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more peaceful. The Army has been disarming the Tangistanis and Dashtistams
in the opening months of 1930.
16. Naturally, with political conditions so disturbed, security was conspi
cuous by its, absence on most of the roads in Fars. Gar and caravan robberies were
far too numerous to recount in detail here ; but the attack on a car carrying
members of the Church Missionary Society on the Bushire road m April deserves
special mention : Mr. Proctor, driver of the car, and Miss Hennques, a lady
doctor, were wounded by the brigands. The Bushire road was very unsate m
April and May, closed completely for June and most of July, opened ml ei-
mittentlv in August, September and October on payment of rahdari, and oiten
closed from November to March by rain, snow, or floods, the winter being a
particularly cold and wet one for Fars,. The road to Isfahan was kept open
better after the troubles, but was closed to car traffic m January and h ebrua 3
through severe weather. The road- via Ninz to Kerman and Bandar Abbas was
seldom open at all owing to robberies. The trade of Shiraz suffered veiy
seriously from these adverse conditions. >
17. The Indo-European Telegraph Department also had a {difficult year. m
May 13th one wire was interrupted 22 miles west of Shiraz by Darashuri tribes
men and many insulators, were broken. On May 20th one line was interrupted
10 miles west of Shiraz. On the 21th a second line was interrupted. On June
4th the Qashqais cut all lines near Dasht-i-Arzan and refused to allow them to
be repaired All lines to Isfahan were cut early in the morning of June 6th ; one
was kXd on June 8th, the other two later Between Dasht-i-Arazan and
Kazerun, wilful damage occurred on a large scale ; of ^ J e tc
removed wholesale, poles uprooted, insulators broken, Stalks removed, etc
Ghulams out on duty were repeatedly robbed, but bravely went out time after
time to repair the lines while the authorities refused to .gave them an escort of
ndlftarv Ji road-guards. On June 25th all line were interrupted south of
Konnar fkS, and on the 26th again cut north of ^onar Takhteh One Ime
was reconstructed from Shiraz to Kazerun m the middle of July, but vas a a
wrecked ten miles out of Shiraz on July 23rd, six spans of wire bemg nut out.
Permanent repairs on the section Shiraz-Kazerun could not be effected by the
f s S Supmintendent until October, when an escort was at last provtoed
bv the military authorities. The Ghulams who were rohhed while on dri y
reeeived uo compensation from the Persian Government, nor did Department
recover the value of Government property stolen from its rest-houses and its
seivants^ administra ti on; no great changes took place. The
Opinm Monopoly Administration ceased to b ® of Finance,
Altrza Hnmai'uriiaian'sayyahjoraditsaccounts^n hopeless confusion on taking
Muza Humajm ^ e 5 alled to Tehran at the end of July, having refused to
to ‘ Zjf~ of tte Amir Lashkar Shaibani in financial affairs.
Chief of I Olice in J-Sia n an. whole Y e ar , and his sphere was extend-
Fiyuzat, remamet a xi P showed considerable activity, travelling
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existing Schools and the foundation of new ones. n , , ,, o
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significant exception oi uie i a ii the winter. In the spring
loose earth which made it abso u 1 - d h work C) f destruc-
similar avenues were planned m otb f P“ ts , “ t fT impediment of traffic,
tion commenced in twenty Pf^ Av Wove the tow" a vast number of pro-
Whilo these changes may eventu 5 1 ^ hit by the destruction ; and
perty owners, V^Vigtrcss following a civil disturbances and bad trade, has left
ttJ’town'as a Whole much impoverished and by no means well aisposed towards
the Pahlavi regime.