Coll 28/117 ‘Persia. Kerman, Yezd – (Bandar Abbas): Intelligence Summaries.’ [‎216r] (434/517)

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Consular Officials* . ^
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396. Lt-Colon ©1 vTT•D• WilITO^^hby # H.II.Consul, Kerman, pro-
-oeeding on Home leave, handed over charge to Mr.R.M.Hadow, H.M.
Consul, Bandar Abbas, on the 38th October*
397. Lt-Colonel H#C*Alban, 0.B,S.,arrived on the 3rd Novem-
-ber and assurned charge as H* **ConBul, Kerman, the same day*
398. Mr*R.M*Hadow left for Bandar Abbas on the 6th.
British Subjects*
399. Dr.R#E.M # Wheeler, Director General of Archaeology to the
Government of India and party arrived from Zahidan on the 29th and
left for Tehran the next day.
Persian Officials.
400. Aqai Kasrawi, the new Chief of the Education Department
arrived on the 20th.
401. Aqai Afzal Roohi, Head of the Waqf Department, retimed
from Tehran on the 4th*
402. Aqai ivi ehdi Shahrukh, the u standar, left for B & ndar Abbas
on the 7th«
403# Sarhang iiaiyid Azizi , G*0 *C#, Kerman, and Sarhang Goodar-
-zi, O.C.Gendarmerie, left for Z a hidan and Bam respectively, on the
10th and returned a fortnight later.
Security*
404. Reference para 356. Hussain Khan Buchakchi is rep<r ted
to have contacted the G.0*C* on his return from ^andar Abbas but
no further information of any settlement has come to hand.
405. During the period under report two cases of highway rob-
-bery have been reported. Some local butchers proceeding to Zerend
to buy sheep were attacked and relieved of Tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. 10 f 000/».
406. A caravan on the B a rdsir-Higar road was held up by a gang
of Baluchis on the 24th and goods and money totalling about tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. -
18 # 000/- were carried away.
407. A unconfirmed report states that Iman Ali f a notorious,
bandit in the Keiman area, has been killed by the riflemen of
Bahadur ul Mulk at Bard sir*
408. In a skirmish between gendarmes and armed robbers who
attacked a caravan on the road about 30 miles from Yazd two
bandits were killed and the entire loot was restored to their
owner s.
Economic.
409. Certain local mar chants continue to smuggle large quanti-
-ties of ghee to more distant provinces where higher prices prevail*
with the result that ghee is selling at the abnormally high rate of
rials 360/- per 3 kilos. ^
410* In spite of bumper crops from the last harvest wheat bread
in the free bakeries is sold at rials 6.50 per kilo. Rationed bread
has been steadily deteriorating for many months and all but the
poorest have long since ceased to buy it. Wheat and barley for
’•‘ationed oread was being delivered to bakers from Government 'ambara*
m separate sacks instead of being previously mixed in the proportion
of one part of barley to 2 of wheat. The result was that bjkers were
celling the wheat in the black market and giving the public an un-
-palatable mixture of barley and other grains.
411.
ho sugar or tea has been distributed to coupon-holders for