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Coll 30/9(2) 'Admin. Reports of the Persian Gulf - 1945 -' [338r] (675/1148)
The record is made up of 1 file (572 folios). It was created in 18 Aug 1941-31 Jul 1946. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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The definite existence of a prepared landing ground for enemy air
craft at FarrasKband was alao proved by aerial reconnaissance by the
l lf 0 The ^ovemor^eneral i rince ftwmM disci cry krowledga
of any prepared landing ground b in ^ttsh^ai territory* Fnoonfirwed
reports of other Ormans 4n the neighbourhood of ^Mraz were also
|received from time to time.
coykimrcATioNs.
Muck work was done on the SbiraB-Tsfahsn and Ohlraz—Bushire
poad during the year. This work was taker over entirely by the
British military authorities acting through their agents the Kampsax
Consortium Ltd., (a Panish-Norwegian organisation already established
in Persia). British K.^.Off5cers supervised the work. Considerable
improvement has been done to the existing road, especially on the
difficult Shiraz-Bushire section, but there was still much more to
be done by the end of the year, l arge numbers of lorries
and trucks from the U.3.A. and of military sullies for the soviet
Union passed over this road to Russia during the year.
SECURITY .
During the whole of the year there has never been complete
security of life and property either on the main ro#3 between Isfahan
and Bushire, or in the province of Fare as a whole. > n the other hand
the state of insecurity has not been such ss to prevent the movement
of traffic up and down the main road though it has militated to a
greater or less extent against the easy transport of goods and food
stuffs to the main centres of population. The ^ashgai tribal
district has not been under Government control And in the liamaasani
area government control has been very limited.
All through the year there have been periodical attacks
on labourers engaged on the road work and holds-up by robber bands -
sometimes of tribe! composition and sometimes of neighbouring
villagers, in some cases believed to have been aided and abetted
by irregular road .guards.
Most of the trouble was experienced on the 3hir*z-Kazerun
section of the road and chiefly at such notorious points as Ohihil
Cheshmeh (31 miles from Shiraz - Tul-i->jzd (30 miles from SMrez'
Deh-i-Sheikh, etc., points where side tracks to the main road afford
an easy way of approach and escape for robbers.
These banalte aimed generally at holding up and robbing
lorry drivers and travellers of their cash and clothes, but in certain
cases attempts were made to go off with loads, mor*e especially in
the case of tea and sugar.
Trouble of this nature was less frequent on the Shiraz-Isfahan
section. In the spring of the year however s number of robberies
occurred in the neighbourhood of the Sivand-Baadetabad loop(56 miles
from Shiraz> perpetrated by farsl^Ambs on the move of the tribe
northwards to their summer grazing grounds. The removal of the
officer (Captain Fuhamad Hussein Arab) from the post of military
governor of the Khamseh Arab Tribes and his replacement by Captain
Amir Sadri soon improved matters, and on their downward trek in the
autumn these > rabs caused no trouble.
One British R. .Officer was a victim of a hold up towards
the end of the year when his car was stopped some 3 wiles outside
Shiraz and he received a bullet wound in the arm. On another occasion
an American officer (Captain Wilson)travelling as a passenger on a
lorry lorry from Bushire to Shiraz was a victim and was stripped
of his revolver and kit. An American Agricultural Adviser, Professor
7/insor, also experienced a hold ux> and was robbed. Similarly two
British officials of the Kemanshah Petroleum Company Limited travelling
from Isfahan to Shiraz were held up and robbed of their cash and
clothes.
Ko lease-lend trucks or material moving from Bushire to the
north were seriously interfered with, though on one occasion three
trucks, forming part of a convoy driven by Russian drivers were
stopped by bandits and one Russian soldier lost hi^ rifle and some
cash. On a few occasions both United Kin dom Con^iercial her, oration
transport, and Kermanshah Petroleum Tanker lorries were stopped
and the drivers robbed of their cash and belongings.
At the end of the year a British Reconnaiseance Party from
an Indian Motor Brigade visited the area a \d Brigadier Pilose,
accompanied by the Additional Military Attach and an officer deputed
by C.I.C.I. Bagdad, was deputed by the Commander--in-Chief Paiforce to
examine
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This file consists of copies of the annual 'Administration Reports of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ' prepared by the Political 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. in Bushire for the years 1939-1945.
These annual reports are divided up into a number of separate reports for different geographical areas, usually as follows:
- Administration Report for Bushire Area
- Administration Report for Kerman & Yazd
- Administration Report for Bandar Abbas
- Administration Report for Kuwait Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
- Administration Report for Bahrain Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
- Administration Report for Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. , Muscat
- Administration Report for Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
- Administration Report for Khorramshahr Consulate
These separate reports are themselves broken down into a number of sub-sections that vary according to each report, but include the following topics:
- Personnel
- Visitors
- Foreign Representatives
- British Interests
- Local Administration
- Transport
- Education
- Military
- Aviation
- Political Situation
- Trade
- Medical
- Meteorological
The reports are all introduced by a short review of the year written by the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. .
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- 1 file (572 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 574; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. Additional foliation sequences are present in parallel between ff 1-571; these numbers are written in pencil or crayon and, where circled, are crossed through.
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- Coll 30/9(2) 'Admin. Reports of the Persian Gulf - 1945 -'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:448r, 448r, 449r:573v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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