Coll 30/5(1) 'Persian Gulf Diaries: Bushire Residency (Persian) Jany. [sic] 1941.' [‎41r] (82/938)

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BUSHIRE CPU Sti LATE - GE MERAL Diary Mo. 10 FOR ..-.E PERIOD
MOVEMENTS.
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(a) British Offici als.
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207. Mr. T.E,Rogers, tijll recently H.M’s Consul, Bushiro ,
p roceeded on short leave tojlndid f viA) Zahi s dan on 16th May.
^38. Captain J.C.E. Bowen, H.M’s Consul, Bushire, accompanied
b y the Firmandar, Bushire, proceeded to Burazjan on May 21st and
returned the same day.
209. Mr. H.R.D.GybbonTMon^ypenny, O.B.E , Oriental Counsellor,
and Mr. J.S.Somers Cocks, First Secretary, H.M's Embassy,Tehran,
visited Bushire from 24th May to 27th May. They called on the
Firmandar on the 26th May.
(fr) Other Travellers .
210. The Reverend D. Dykstra of the Arabian Mission, accompany
ed by Mrs. Dykstra, arrived from Muscat on the 29th and proceeded
to Shiraz on 31st May.
(c) allied officials . Nil.
(d) Persian Official s.
211. Shaikh Jabbareh Nasuri, Bakhshdar of Tahiri, on his
return from Shiraz, called on H.H’s Consul on 19th May. He had
gone to Shiraz to try and persuade the Ustandar to settle the
long-outstanding murder case in which his brother, Shaikh ixbdur
Rasul Nasuri of Asalu is involved. In thi*s he appears to have
been successful, for orders have been issued to Sargurd Arasteh,
Officer Commanding at Bushire, to accompany Jabbareh Nasuri to
Kangan, where he is to take security for future good behaviour
from Abdur Rasul Nasuri.
212. Aqai Abbas Dawachi, Director-General of the Anti-Locust
Department, Tehran, visited Bushire on May 24th and left on 26th
May, (paragr a ph 218 below refers).
213. Aqai Sami'i, Director of the Agricultural Department}
Shiraz, visited the Shabankareh Irrigation Scheme during the
fortnight. He states that the control of this Scheme has been
transferred from the Headquarters of the Agricultural Department
in Tehran to the Shiraz Agricultural Department.
BURAZJAN.
214. To enable the people of Burazjan to realise that British
good will is responsible for the free supply of cloth to the poor
tn these parts, and also tfc& ensure that the cloth really was
distributed to those who needed it most, H.M’s Consul took with
him to Burazjan the 500 yards of cloth allotted to that town and
had it distributed in his presence. 50 bakkets of dates belonging
to the A.P.R.R.F. were also distributed on the 21st May to the
poor of Burqzjan. There were at"least 500 poor in this town of
about 8000 inhabitants to whom free cloth could well have been
distributed, all of whom were in rajgs and some nearly naked. It
w as noticeable that several two-year-old infants, who had had
the misfortune to enter the world during the present time of
scarcity were being carried abhut Stark naked.
IB JUL1945