Coll 30/9 'Persian Gulf: Administration Reports 1926-1938' [‎216v] (437/1028)

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There is a staff of 70 persons who clean up the Town. An infirmary is kept
• No accounts have been or are being published for 1933.
' SECTION 4.
Military artd Marine.
The Military garrison of Bushire was increased in January by the
RoadX^r ° ram ’ KhaWaZ and ° ther Stati ° nS Which placed by
1,800 new rifles were distributed to the Bushire and district garrison.
Idle Bushire recruiting office was re-opened in August and the uaners „u
youths who were exempted last year were re-examined. About 750 vontw
enrolled including those from Borazjan from where the taking of coIscr pL was
started for the first time. ° scripts was
In May a Colonel of Military wms sent to Bushire to investis-ate comm • +
of conscripts. The men apparently complain of severity of disdpUne and bad
mng arrangements. Judging by our standards the discipline siems lax and
the living conditions are evidently better than a large number of the me i wnffid
otherwise experience. W0ll M
The Persian Navy, under the command of Major Ghuiam Hussain KW
Bayendor, has been cruising up and down the coadt and has had quite an fid
mg year, capturing sailing boats and helping to put down smuggling Those of
the sailing boats which were armed often put up a stout reSstance ffd n f
gave m at the last moment. The gunboat “ Karlas ” is the soil boat wltholt
a capture to her credit She, however, landed a party at Bushire Ihilh mo
seeded to search some houses, thereby grossly offending* the lanH wi
who, as in most eventualities, wrote to Vlhran about it authonties,
. . 0ne captured smuggler overstepped the bounds of Per^h™ r
giving away the fact that some of the money taken from him wf Recency by
The captures are as follows :
Sailing boats..
6
1
1 2
2
2
Sloop “ Palang
Sloop “ Babr ”■
Gunboat “ Chahrookh
Gunboat “ Shahbaz ”
Gunboat Simnrgh M
fact tiud to hiffiice'those'to le^vTon^c ’^y be judged by the
pired—15 Tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. pal a month I T P eriod of service has ex
conscripts in the Navy as in the Army olfy^t 7 “! The
too was, as regards the Navy, 3 months ovenlue at tte begiW g h thel eaT 8
tinned as in the previous year. More than 400 X III” conVslatld ."' 38 C ° n '
SECTION 5.
Aviation.
their service . ° vct the the <Mf.
Bushire ei-ther EastwardsTr Wesb^rds bound aer0planes were flown over
Expedition !^ 6 fllg:ht " hlCh Ianded in Bush!r e was the Houston Mount Everest
Two Of the other planes were piloted by women.
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without any mishap. * M ' contlinied tlieir weekly service throughout the year