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Local officials.
Condition of
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Condition of roads,
Telegraph and
Postal Service.
Customs,
Movements of His
Majesty’s Repre
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Miscellaneous.
Condition of
country.
Bandar Abbas.
1st to 31st January.
[Furnished by Captain H. V. Biscoe.]
54. The Midhat-es-Sultaneh. arrived from Bushire as Karguzar on the 23rd.
He called on His Majesty’s Consul on the 27th. The Hissam-es-Sadat will be
leaving for Bushire shortly.
55. A fight recently occurred at Gulashwar in the Minab district between
some Bashakirdis who had come in to raid some of the outlying villages, and some
of the Deputy-Governor’s tofangchis. Six of the Bashakirdis were killed and
one Tangsiri, and raiders left the neighbourhood.
56. Girashi and other tribesmen are reported to be plundering the neigh
bourhood of Bar. No goods are being despatched to Bar at present and the Bar
post which left Bandar Abbas in the beginning of January was looted on the way.
57. The Bandar Abbas-Kerman road has been secure throughout the month.
Numerous caravans have arrived and left for the interior and large quantities of
goods have been despatched.
58. The Hormuz oxide mines, which have hitherto been worked by the Customs,
were handed over to the agents of the Moin-ut-Tujjar on the 15th January. The
instructions received from Tehran were to the effect that the mines had been leased
to the Moin, but would continue to be controlled by the Customs. No explicit
orders have’ yet been received regarding the nature and extent of this control
however, and'the matter is still under reference to Tehran.
59. His Majesty’s Consul proceeded to Minab on the 17th January returning
on the 21st.
60. Major Hopkins, R.E., Mr. Varvill and Mr. Green, Engineers, on duty in
connection with the Karachi extension Railway, arrived at Bandar Abbas from
Bampur on the 29th December 1912. Major Hopkins and Mr. Varvill intended
proceeding to Yezd. but were not permitted to do so on account of the disturbed
state of the country’. They ultimately left on the 29th January for Charbar via
Jask.
Kermanshah.
29th November 1912 to 2nd January 1913.
[Kindly furnished by Mr. Consul McDouall].
61. {a) The Cossacks left for Tehran on the 6th December with the only
maxim gun. Their presence was probably of no use as soldiers, but the fact of their
having been a force of 150 trained men with a maxim wms a great support to the
authority of the Governor-General, who now only has some 300 sarbazes and about
the same number of levies who are armed with obsolete pattern rifles. _ The tribes
on the other hand have some three to four thousand repeating rifles, besides
ordinary ones.
(b) The Turkish Consulate escort left for Baghdad on 2nd December, and that
Consulate has now no escort.
(c) During the third week of December, the Pairawmnd raided a village four
miles distant from town and killed a man.
(d) Husain Kuli Khan, the rebel Mujahid, who has taken service wdth the
Earman Farma, invited and acted as mediator on behalf of various rebels with the
result that all the rebels wdth the exception of the Salar Muzaffar returned. The
Salar Muzaffar is in bast in the Turkish Consulate. When the Muavin-ur-Raya,
wdio is expected, arrives, all the adherents of the Salar-ed-Dovdeh wdll then be in
tovm; most of these are the robbers and ruffians who took part in looting the
interior of the town in February last.
(e) Mr. Vice-Consul Soane has written from Kasr-i-Shirin during the last week
of December, that a dispute about winter pasturage has occurred betwmen the
Sinjabi and Kalhur tribes. This dispute is likely to give trouble as neither party
gives way, and it is further reported in Kermanshah that fighting between these
two tribes has taken place. Ali Akber Khan Sinjabi left his summer quarters with
about 1,000 horse on the 19th for Kasr-i-Shirin.