Coll 30/9 'Persian Gulf: Administration Reports 1926-1938' [‎184r] (372/1028)

A Bashakiirni outlaw named Karamshah, who was in Military custody for
some time, was shot by the^Military authorities on the 13th February 1935 and
it is said that there are still 4 more to receive the same punishment.
A reception was held on the evening of 2nd Isfand (21st February 1935)’
to celebrate the Anniversary of the Coup d’etat, in the Military Office, to which
all the heads of the Government Departments and all the leading merchants
were invited, and was followed by a performance named “ Sarbaz-e-Fidakar ”
(Devoted Soldier) in which the reorganisation of the present army under His
Imperial Majesty was placed before the audience. A Military display on the
parade grounds, consisting of drill, physical exercises, bayonet fighting, and
terminated the following evening with a salute and march past before the
photograph of His Majesty. The present Officer Commanding got all the credit
for this, it being the first of its kind held by Iranian troops in Bandar Abbas.
Conscription.
Bandar Abbas .—570 conscripts were recruited during the year under
review.
Linc/ali .—NTo one has been recruited in Lingah but from the beginning of the
Noruz an office will be opened and that the Lingah people will be recruited for
the Navy.
Condition of the Country.
Bandar Abbas .—In the beginning of May 1934, the relatives of one Akbar,
a Bashakirdi outlaw, who was hanged last year and whose wife was being
escorted by four soldiers to be handed over to the Military authorities at Kahnu
in Rudbar, attacked the party killing the soldiers and setting the woman free.
The Customs depot at Sedijoh was raided by Beyaban outlaws and in the
skirmish which took place between the latter and the coastal guards, one of the
guards was wounded and brought to Bandar Abbas in May last, and sent to
Kerman for treatment.
In May 1934, the Financial Agent of Minab, wdiile returning from Roudan,
where he had been to collect outstanding revenues, was held up by Bashakirdies,
who relieved him of all his cash and disarmed the two road-guards, who accom
panied him as body guards..
One Ghulam Shah, a deserter from the Amnieh (Road Guard) ?> who was
wanted by the Amnieh for the murder of a road guard, joined the Amir, an out-
hiw The partv-consisting 14 in number-were harassing people Have -
lino- between the various villages and among other things, have killed one la.)
Mushir’s brother-in-law near Sarkoon. Ghulam Shah sent word to llaji Mushir
(a wellli owii merohant of Bandar Abbas), that he ^ f fi ^ ^
he killed Haji Mushir himself, at whose instigation rekWof
Shah were caught by villagers and handed over^tofte ^ad Guard
on the evidence of a clmdie^man who —panied
the latter on the tragic journey, and brought t < - f t recorded by the
road^guaM^as was Taken. 3 under 5 threa^Trom the relatives of the murdered
persoiic . ,
Ghulam Shah, referred to above, ^“CrhdiCTy ^hfe^Lw toTaTOTem
and said tha h h RiXl00 a^preseid aid promised more if he gave his occasional
f^^rk^iSh i^t^tiil the other outlaws.
, f iq vofn-o 0 f ace) who was wanted by the authori-
Amir, the outlaw (a boy of 18 y|ars ot ag 1 au bv his unclej handed over
ties for murdering a road guard at Sa . ot - October, as his uncle was
to the Road Guard authorities at the , g “ uld h 3 taken to task. The
ordered to produce the youth, failing ' stated that he had taken to robbery
Amir flatly denied the charge of murder , , wife, who followed him
only in order to obtain a living and not b >“ sb “ of X 7oad guards,
to Bandar Abbas, is kept as a maid servant by one ot the
Four deserters from the Amy. who the 22nd August,
wore harrassing travellers mMina ■ „. j t a village of Deb-ustad. m
they raided the house of a petty trader ot Risiim at a
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