Coll 30/9(2) 'Admin. Reports of the Persian Gulf - 1945 -' [‎503v] (1006/1148)

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the road-guards^ lost no opportunity to make things
difficult.
Three sub-Govemorships were abolished during the
year and the duties performed^very unsatisfactorily, by
rapacious subordinate officials.
Ali Ismail, a Dashti tribal chief - of whom we have —«
been hearing a great deal lately - gave the local
authorities considerable trouble throughout the year.
Conditions in Bushire town were bad owing to
increased unemployment and rising prices. Trade declined
and stocks kept in the Customs were reduced by the end
of the year. The general position of the Etemadieh
spinning and weaving mill^ improved. Debts were paid
off and more employees taken on.
Chapter III Shiraz (pages 16-18) . ...
"The year was one of increasing hardship and TAe £
discontent" due partly to the war and partly to internal ^ - fh«xC f\jL
conditions - diminishing trade, corrupt officials and
rising prices, all of which evils were blamed on the
British,who were thought to support Re»a Shah and his
Government. Public security was good except in Pars
where the ^ashgai and the Boir Ahmadi were making
trouble,as they are to-day.
A shortage of wheat in Isfahan and Northern Iran
developed during Ihe Autumn due to two bad harvests and
accentuated by hoarding.
Chapter IV Kerman and Bandar Abbas, (pages 19-27) •
British trade with Kerman via Bandav Abbas was
considerably curtailed owing to the war, but Indian
trade was favourably maintained.
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The post of U s tandar of Kerman was vacant throughout
the year and that of Farmandar for eight months of the
year$ 'the Farmandar* s Head Clerk being left in charge.
Wheat becamq scarce during the Autumn owing to large
sales to Russia and to maldistribution of the remainder.
The security situation deteriorated and there were retorts
of highway robberies.
Broadcasts from Delhi and London counteracted,to
some extent ; Creman propaganda^ but the feeling that the
British were somehow responsible for the miseries of
Persia persisted.
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Chapter V Kuwait, (pages 28-31) *
Relations between the Sheikh and the Political
Agent were cordial, but Major Galloway lelt uhat the
Sheikh was resisting British influence.
The conclusion of \ Trade,3on Voisinage and
Extradition Agreements be tv/een H.M.G., on benal^ 01 the
Sheikh > and Saudi A r abia, led to a revival of trade and
increased Treasury receipts. Efforts were made to
induce the Sheikh to make a budget and to bring order out
of the chaos in that Department.
Security in the desert remained good. The drought
meant severe hardship to the Bedouin.
The Sheikh and the Subah family received £30, 69 A.
rom H.M.G. as compensation for past and future taxation
n his date gardens. The settlement of the Subah lands