Coll 30/5(1) 'Persian Gulf Diaries: Bushire Residency (Persian) Jany. [sic] 1941.' [‎292r] (584/938)

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Diary for the British Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. and Coneulate-General,
Bushire, for the period from 16th to SlBt Ootober,
1942.
I* MovementB .
(a) British officials .
(i) Captain J.B.Howes, MBS##Secretary to the Political
Resident in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , sailed for Kuwait on the
18th October and returned to Bushire on the 27th after
vieiting Basra and Khorramshahr.
(ti) Major R.Holmes, MBS., Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. Surgeon, Bushire,
©ailed for India on short leave on the 19th October.
(ill) Ux t Bertram Thomas, Public Relations Officer, Persian
Gulf, left for Bahrain on the 19th October.
(iv) Sir John Daahwood accompanied by his Secretary, Mr.
Carx, arrived here from Tehran on the 15th October
and left Bushire on the 2let.
(T) Brigadier French, R.E., Chief Engineer, Persia, visited
Bcshire on the 30th October and returned to Shiraz the
following day. Rg was accompanied by Lieut•-Colone1
Berridge, C.R.E., South Persia.
(vi) Mr. T.B.Rogers, ICS., His Majesty's Vice Consul,
Bushire, toured during the fortnight in the Bushire
Governorate in connection with seed wheat distribution,
visiting Ahram, Khormuj, Borazjan, and Ganawah.
(b) Iranian officials .
(i) Captain Hakimi, the new Officer in Charge of the
Garrison Bushire arrived here on the 16 th October
and tool, over from Major Yusuf Noori, who left here
for Kazerun on transfer on the i?th.
(ii) Captain Ghulam Husain Shadrawan, Officer Commanding
the Gendarmerie, Bushire, returned from Daiyir on the
17th October.
(iii) Aq.ai Sayid Abdul Hamid Taqavi, the new Director of
Education, Bushire, arrived here on the 23rd October.
(Jv) Aqai Ghulcm Ui Bakhtari, Director of Posts and
Telegraphs, Bushire, received a telegram from the
Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs to return to Tehran
and was making preparations to do so at the end of
the period under report. It is not known who has
been appointed in his place.
II* Tribal and Political .
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(a) Ali Ismail is reported to be at Gilleh-Zani, 21 miles
north of Daiyir. He has brought b?ck the piece goods
and other property which he removed re '^atar when
hostilities were imminent and is busy selling the piece
goods* Belated reports have also come in of plundering
in Daiyir by the troops after their occupation, the booty
— r --.^ r including a store of Ali Ismail's wheat and other
valuable s.