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thirty government rifles have been handed over to nlohd All Khan
Khaliii on the security of i 4 a ? een ut TuJ,)ar 0
(19) According to report?* received on 20th June from Agha
jari* the mounted gendazwerie patrola which were intended to
maintain pecurity on iJie fifteen mile hill rector of the Oa^h
^aran road between Pazan^ and Agha Jari had been out only twice
since their inception u fortnight previously.) Hoi-hVic 2 e--Coneul P
in the course of four journeys on the read in the last v/eek of
the month?found the patrol functioning once and then only two
sawarr were out*
(20) ?he split which the Persian authorities had endea
voured to bring about between Abdullah Khan Zarghampur and his
brother Khusrow (compare para 21 of the last diary) hag appar
ently not materialised and Khuercw is credibly reported to have
rejoined his brother*
(21) The Oo Co Gendarmerie at Kindijun* who is a nephew of
the notorious Bahadur ;;anawati of Behbahan P was arrested on in
formation supplied by the Bakghdar and Chief of Customs that he
we© implicated in the illegal export of wheat and import of arms
and amaunitiono The source of information is rather curious P an
the CoLoOo in 1942 suspected that the Bakhahdar and the Chief cf
Customs were themselves cosmected with the expert ®f wheat,
^Lotion against suspects in the Bandar Ua«hur ^fsa on 20th June
waa unsuccessful § Behbahani r the Anglo-Irani an Oil Company labour
contractor at Bandar 5 ?h&hpur r woo arrested cn suspicion and his
house searched without reeultp as meet cf hie labour is engaged
daily and he apparently had no deputy to act for him vhile uiider
detontion? the incident resulted in a shortage of labour and a
stoppage of work tor one day*
(88)
Gendarmes in the outlying areas around Behbahan area are
reported tc have dis ccrered a profitable variation cn the usual
sale of government arms and ammunition* A gendarme
horrowp tea or sugar frw* a villager^ giving him m security a
number of rounds of government ainmuniticno A second gendarme la
ter searches the villager ; o house., ^discovers’- the illicit
ammunition and tak-^s a reasonable sum for net reporting the of-
fonoe? and ^confiscates'- the ^munition which he returns to his
accoaiplioeo
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of the last Ahsraz diary 9
VIS Tribal ? ah- „
(28) With reference to para
it is understood that the new Ocvernor-Oeneral- hlm#e If a ^aid
and well-known locally for sympathetic treatment of the Arabs—
has not only recomtnenriled that Baid iBfia nhould be allc?wQd to
leave Burujlrdp but that he should be pe^ittadp should he so
deni re f to return to Ahwaz arid remain there on parole?
(34) An old dispute over tha ownership of five villages in
the north of the Jorrahi estate,, which is new in the hands of
the jthwaz deputy Nasserip has broken out again* sheikh iAabmxid
Jassera claimed that Niz?am up nultanoh made him a gift of these
vildges and that Hheifch Khaza -1 afterwards confiwaed the gift*
According to popular tradition P when the late Ghah visited
Khalafabad in 1S35 P sheikh. Ual^nud went tc the expense of hiring
and clothing two hundred Nomad- women to put up a gratifying
show cf emancipated womanhood and also presented Keza shah with
the/? ar/wus horge in Khuzistan in order to extract a royal pro-
mine for the return of his viliugego Aghai Nangeriy who guessed
quite riglitly that the promise would be forgot ten iC has succeeded
in collecting rent from the disputed villages most yearsr this
yoar P however r he has remained mysteriously ubeont from Xhusiz-
tan since the beginning cf the harvest P and sultani, the deputy
for Bohbahim f \ 7 ho is apparently acting on Nusseri ? n behalf t
seocnr to be making little progress^