"تقرير الإدارة عن المقيمية السياسية في الخليج الفارسي للأعوام ١٩١٥-١٩١٩" [و‎‎١‎٢‎٤] (٣٩٦/٢٥٤)

POR THE YEAH 1918.
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The Shiraz mails continued to pass through Lingah Pe r the rrost part
th.e roads to and from Linsah "were sale.
Condition roa.s. ^ There was only One incident on the road
between Bandar Abbas and Lingah. The Deputy Governor requisitioned 420
donkeys for the South Persia Eities and despatched them to Bandar Abbas on
the 29th J tine. The donkeys were seized at Duzgooa by men belonging to villages
nf Hirang and Duzgoon and taken to Hirang. The tufangchis of the Deputy
Governor who were in charge of the donkeys were severely beaten. His
Majesty's Representative strongly represented the ca^e to the Soulet-ul-Mulk,
Khan of Bastak, who punished the culprits, collected the donkeys and des
patched them to Bandar Abbas.
No instance of gun running was re-
Arm9 traffic - ported during the year.
Of the three slaves, who were from the Trucial coast and who had not had
Slavetraffic their cases settled at the close of the last
01i e absconded before settlement of his
case, one was allowed to go wherever he liked and the remaining one was sent
back to the Residency Agent at Shargah in order to get his case settled there.
Of the 11 slaves who took refuge at this Vice-Consulate during the year,
nine were manumitted, one absconded before settlement of his case and" the
remaining one was sent back to the Residency Agent at Shargah.
The mail service was maintained by the Persian Customs launch io and
British interests.
from Henjam where the British India
Steam Navigation Company's Mail stea
mers were calling fortnightly.
Mails were occasionally also brought by His Majesty's Transports, which
visited the port on 11 occasions.
The port suffered throughout the year from the scarcity of merchant stea
mers. only four steamers of the British India Steam Navigation Company's
visiting the port during the period. The Persian Gulf Steam Navigation Com
pany's S. S. f Zayani " called at this port on two occasions and a Chinese
steamer once.
One Chinese steamer chartered by the British India Steam Navigation
Foreign interest.. Company visited the port during the year.
J. H. Bill, Esq., J.C.S., Deputy Political Eesident, Bushire, visited Lingah
Visits of the Deputy Political Resident. OU H. M. S. Muzaffar " On the 19th
T , January and on H. M. S. {t Lawrence "
m the 2nd July.
vieitsof Hi. Majesty's ships. His Majesty's ships visited the port
on 13 occasions during the year.
In February a sailing boat belonging to Haji Eais Hasan of Lingah, after
Pi racyi disposing of cargo at Nakhl Taqi, was
boarded at that port by a party of five
armo 8 P a f e ^ ers ^ 0r Lingah. When a day out at sea they produced fire-
on n the boat proceed to the port of Amari where
,• f rtV ? ' :)0 J in ^ the crew and carried off all the specie on board amount-
wg to about Rs. 7,000 proceeds of the sale of cargo.
erl a Sambook belonging to Ali bin Haji Mansur, Bahraini, ground-
Natl 1 t • with a cargo of dates which was looted by the people of
<vp +1? a( ^ 1 a Both the cases remained unsettled towards the end
or tne year.
rwJ? le -i C ? se ^ ie " Zaver Parsad," which was wrecked off Busati in
October 1913, still remained unsettled.
A sailing boat with cargo and specie to the value of Rs. 90,000 belonging
Shipwrecks to ^ aru( l or ' Bahrain was wrecked, in Sep
tember, off Tibn.