The Agency at Muhammerah since Mr. Redfern vacated
it m April has been in charge of a British Indian subject.
Between August and November there was great activity on both tlie
trading and shipping sides, owing to the large quantity of wheat available for
Z^ 3 ? 6 ; 1 , exported on their own account about 20,000 bags of wheat, and
the Malamir carried in all about 30,000.
The top price paid by Messrs. Lynch Brothers for wheat was Krans 48
^? ,0Xlma ex . ce P^ 0n one or occasions when trade rivalry
harrestareve^poor. 0 ^ fcem P orari ^ The prospects of the coming
fn TiJiu 01 an ^ ^ e f ars Messrs. Lynch Brothers have been seeking permission
hv fha J, 8 O . ie " ro 2, m f or car g 0 at Shalaili which has been consistently refused
MJth!* Go ™ r nment In 1907 Mr. Redfern approached Sheikh
^ i U l eCt c,r m the result that a tentative lease of a piece of
ground claimed as his by Sheikh Murtaza was drawn up.
of thif lease b^eame'pubUe'. ^ ^ talSell, ^ the faCt 0f ,he amE S eIEent
Consn^a?^!^ 1, at ^3 1 ^ am J neral \ thereon separately addressed His Majesty's
hammerah and SheikhjMurtaza, To the former he announced