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Prisoners are employed to work on the roads, repairing municipal buildings or
any other work of general use, which will give them labour and exercise.
(e) Jelu Refugees .—Some 40,000 odd refugees have passed through Khaniqin
and Qizil Robat. At each place a special camp was formed, and medical and
supervising staff employed.
Hospital accommodation was also provided.
(f) Civil Post Offices and Telegraph Offices have not yet been opened in the
Division, but will be in the near future.
Facilities are given to local inhabitants to bring letters to the Political Offices
for despatch to Baghdad.
kum® the Armistice, mails from Persia have also been received at the Political
Office, Khaniqin, for onward despatch to Baghdad.
(g) One of the problems in this Division is the regular winter influx of beggars
and destitute people from Persia and Kurdistan. Most of the villages have them
and Khaniqin is full of them.
Those from Persia are sent back to Qasr-i-Shirin, and A.P.O., Qasr-i-Shirin is
taking steps to try and prevent their entry into Occupied Territory.
Their entry into Khaniqin is most undesirable in the interests of sanitation
and cleanliness.
a , W Pilgrims. Pilgrim traffic from Persia to Karbala started after the
Armistice. At the end of December there were about 300 coming through daily
ss parfcies with ~ Consu i
and ^luS?VKal h q 1 ^' Khaniqin reaChed QizU R ° bat “ Deeember
hv Jn"’ 1 " lst ' la,I "! ar y J! !J 9 ’ local inhabitants are being allowed to travel to Baghdad
14 e nZb P e?^ en - ° f * ^ Political dffice - T * « anticipated that a
shah an all. (1S f ° r the protection of the Hailway Stations are being provided by the
of grained foods^ffrT hrOU f h ° Ut the ^ uati \ the lmt December, prices
have been exceedingly high in Khaniqin, owing to shortage
to seU thr S nrnb? ef rt f trans P ort rates - , Arrangements were made in December
nml - tilo 1 " f ^.Revenue gram to the civil population, as merchants were
rs'f "“sw n s,„ A “*> —m. -i •»
o( frCr. T1, r ,m 5” 1 riitf-l owing to absence
3 =S £ - Z&
DiviSn PBitSOMHBL—(a) MUM Offloei, in clacge of tbe
CW° r p ' w B 0a n e ’ , 6tb December 1017 to 4 th March 1918 .
MMor H A ' 7th A P ril 1918 to I7til April 1918.
Cant T 0 W F Sn J o^u 0 !’ , 17th A P l i] 1918 to 24 th July 1918 .
Major Mm!’ JuIy 1918 to 14th October 1918 .
Major M. Miles, 14th October 1918 to date.
{b) Assistant Political Officers
Khaniqin :
i'fPri 'l'. C - Oeard, 5 th December 1917 to 8 th July 1918
to 110 ' «*.
Mandali :
SK l^SlSS&lSS. *° 1918 -