مجموعة ٢٩/ ١١٠ "الوكالة القنصلية في بندر لنجة: وتعيين المسؤول عن المحطة اللاسلكية في جاسك" [و‎‎٥] (١٤٣/١٠)

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OOHFIHEMTIAL
Extract from Bushire Residency
letter N 0 . 5 -B dated 28th January,
1944
15 . I then went to see the wireless station which was under
Captain Ahmed*s charge. He had been supplied with
comprehensive orders by Captain Keen, when he was at Bandar
Abbas, instructing him how to proceed, and it was clear from
his remarks that he was suffering from a light excess of zeal*
He complained bitterly of the dishonesty and incapacity of the
local Persian officials and appeared very anxious to set the
administration right, but I advised him to proceed slowly
and stick to the duties outlined for him which were to control
the wireless station and supply us with what information he
could secure. He is, however, a very promising young man,
with quite a respectable knowledge of Persian, and I have every
hope that under Mr* Rogers' direction he will prove entirely
satisfactory.
He controls the wireless station by the simple process
of locking the door of the place and taking the key away with
him and did not consider it was possible to immobilise the
machinery during his absence, but was quite certain that his
method was fully effective. The actual work of transmission
is supervised by him personally. He has, however, made
certain other arrangements to keep himself informed of the
Telegraph Master's actions*
I then visited the lighthouse and inspected its
mechanism and am quite convinced that my original diagnosis
of its irregularity was correct, namely that it had not been
signalling to Axis submarines but that the personnel had been
misappropriating the fuel for the lamp.