Coll 30/9(2) 'Admin. Reports of the Persian Gulf - 1945 -' [‎147r] (293/1148)

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?o + ! r:ned robber * when returning from Bam to Kermsn on June
if’th. he received eerious injurie* from splintered ,'la** to
ejr Sf* The next “orning, he wee flown to Ahwee for
t.rfcA't/iient• The pundits reu&ined uncs'p’tured#
-i« n June 24th the Kerman->Jupar Road we* the scene of an
araied robbery in which 2 people were shot at and killed#
12 • ' rw0 * an S« bandit# f reported to have cooie from Far#,
made a number of raid# on village# near Sirjan in tuguat.
mcy were puraued by military detachment#, who #ucceeded in
recovering moat of the stolen article#.
Id. In October, after a month of reaaonable security. #
aheep owner named Rezs ./uli Poaht Kuli was attacked by a gang
ox dacoit# while on hi# way to Bardair with a party of tra-
JfirJJ*! « relieved of four Government riflea which he hac
70 t nnr' - + I f r h 4 * P^O v eCt:L S? , and the P***? wa * robbed of about
70,COv tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. in c&ah. The bandits were reported to have
been followers of Murad-kli-Murad and to have been led in this
attack by Jahangir, hi» brother.
14. r. E.T. Khanbabayan, an Armenian carpet .lercixsnt of
n®*®*?* W oii e r,5turnin ^ to Kerman by car from Rofainjan on
ecember 7th, wa# ambu#hed near the Kabooterkhan Hiver bv a
gang of about 25 armed b-.ndit#. The effort# of hi# driver
v° ^ the S«vintlet resulted in a hail of bullets from the
tunaits| one of which hit and #ub#aquently killed Khanbabayan.
the 3 # b.R. lorry was later ftopped at the
identical spot. The robbers ranaacked it and made off with
about 40,000 toman 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. # worth of personal effect#.
¥111. COMMTJFIC\ TICWS .
^ 9 \♦ p^e Zahidan-Kermun Road remained under the
u eryision of the d.Sa during the year and continued to be
i* good repair. The road to Yezd, though a good
one in clement we^tner, was inclined to deteriorate in rSin
** rl y in January, there wa# a temporary stoppage
of tr«»xfic when a bridge between Raf*injan and Kerman was
wwsned away, end an old alignment where the going is bad had
to be usee till the Persian Road Department, who were reaponai-
ble for its maintenance, eventually took steps to repair it.
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The fendar Abba# road, though raotorable. was in bad
rep^r, «ome parts bein hardly better than a cart-track. A
lanoslide near Sirjan, caused by heavy fall# of snow, closed
io for a few weeks in December. *
i ? m f * The * ork on the *« ro( iro,Tie which »t»rted in
l-4_. was *tUi in progr.*. at the end of 1944, though a good
ueal of progress had been a»de in the course of the year. A
yetr t i*''T. 9 follo*». e ** tat * ° f th * * erodroine the end of the
U) f* 4 r *® ,ther strl P (natural soli;, on the East .ide .f
- rimary runway, has a width of 68 metres, a service
able length of 2500 metres ar*i ground marking!
(ii) The Primary Runway, width 49 metre*, will eventually have