Coll 30/5(1) 'Persian Gulf Diaries: Bushire Residency (Persian) Jany. [sic] 1941.' [‎326r] (652/938)

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. & Consulate*General*
Buehire, for the period from 16th to 30th June
1942.
I. Movements ♦
132. British officials .
The Hon*ble Lt .Col.W.R.Hay, CISPolitical Resident in the
Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and H*M. # s Consul-Geneial, Bushire, left Bushire
on the 18th June for Shiraz and Kerman, returning on the 30th
June.
Persian officials .
Sargurd Yusuf Nuri, Officer Commanding Bushire garrison,
left for Fehlian on the 24th June.
II. Communications ♦
133. On the 15th June a lorry carrying rice for the Economics
Department, Bushire, was attacked at Miankotal on the Bushire-
Shiraz road and its load of 40 bags removed. The driver was
wounded in the foot. Some of the robbers were later recaptured
and the sugar recovered.
Two caravans on the Bushire-Jthram road were attacked and
a large quantity of carpets and fruit carried off.
HI. Tribal and Political .
134. Interest centres in the attempts of the Govemment forces
to complete the submission of the Dashti chiefs. The opera
tions resemble not a little the desultory warfare of the
Chinese warlords. Chiefs change sides, siding even with the
Govemment troops, and are cheerfully prepared to desert to
any of a number of sides for temporary advantage. If a good
victim presents himself from among a group even his temporary
allies will turn and rend him for his store of wheat, his
incautiously ostentatious household effects, or a hoard of
smuggled crepe de chine.
In the action at the beginning of the fortnight against the
unfortunate Hxaidar Maidar whom jbobody seems to like, some nine
chiefs headed by Rais Ghulam Razmi supported the Government
troops and shared the booty. Eleven chiefs including the
luckless Haidar then submitted and undertook to give up
the rifles which they had removed from the Road Guards last
October. But these surrenders and undertakings are glibly
promised and readily forgotten. Events and the return of
Isfandiari, the road guard chief in charge of the operations,
may be awaited before a truer appreciation of the situation
can be made.
According to reports Ali Ismail, clinging to hi s pirate
port of Daiyir astride a smuggling route, is the only major
rebel udio has not surrendered. Though well armed the combina
tion against him is strong and columns of Government troops
are in a position to converge on him from north and south.
Tortune has temporarily favoured him in the guise of a
valuable mixed cargo belonging to Bushire merchants which
Al^s pirates seized as the dhow A term adopted by British officials to refer to local sailing vessels in the western Indian Ocean. which brought it was rashly
lingering off Daiyir. The merchants are hot to regain their
captured cargo and are bringing pressure to bear in high
quarters in Bushire to have the voracious Isfandiari called
off as interested less in the hardened rebel meekly making
submission than in the successful smuggler reluctantly
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