"تقرير الإدارة عن المقيمية السياسية في الخليج الفارسي للأعوام ١٩١٥-١٩١٩" [ظ‎‎٤‎٨] (٣٩٦/١٠٣)

18 PERSIAN GULF ADMINISTEATION REPORT
Twenty-six slaves took refuge at the Vice-Consulate during the year,
Thirteen of them were manumitted and
Slaves ' the remainder were either returned to
their masters or absconded while their cases were under consideration.
Brigadier-General Sir Percy Sykes arrived on the 16th March to raise and
organize a force of Military Police (after-
south Persia Rifles. wards called South Persia Eifles) to take AD
the place of the gendarmerie in Southern Persia. He was accorded an enthu
siastic welcome by all classes.
Recruiting was brisk for the first month or two. Three hundred men
enlisted, but as they were found to be very poor specimens it was decided to
raise the standard of medical examination and to go further afield for recruits.
At first the results were disappointing and few recruits were forthcoming; wliid
but towards the end of the year, with the assistance of the Residency at Bushire, i 11 ? ^
a fair number of Tangistani recruits were obtained.
Sir Percy Sykes left Bandar Abbas with a column of troops on the 17th n 1011 ^
May for Kerman where they arrived without event on the 11th June. Assisi
Colonel Ducat with the British and Russian colonies arrived on the 10th wasr
Miscetiaueous. January from Kerman. Colonel Ducat
proceeded to Mascat to take up his
appointment as Political Agent, the other members of the British Colony
proceeded to India and the Russian Consul and his Cossacks remained in me ^
Bandar Abbas. Indis
His Excellency the Naval Commander-in-Chief arrived in H.M.S ^^
visit of His Majesty's ships. Euryalus " on the 17th May and left ierl]
the same day.
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