مجموعة ٥/٣٠(١) "يوميّات الخليج الفارسي: المقيمية البريطانية في بوشهر (الفارسية) يناير ١٩٤١" [و‎‎٢‎٦‎١] (٩٣٨/٥٢٢)

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and attempted a raid on oaratul village; but in txi_
they were not successful.
An armed man was attacked by six thieves near iuiaviz
and shot down. He had 500 tomans in money and^a horse
which were taken av/ay by the thieves, as also his rifle.
A caravan from Garpur of Tang istan bound xor Bushire
was attacked on the Mashileh by thieves, 10 of whom were
armed with rifles and five with sticks. ihey robbed
the caravan of goods worth 1000 tomans.
IV. WAR SUP PI) IBS
(i) The s.s. William
(ii) 475 trucks were
and 140 despatched,
for lack of drivers.
King arrived on
March 3rd.
assembled duri.n • the fortnight,
750 assembled c ’ucks are on hand
Cargo despatcned totalled
637 tons; and 7000 tons are on hand.
V. TRIBAL
AND POLITICAL
(a) Sargurd Nuri, officer commandinf the Bushire garrison,
■'vas commissioned b3 r the C overnor general to make a to ir
of Dashti and Tan .istan with a view to the disarmament
of the local Khans. I e left for Ahram on the 3rd Marcn
19T3; and his first step was to offer a medal to
Rais Ali Chahpiri (the corrupt and contumacious ma knur
of Tan istan) on behalf of the Persian G-overnment his
services’ Chahriri (ver T,r truthfully) told Nuri that he
had not done any particular service to the x^ersian
Government; and would obey it in the same manner as
other chiefs do - a pregnant phrase. phile at ^ xvhurmn j
(in Dashti) Nuri rave medals among others to Rais Ghrlam
Razmi - his uncle Ali Razmi and uarab jThan. we tnen
asked the chiefs to surrender their arms. oome repi -sc.
that they ’ould do so, some with the pretext that they
would surrender as soon as other chiefs came forward;
and some enquired when and to whom tne arms shou__d be
surrend.ered. (Although these chiexs may surrenc.er
the Government rifles previously c.istributed ^ to txiem,
they have stocks of concealed arms and ammunition.
The minor chiefs of Tanristan repeatedly recuest per
mission/ to go and remove Chahpiri. One of the x.ed^ihudas
of Tang istan, da’far Ambaraki, unites tnat wjien the
Officer Commanding Gendarmerie VT as at Ambarak recently,
he promised that he would take ste'^s to remove him in
a week’s time: that he (Ja’far) introduced to hi-
the chiefs of Tang istan who were prepared ’:o help,
nothing has been heard from the Ofiicer commanding
Gendarmerie since he returned to Busnire.)
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XUt Uw ’iti.
ili, Kedkhuda of holol, surrounded Dilbar
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20 men in order to evict Chahpiri’s men alre^cy
stationed there. Chahpiri's son with few tufangcxis
went to Dilbar t© help the r-arrison. It is believed
tv-at some shots were exchanged between the two siaes,
but no casualties were incurred. Hussain Rustam,
the ex-Kedkhuda, has repotted that Jargurd Nuri went ^
to Dilbar with Rais All Chahpiri; ^while^Ghulam^Razmi,
Ramju and other chiefs joined Husain Aalic Hais All
Razmi, Kedkhuda of idiormuj (mentioned above) has come
in to Bushire, and visited the Resident s oecretary.
Ie reported that Barfurd Nun took him to Dilbar in^
connection T vitl the recent trouble and tnat he and xluri
managed to make peace be tween the ^ ? o parties. Lu^ain
Aali, Namju and the other chiefs have returned to their
homes; and the tufangchis of Chahpiri have evacuated
Dilba and returned to .Hiram. At the moment there is
no Keakhuda at Dilbar. . . .
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