Coll 30/9 'Persian Gulf: Administration Reports 1926-1938' [‎186v] (377/1028)

CHAPTER V.
Administration Report ok His Majesty's Consulate, Kep.man, eoetjie year]934
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A.— British Interests.
1. His Majesty’s Consulate — Personnel. —Major C. H. Lincoln, O.B.E.
remained in charge of the Consulate throughout the year.
Major Lincoln left for Bandar Abbas, on tour, on the 19th January and
returned to Kerman on the 25th March. He proceeded on a short visit to
Tehran on the 20th May and returned on the 2nd June.. A short visit was paid
to Bandar Abbas, in company with Major Pybus, Military Attache, to His
Majesty’s Minister, Tehran, between the 19th and 23rd June.
His Majesty’s Consul left for Bandar Abbas, en route to Charbar, on the
26th November, to enquire into the complaints received from certain British
subjects at the latter place.
2. Consulate work, etc. — (a) 29 British subjects were registered at the
Consulate during the year, the number for 1933 also being 29.
(b) The espionage on the Consulate, which continued during 1931 and
1932 and relaxed in the early part of 1933, was again revived for some time hi
October 1934, when men of the local Secret Police were seen to be prviny
round the Consulate and houses of members of the clerical staff. It was a^ain
iclaxed after His Majesty’s Consul left for Charbar.
(c) The King’s Birthday was celebrated in the usual manner on the 4th
June. A reception was held in the morning and attended by the Governor-
General, his assistant, the Chief of the Municipality, the European community
and heads of foreign firms. In the evening a dinner party was given, to which
the three I ersian officials mentioned above and all members of the European
colony were invited. The Governor-General was unable to come to the latter
function, owing to sudden ill-health, while the Chief of Police was absent on
both occasions, on the ground of his having been recalled and his relief’s arrival
being awaited the same day.
n 1 + • UT British Indian motor drivers from Zahidan complained to the
.onsu ate in the month ot April that the Police authorities in Kerman had
confiscated their cmving licences and told them that foreigners were not
anowed to work m Persia as motor drivers any more ! The local Chief of
o ice, v\ 10 v as appioached privately by the Consulate, explained that the men
had beeii taken to task not on account of their nationality, but because they
/ ohinhhrtnri tv ^ n trans P ort regulations. Private enquiries, however,
i A , J0 act *the interference by* the Police was nothing more, or
of Vhpir pirn t i mp +* 1 ° mPllce 1 the parties concerned to part with a portion
colli no- nf , 1 ’ V’ U ’ ay Bie complainants eventually proceeded to Yezd without
an ^ amicaWe ^sctUemMit^ 3111 ’ * presumed that the ^ ^ ^ed l,v
in August b\'^^InovPi o- 1 1 ih^eurred the _ Governor-General’s displeasun
had increase i i Ai t lat the.bulk of water in a certain under-ground channe
Iftor'hehP rkehrl v ‘ 1 ' C a former British Consul. The offender
released after °severy t0 the House in a ear, b»
and ^lavhm'wVnrntf.' 1 '°“ ' S t he Passing through the Consulate grounds
■Voel l- To fone J7i y ; ClJ “r ed b y the of Lieut-Colonel E. W. C
n 1JoU ’ 16 0Jle ot the few that were not affected bv the floods of 1932.
gaidentm al^he rf r !y > tlle J^ar to have the Consulate buildii
Office. ’ The neee« r hmtlan ce “ eter n registered at the local Kegist
ssc V °6s v ere paid and the required formalities fulliH
and
tion office.