ملف ٢٢٩٧/ ١٩١٩ "تقارير شهرية للمقيمية البريطانية في الخليج الفارسي. ١٩١٢-١٩٢٠." [و‎‎٤‎٤‎٣] (١٠٤٤/٨٩٠)

/57. Most of the Kuwait pearling boats returned from the pearl-banks during Miscellaneous,
the first week of August for the approaching Ramadhan (fasting) month. The
catch of pearls is said to have been a fairly good one, some ordinary boatmen each
receiving between Rs. 700 and 1,^00 as his share. The reason given is that Tow^a-
shes had to pay high prices to nakhodas though the market actually in Bombay
was not very brisk. On the other hand, a large number of boats have been unlucky.
Mohammeeah.
1st July to 31st August,
758. Mirza Muhammad Ali Khan, Inspector of Telegraphs for A rabistan,
arrived from Ahwaz on the 4th July and left for Basrah en route for Bushire on the
5th to communicate with Tehran by telegraph with a view to settling the question
of the site of the telegraph office at Behbahan. The people of the Mahallahs in
which the telegraph office is not situated claim that it should be in a neutral
position, i.e., between the tvx> Mahallahs. He returned on the 30th July, the
matter remaining unsettled pending the arrival of the Governor of Behbahan.'
759. Mirza Ibrahim Khan, formerly Rais-i-Adliyeh of Ahwaz, has been ap
pointed by the Shaikh to collect taxes from Khisht, Konar-Takhtah, and other
places, which Nizam-es-Suitaneh has mortgaged to him. He arrived on the
4th August from Ahwaz and left for Bnshire (vide also paragraph 813 below).
760. Nizam-ut-Tujjar arrived from Ahwaz on the 4th August. He has been
deputed by Moin-ut-Tujjar to examine the accounts of Haji Rais with the Moin,
in which there is a difference of about 4,000 tomans.
761. The Shaikh and Haji Rais left for Kuwait on the 22nd August and return
ed on the 30th.
Local Officials.
762. Mirza Abdul Husain Khan, Chief Munshi of Ijlal-es-Sultaneh, arrived
from Shushter on the 22nd August with Mirza Ali Akber Khan conveying a message
for the Shaikh from the Governor of Shusther.
763. Mohammerah.- Muhammad-i-Fayaz and some other Karun Shaikhs Local Government*
arrived at Mohammerah at the end of July to receive their annual allowances from
the Shaikh.
764. Shushter—- The people of Shushter are dissatisfied with Ijlal-es-Sultaneh,
the Governor. With the limited forces at his disposal he is unable to main
tain order. At the beginning of July the bazaars were closed for four days but the
question was settled temporarily.
The Khawanins wished to have him dismissed but were kept quiet by pay
ments of money. ^
765. The Governor has prohibited the export of grain from Shushter and the
villages around. He has been levying a tax of two krans on each pair of oxen
used for ploughing and thus collected about 300 to 400 tomans from the culti
vators. Haji Rais, has, however, requested the Governor to allow Messrs. Lynch
Brothers to export grain from Shushter as usual.
766. The Governor sent Mirza Ali Akber to the Shaikh to request him to
send Abdul Saiyid, formerly Governor of Shushter, to assist him. The Shaikh
replied he could not do so without orders from Tehran, since he had agreed that
neither he nor the Bakhtiaris were to take part in the government of Shushter.
Mirza Ali Akber also asked for a letter from the Shaikh to the heads of tribes
telling them to pay the taxes to the Goverhor of Shushter.
767. The Khawanins of Shushter wished to recover the 5,000 tomans taken
from them by the Bakhtiaris by short payment of the taxes being demanded by
the Governor. The Deputy-Governor told them that the deduction could be made
at the end of the year. The question has not yet been settled. The Governor also
refused to recognise the receipts passed by the Bakhtiaris which are being presented
to the Governor against the taxes.
768. Agha Muhammad Zaman, a Khan of Shushter, arrived here on the 29th
July and returned to Ahwaz on the 7th August.
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