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Two extra aeroplanes carrying Christmas mails for the Dutch East Indies
refuelled at Bushire after a magnificfnt flight of only 2 days from Amsterdam.
French.-—Ait France flew their weekly service regularly though they do not
fly up to daily schedule as do the Dutch machines. One mishap occurred but
that was not serions. No lives were lost but the pilot lost a finger.
Finnish .—A Finnish aviator spent one day at Bushire during a round-the-
world flight.
Persian .—One of the Swedish instructors of the Persian Air Force flew to
Bushire from Tehran and flew back with his family.
SECTION 6.
Political Situation.
The hinterland of Bushire was on the whole quiet, due chiefly to the pro
gressive disarmament policy of the Persian Oovernment.
Ali Khan Qashkai continued to resist the Military until July when he sur
rendered. He was sent to Tehran and is kept there under observation as are
other tribal Chiefs who have surrendered.
A man called Ghulam Ali Sabz, a road guard, took to highway robbery in
April, out of which he made a very good thing. He started off by killing his officer
and stealing his money. He then took to stealing flocks and holding them up to
ransom. After some months he v 7 as pressed to cease marauding and instead to
help in the general disarmament to which he seems to have acquiesced. He has
been given land as a rewurd. His original crime has apparently been forgotten,
for a while anyway.
Quiet reigned in Dashti and Tangistan during the year though the opening
of census operations was a signal for a few attacks, in which one or two people
were killed. Only one motor was attacked during the year and that the lorry
carrying the post,
Persian Mekran, Jask and Charbar.—Murad Khan and Chiragh Khan, sons
of Mustafa Khan returned to Mekran and started to plunder and molest both
the people and the Military. Mustafa Khan himself returned in the Autumn.
He handed in a few rifles and went over to the Persians. He has been permitted
to live in Old Jask.
Abdul Hussain of Remiskh, Ashraf Khan, Shir Khan and several other
recalcitrant Chiefs continued pillaging, marauding and holding captives up for
ransom. Abdul Hussain together with a Chief called Chiragh still stoutly hold
out against the Persian troops. The arrest of a Chief called Mir Muza caused
the Military to lose a friend in the person of Sardar Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division. Hussain Khan. This man
had accepted the nominal Governorship of Persian Mekran, except for Bashkaid,
and was"collecting taxes and arms, but on his request for the release of Mir
Mirza being refused he abandoned his charge and took to the hills.
The dissatisfaction caused by the commandeering of boats and animals
from, and general bad treatment of, the people by the Military has found an
outlet in immigration. Many tribesmen with their families have gone over to
Kalat, Gwadur, British Baluchistan and even the Arab Coast.
Abdul Hussain of Bashkard and his tribes resisted the Mi itary throughout
the 4r He is said to have about 1,500 men in the Somali Hills In February
he managed to rescue his family and some property that had fallen into the
hands of the Persian Government.
The Tahrzais, a tribe near „hicb, they sent off
Tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. 6,000 and a lot of grain due as taxes toge .Mtfii '
Jask revolted. They had collected M^Uy
The men of the tribe then followed their families to the Arab boast.