'Adminisistration [Administration] Reports 1931-1935' [‎102v] (204/416)

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Tlio delivery arrangements in the Kerman Post Office are still far from being
satisfactory. . ^ ,
Tlie censorship, by secret detectives, applied to all mails, both inland and
foreign, continues.
u]) Wirdess.—'The Wireless station situated some four miles to ffie.irest
of Kerman, which is maintained by the Post and Telegraph authorities was not
used during the year, and the only operator proceeded on leave to Tehran at.the
end of November.
U) Aviation, —No aeroplanes visited Kerman during the last two years.
The aerodrome prepared by the Military authorities some years ago five
miles due east of Kerman, which is 100 by 85 ynrds, with a shelter on the south
side having been found unsuitable, was never used and has, thereioie, remained
neglected.
The few Junker planes that visited Kerman between 1928 and 1931 used a
piece of land about 400 by 80 yards situated some live miles to the N. W. X. of
Kerman town.
Tt .T>nrnl (Invp.rnmeM and Politics.
8. Condition of the country.—The maintenance of law and order throughout
the province continues.
A man of the Amnieh Regiment and a tribesman from the district of Aqta’
were executed Tor highway robbery, and several others were awarded various,
terms of imprisonment for the same offence dming the ear.
In the early summer, Hussein Khan (Shuja’ Sultan) Chief of the Buchaqchi
tribe, who was an officer in the Amnieh and for some time in charge of tho
Kerman-Bandar Abbas motor road, was suspected of being in collusion with
robbers and imprisoned by the military authorities. The discovery of several
rifles and a quantity of ammunition in this man’s house, some time later, eon-
ffrined the suspicions against him.
The chief improvement effected in the administration pf the province during
recent years would appear to be the decrease of corruption, especially nniong
the higher officials, brought about bv the frequent visits of inspectors from
Tehran and by the fact that complaints made to the Shah are nearly always
taken up and the authorities concerned called upon for explanation.
Apart from individual inspectors, a Commission of Enquiry, composed of
representatives from the various Ministers and Administrations, visited
Kerman during the year.
Reports about large bands of tribesmen from Ears looting villages in jb
district of Sirjan at the end of April caused some alarm to the local authorities,
who were at first afraid that it might be the result of the activities of the military
columns, despatched from Ears and Kerman to disband tribes who were moving
up to their summer quarters. As it transpired later, however, the matter liad
been exaggerated, as only 7 a few sheep and some other unimportant property
had been carried away by 7 a small band of poorly 7 -armed outlaws from the dis
tricts of Shahr-Babek and Pariz, one of whom was captured and brought id 0
Kerman.
Rumours reached Kerman at the close of the year that the fort of Mnzaipn
in Ears, which had defied the Government forces for so many y 7 ears, had at las
been taken by troops from Shiraz and that the leaders had surrendered.
9. Local officials and departments .—His Excellency Mirza Sayyed Musta 8
Khan Kazimi, Governor-General, Kerman, left for Tehran on the 21st An gas,
Governor-General. ostensibly on leave. Within a few days atw
his denartiire, however, the appointment
Mirza Abul Hassan Khan Peernia (Mn’azid-us-Saltoneh) to the post ^
announced. The latter arrived early in September and held the post of bo
ernor-General for the rest of the year.
Kerman, f ro111
August
It will be remembered that Peernia was Governor-General,
1929 to June 1930.
Though an official of the old school, Peernia seems to he truly 7 loyal to 1
new regime and cherishes progressive views. Amone* other things. His Exce*
n-noy is interested in mines and road making. His relations with the Cons* 1 '
have been courteous but formal.