‘File 28/42 Persian Gulf War Trade Bureau Reports’ [‎67r] (133/194)

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Expo rt of Persian Currency Notes (Prev i ous Ref: Report No»
34 - p.2 1 - In a . p-ost card dated 27.9,1942 addressed to Jet ha-
nand Tejanma'l 'Bahrain- r Ravji Jlrav ere hand & Co., Karachi, ack
nowledged receipt of Is. 5,000/- which were to be credited to
the account of IT/s Permanand Jethannal of Dubai. A note from
one Ram ttxxx Naraindas, representative of Girdhandas Jethanand
(of Dubai) was added to the letter- in which Rapi Naraindas stated
as follows?- V-
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n I have sent you three parcels of .Persian C/Notes out of
which the last one contained 31,38'5 Kerans. These parcels
were sent through Hir jimal D.hamanmal, of which please
acknowledge the receipt. Since then the market here has
. gone up considerably and so please try to dispose these
lots at favourable rates
D.DUBAI .
Tea for Dubai The following is an extract from a letter
dated 26.9.1942 from Gokaldas Kewalram, Karachi, to Udhavdas
^Gordhandas, Dubai?-
n He (the representative of the sender at Bombay) has ex'
ported 75 cases of tea from Bombay per the S.S, Dahpu.
I have written to him to buy another 200 cases *©f tea
and ship the same to you.”
•* ' /, Part III -A • ■ :
Nummary of information relating to activities of enemy/
neutralSpnd Allied countries.
(i) Germany . • ..
(a) S horta^. of food s tuff a nd clothing^ - The) foilowing ex
tract from the ^bulletin ’International Economic News Service*
sent by I.C.A. News, Services, 14, Great Smith Si^rpet, London,
to the InternationalVCoroperahors* Association of India, Myldpore,
Madras , dated 9.7.1942 s is. of' interest ?-
n Clothing rations raduced ..: The -validity of the .present Ger
man clothing ration, of 120 points, which originally was
issued.for a period of'16 months, that is to 31st December
1942, has been prolongeatto the end of September 1943,
without a change in the pMnt value of the clothes. This
means a reduction in the cfyilian clothing ration of no ..
less than 36 per cent. \ .... ^
Potato and vegetable shiortage .h As a result , of the po*tato
.shortage in big towns which /is \ikely to last until the
main crop is brought.in, rations'have been fixed locally
which are sometimes extremely small - for instance, 4 A- lbs.
per week, which is. far belovr the" noWnal consumption. A
significant proof of the growing foo%y,difficulties during
1941 was the increasing direct purcha^ by >the consumer
of fruit and vegetables from the product, With the result
that official marketing organisations werfc not able to
collect more than 50 per cent of the quantities collected
in 1940. Fruit and vegetable growers often u^ed their pro- ■
ducts to barter for other commodities in shor\ supply. This
has now been stopped and ail direct purchases, hqf fruit and
vegetables by the consumer from the producer haVC been pro
hibited. In future the marketing organisations will collect
the entire crops from the producers.” ■
(b) German subma rine s in Dakar - The following is an extrac 1/from
letter daf e$ 9.9.12 from Peter,Grand Hotel, Khartoum. 9 '* to 'Mrs,H.fl .
Thaddeus 5 "Simla :m
The Afaerican we met came over ; to Egypt in. thChClipper'
from the TJ.S. He saw a convoy off the American coast and. Saw a forms-