"تقرير الإدارة عن المقيمية السياسية في الخليج الفارسي للأعوام ١٩١٥-١٩١٩" [و‎‎١‎٩] (٣٩٦/٤٤)

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FOE THE lEAR 1915. 27
CHABBAE.
Mr. F. J. Hughes continued to hold charge of the telegraph station and to
British Officials look after tlle in terests of the British
subjects residing at that place.
Mr. Johannes Pater, Collector of Customs, left Charbar on the 11th May.
Persian Customs. ^ successor, Mirza Assadullah Khan,
arrived on the 1st June. The latter was
relieved, on 1st December, by Mirza Ibrahim Khan who has been there since.
Shahdad Abbas and Yusaf Safar were the Walis of Charbar throughout
Wali8 . the year acting under the orders of ^Mirs
Din Muhammad and Mahmud Khan
respectively. The latter chief appointed Sulaiman Dilwush as ioint Wali with
Yusuf Safar, on the 26th October.
In June, Saleh Muhammad, a British subject, was arrested by the orders
Espionage. of ^ Officer Commanding the Military
detachment on the charge of supplying
information of any use to the enemies of the British Government. His house
was searched, nothing incriminating was found but as his presence was undesir
able, in view of the disturbed state of the country, he was deported to Karachi
and handed over to the Police there.
In September, a Baluch, named Q,adi Bukhsh, accompanied by two others.
Slaves. came to Charbar with the object of kid-
, Ila Ppi I1 & Mohtag Sarwash, a manumitted
slave-girl, but she managed to elude them. Later on they caught Jomuk
barwash, also a manumitted slave, and decamped. The matter was referred
to Shai Dost Muhammad, brother of Saiyid Khan, who recovered the bov and
sent him back to Charbar.
The strength of the Military detachment kept here for the protection of
Native Troops, the Telegraph station, was 100 rank and
file under one British officer and one
Indian officer.
The following ships of His Majesty's Navy and Royal Indian Marine
K- aV y. jrisited Charbar during the year :—"Fox",
'Dartmouth", "Pelorus", "Philomel",
Pyramus " Bramble", " Odin " and t£ Dalhousie
GWADUH.
Munshi Abdul Hahim was Native Assistant during the year.
Shaikh Ghalib bin Ali was removed, on 14th July, from the Waliship of
Waii. Gwadur. He was succeeded by Saiyid
-i * . , , Hamud who remained up to IStfcF October
ofMaskat yPrillCe Salim, hr0theT 0f the preseilt ruler
Seth Muhammad Bahmoo continued to hold charge of the Sultan's
Customs. Customs.
All disputes arising between British subjects were settled by arbitration
judicial. 011 s pot or by correspondence with
me at Karachi.
Thirteen fugitive slaves took refuge in the office of the Native Assistant
Slaves.
during the year. All of them were sent
to Karachi at Government expense.
In July two women and four men, all from British Mekran, arrived
Murder.
from Basrah. Two of the men murdered
,.^+1 i.- c . i one 0 f tt 16 women. Eobbery was appa-
rently the motive. Special messengers were sent out with orders for the
arrest of the murderers who had made their escape. One of the murderers was
arrested by the Naib at Mund. The two men and the woman of the party
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