Coll 30/9(2) 'Admin. Reports of the Persian Gulf - 1945 -' [‎320r] (639/1148)

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SECTION 4.
WAR SUPPLIES .
The year under report has seen .Bushire transformed
from a port of declining prosperity to the terminus of an
important supply line for lease-lend aid to Russia. A plant
for the assembly of lorries shipped here from the TJ.S.A. has
been set up; and although the supply of equipment and of staff
has been disappointingly meagre, surprisingly good results have
been achieved with the material available. The local lighters
have been reinforced by two tugs and five barges sent by the
Inland Water Transport, Basra.
SECTION 5.
TRIBAL AND POLITICAL .
(a) Dashti . This area has been in a state of chronic
revolt during the year, the chief opponent of the Government
regime being one All Ismail, the smuggler chieftan of Bandar
OptraLons c Paiyir. At the beginning of the year a military force was
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sent to Khormuj, in northern Pashti; but it accomplished
nothing until in Kay it was reinforced by an additional 300 men
with two tanks. An advance was then made to KSaki, and a few
shots were fired. But the fruits even of this slight success
were thrown away by entering into negotiation with the rebels?
and when a further move v/as made on Daiyir, an unofficial
adviser in the form of a certain Sheikh Abdullah Bora^jani was
attached to military headquarters* This person succeeded in
preventing an^ such results as might have been achieved by the
military commander, from becoming effective; and when*
eventually an attack was made on paiyir, contrary to his advice,
he was in the town negotiating with All Ismail, and escaped
with him. The troops v/ere soon afterwards withdrawn and a
subsequent visit of the Chief of Staff, Jars, to the area
produced a pleasant profit for him; but its result was that
the rebels were permitted to remain armed, and a subsequent