Coll 28/120 ‘Persia. Ahwaz – Consular diaries.’ [‎165r] (330/669)

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'ROM 15th JANUABY ?0 31-t rrAMTARY 1944
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I. MOyDMEN ’ 0 03< 1 BRITISH OyFICIALq.
, 8 - MAR 1941
( 1 ) % H.M,Consul-General visited Hamidiyeh and Ahu
Daght during the period under report. He als® visited I«Ia.
^Consul Khorrarnshahr.
.(2). i/ir.J. .Gethin arrived on the 21st from Cairo to
relieve i.ir* a.H.B.H ermann, HCM.‘/ice-Conpul.
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( 3 ). Mr*Hermann left for the U♦K. on leave ®n the 31st.
(. Hr.comers Cocks, 1st Secretary of the Legation
and Capt .McConaghey Vice-Consul Khorramshahr, spent me
night in Ahwaz on their way to Tehran*
( 5 )„ Colonel Underwood, P.A,Khuzistan visited Ahwaz
and Magjid-i-°ulaiman during the period under report*
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( 6 ) . The Governor General, the director of Customs,
and the Officer in charge of the Railway Police proceeded to
Khorramshahr on the 20 th and returned on the 22 nd.
( 7 ) . °arhang Mustashari r turned frsm leave in ^ehran.
( 8 ) . Paspyar Alhurz returned to Ahmaz on the 33rd.
(9) . Mr.eolemon visited M.I.during the period
under report.
ill. 0C0TT0MIC.
(10). Grain collections against a 15C sugar barter
continues to "bring in wheat. rn otal grain collections in
Khuzistan now t&tal oArer 19,000 tons. Hie co r, t of wheat on
the "black market has in consequence fallen from 420 Rials for
half a cwt t® 320 Rials. It is expected to fall/250 in the
near future. 7 to
(.1). The meat situation is still had. Efforts are
being nv de to use the ration distribution in the villages
an inducement to the owners of flocks to sell their
oheep direct to the "butcher-. Rations canrst, ®f course,
be distributed in exchan; e for sheep and goats.
^he possibilities of organising a private
Company ®r establishing a Government monopoly are being
reviewed. Both courses are ©pen to many objections,
(12) . The ®pening of a Government shop to sell a
cloth ration at Government price caused a mild riot,
eventually a cordon of police was drawn round ‘he shop.
The Persian soldiers in the crowd 1 °re the rn«st unruly.
(13).
sugar in
rn he Arabs
The distributions of a ration of cloth,tea and
the Arab villages has been very well received,
are pleased at some attention being paid to them.
'"Hie cost of Resht rice has fallen by about 20' .
HCALTH.
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Health c®ntinues te be good. 'The director of
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