مجموعة ٥/٣٠(١) "يوميّات الخليج الفارسي: المقيمية البريطانية في بوشهر (الفارسية) يناير ١٩٤١" [و‎‎٢‎٠‎٠] (٩٣٨/٤٠٠)

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Fnishire In telligence S um mary No.21
for the p erio d I5t h to 30th November 194 3,
I. HOVE!ENTS. j - r
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(a) British Offici als .
Captain R. McConaghey, His Majesty's Vi
Khorranshahr, visited Bushire for a fe\V day3.v4^r
(h) Alli ed Official s.
Nil.
(c) Per sian Q ffi cl aIs .
(i) Pasyar Colonel Qasim Jahid, Chief o-l Police 3
died on November ISth. Since taking over in 1942, he had
effected great improvements in the discipline of the local
police, which had suffered severely from the regime of his
predecessor. He was much liked in the town, and^was a lea‘
inp member of the Anglo-Persian Reading Room committee.
Rasadban I l1st Lieutenant) Chaffari of the
police in Borazjan arrived on the 23rd November and took charge
of the office temporarily
(ii) Aoai Khwajeh Nuri arrived from Ghiraz on
November 2Sth and took charge of the Registration Department.
II• LOCAL AF FAIR3 .
Reference paragraph 1(b)(i) of my summary xor ICtn
October. The Officer Commanding Bushire garrison, Sargurd
Buzurg Ummid, telegraphed to Shiraz complaining of the Bushire
climate and re cuesting permission to return charge of tne
office to Bargurd Nuri. This was refused, and euri was o
> li<?ed to leave for Shiraz.. His departure is of definite _
value * in the interests of clearing up tribal affairs in wnich
he has frequently interfered, invariably to his own and trie
Khans‘ profit, and to the detriment of the Persian Government.
III. 2 QliHJ]iICATI 0 NS.
(a) Wi feles s.
Telegraphic, wireless and radio communication with
Tehran was cut off‘from 28th November. Of the various rumour,
spread in the town, that of a coup d'etat was the most
popular, unt-1 Ankara radio stated that the conference of
Allied leaders was being held there.
(b) Air.
A Boston Plane of the American Air Force, which_
was being ferried from Cairo to Abadan, overshot its objective
and crashed near Asalu (150 miles south of Bushire). The
pilot was killed, but the navigator escaped by parachute.
Receiving assistance and hospitality from all the shaikhs of
the Banadir-i-Galas area, whose relations with us have now for
some time been very friendly, he made his way to Dayyir, where^
the disarmament column recently landed there bp H.M.b. bLABELLH
radioed to Ghiraz for a Persian Army aeroplane. In this he
arrived safely at Bushire.
(It is remarkable that, after overflying its
objective bv some 300 miles, the plane should have crashed
within a few miles of an emergency landing ground (One was
constructed at Asalu in the course of last summer). It
appears that the pilot had no maps of the area^south of Abadan,
and relied on the directional beam to get him in).
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