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lieutenants : by the 24th of the same month he was back from Tehran and
again in control : some false reports had momentarily made him an object
of suspicion in the Palace and Ministry of Interior at Tehran.
Ibrahim Khan Nujumi, Superintendent of the Persian Telegraphs
since 1922, a corrupt official and dangerous mischief-maker, who had used
his post to be a spy and informer for certain persons while taking bribes
from others, and who had worked against the Indo-European Telegraph
Department in matters of building under the line, wilful damages, and
other ways, met his deserts in August: when he was summarily put on the
unemployed list: it is understood that he was considered to have misled the
Government in Tehran by false reports minimizing or hiding the insecurity
of the province, and abetting thus the Amir Lashkar. Though the Indo-
European Telegraph Department had vacated the building in the telegraph
garden in town since 1925, in order to facilitate the housing of the post-
office in a Persian Government-owned building adjoining other local ad
ministrations, Ibrahim Khan Nujumi h.ad prevented the Post-office from
occupying it till 1928. On the arrival in October of Ghulam Ali Khan
Arbabi as Acting Director both telegraph and post offices were combined
administratively under him, Haidar Khan Tiraz till then Director of Posts
being retained as Assistant.
Early in May the President of the Appeal Court and Director of the
Judicial Department, Mirza Abdul Husain Khan Sadri, at his own request
was transferred to Tehran, and in July Mirza Abdullah Khan Mustaufi (or
Garakani) a former head of the tribunal of the Ministry of Finance arriv
ed in his place- In the same month the Director of Public Health, Dr.
Sayyid Abdul Ali Khan Tibbi, was removed because of complaints as to his
bad conduct with patients and extortion : a certain Dr. Abdullah Khan has
been appointed in his room.
Two new provincial administrations were opened, and directors sent
from Tehran : (i) in September Ali Naqi Mirza Nauban arrived in Shiiaz
to start an Opium Control, entirelv independent of the Provincial Finance
Department. Up till the end of the period under review however the affairs
of the office were in confusion and receipts from the new excise duties far
less that what was anticipated : in December too Ali Naqi Mirza left and
no appointment has been made since : (ii) in August Sayyid Ali Akbar Khan
Shaikh ul-Islami, a Tabrizi who has made a good impression^ came to
Shiraz and in October opened a branch of the department for the ‘Registra
tion of Documents and Properties’. Applications for registration are
coming in more plentifully that the department can settle, the whole pro
cess taking about 5 months.
Only the Provincial Director of Finance, Mirza Humayun Khan
Sayyah, and of Education, Abul Qasim Khan Fiwuzat, were unchanged in
the period : both continued to do good work.
In district governorships, Zain-ul-Abidin Khan ’Tbrat, formerly a
deputy-governor at Bandar Abbas, was appointed to Kazarun in April, but
transferred in May to Narmashir in Kerman province. In July Fath Ali
Khan Fani (known as Khan Baba Khan) from Abadeh was transferred to
Kazarun. From Dashti and Dashtistan (Burasjan) Khadin Khan Hakimi
was transferred in July to Niriz, Basir-ud-Dauleh (Rad) being sent from
Istahbanat to Burazjan.
In August Haji Mirza Husain, for over 30 years either French Con
sular Agent at Shiraz or acting French Vice-Consul at Bushire, died : a
successor has not yet been announced.
Insecurity increased from the previous year, as the Military Com
manded less and less respect, and, if the list of incidents and robberies is
long and given in some detail here, it is so that the widespread charactei
of the disorder? and relative helplessness of the government forces to stifle
them may be grasped.
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