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Bushire Intelligenca Summary No.19 for the period from 16th to
31st October, 1943.
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I. MOVEMENTS.
( a ) British Offic ials. | - j qaa
(i) Air Vice Marshall R.P. Willock,' Air Officer Commanding, Iraq,
and Major General Baillon, Chief of the General Staff P.A.I.C,,
and staff arrived on October 28th from Bahrain by air, and lefton
the following day.
(ii) Mr. GoN.Jackson, Under Secretary to the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. ,
returned from Shiraz on the 31st October 1943.
(iii) Captain J.B 0 Howes, M.B.E., H.M.Consul, Bushire, visited
Dayyir by launch during the period under report.
(b) Allied Offi c ials .
Professor Winsor, of the Irrigation Department, arrived
on •ctob&r 28th and left on October 31st (see below).
(c) Persian Officials.
Nil.
II. LOCAL AFF AIRS t
(a) Reference paragraph 1(b).
Professor Y/insor 1 s visit was for the dual purpose
of initiating the drinking water scheme for Bushire, and starting
a very desirable overhaul of the Shabankareh irrigation project.
A committee meeting was held at the Governorate, when staff were
appointed for the commendement of the drinking water scheme, and
the general plan of operations decided upon.
(b) Five hundred mangrove seedlings, presented by the
Government of Zanzibar, arrived and were delivered to the
Governor for experimental sowing in Bushire.
III. COMMUNICA TIONS.
The Bushire-Tehran landline (which is Tehran’s only^’FIL”^
link with London and Delhi) is still under a heavy strain, owing
to the Persian Government’s failure to provide adequate staff and
to maintain the condition of the line.
IV. PUBLIC HEALTH .
(a) The sanatorium at Shekeri for sufferers from tropical
ulcers very nearly had to close down during the period under
report, as the sums promised by local merchants were not in
fact subscribed. The Anglo-Persian Relief Fund came to the
rescue, and has now undertaken responsibility for the food of
the patients, the Health Department providing equipment and
service.
(b) There were no epidemics in Bushire during the fortnight.
V. TRIBA L AND POLITICAL .
The situation has remained superficially quiet during the
period under report, but there have been indications of a ra-
proachement between the Dashti and Tangistan chiefs 5 and during
H.M.Consul’s visit to Dayyir., he found two Qashqai emissaries