"تقرير الإدارة عن المقيمية السياسية في الخليج الفارسي للأعوام ١٩١٥-١٩١٩" [و‎‎١‎٧] (٣٩٦/٤٠)

FOR THE YEAR 1915. 23
Commerce was practically suspended throughout the year. The Hindus
Commerce. managed with difficulty to import sufficient
quantities of ordinary commodities such as
oil, tea, sugar, etc., to supply the demands but prices remained very hi^h,
lowards the end of the year a few consignments of carpets were despatched O to
Bandar Abbas and unfortunately two of these were captured in Jiruft bv the
Baluchi raiders. Excepting just during the Baluch raid into Jiruft the roads
irom the coast were safe and the lew caravans which used them were un
molested.
The Hospital was managed by Dr. Dodson with the same skill and success
Church Missionary Society. ^ ^ P reY j ( iUS years. It Was kept WOrk-
I'f 1*0 Ko ■; i i i -, ln ^ 1 ^ s capacity all the time and
-n sincerely hoped that the damage done by its sojourn in the hands
of the Democrats will not be _ irretrievable. Mr. Borland's school was flourish-
mg until the change of administration and the amount of " kultur " imbibed
by the pupils is not likely to be sufficient to do them any permanent injury.
There was no internal event of any importance in the European com-
The European Community. mumty. The Europeans were naturally
41^ , .' made somewhat anxious bv the suenpss nf
the German propaganda m Ispahan, Shiraz and the West of Persia but they
lefused to beneve tha, Kerman would join the movement. They did not realise
that Kerman was only the scene of the play, that the actors were a company
t Tehram Democrats, tutored and supported by two Germans and that the
Kermams were simply supers paid for or intimidated into^aying tL ncce s !
sary banner-bearers and mob. His Majesty's Consul had tried without
wn them ' t0 , S et the community to unostentatiously put things
together a bit in preparation for a hurried evacuation but they put him down
as unnecessarHy nervous and when the crisis came they were quite unprepared
y did however manage to get their necessary travelling kit together and pack
a ™ ount tileir belongings and they all got down safe and well
to the coast where a transport met them and took them on to Bombay.
The weather was perfectly normal throughout the year. A little snow
Meteorological. ^ January and Eebruary with a little rain
j . . * after, and the usual hisrh winds and dnqf-
temperatures =^1^°^ 0f ^ ^ ^
any d^magr^ 6 tW0 0rthree shocks of earthquake but not severe enough to do
C. DUCAT, Lieutenant-Colonel,
Bis Britannic Majesty's Consul. Kerman.
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