مجموعة ٥/٣٠(١) "يوميّات الخليج الفارسي: المقيمية البريطانية في بوشهر (الفارسية) يناير ١٩٤١" [و‎‎٣‎١‎٣] (٩٣٨/٦٢٦)

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Diary for the British residency
Bushire^ for the period 16th
and Consulate-General,
to 3ist July,1942.
I.
Movements .
(a) British officials .
(l) Captain J.B.Hov/es, Secretary to the Political
Resident, returned from Shiraz on the 25th July.
(2) Mr. H.J.Sinclair, Additional Vice Consul, Bushire,
left for Kazerun and Shiraz on 27th July.
(3) The Hobble Lieut.-Colonel J.R.Hay, CIS., Political
Resident in the Persian Gulf and H II. * s Consul-General,
Bushire, returned from tour on 29th July by service
aircraft from Bahrain.
(4) Captain Cannon, Garrison Engineer, left for Shiraz
on the 27th July.
(b) Allied officials .
Captain Peragoff and Nina Mikhailovna have left.
Comrade Azaroff has relieved Comrade Shapoff.
(c) Persian officials .
(1) On the 21st July Dr, Earned ^iadat the Chief quarantine
Medical Officer, Bushire, set out for Borazjan and
Shahbankareh on inspection duty and returned to Bushin
on the 26th.
(2) Captain Karimlu, Recruiting Officer, Bushire, proceed
ed to Kazerun on short visit on the 23rd July and came
back to headquarteis on the 26th.
II. shipping and Commercial .
(a) 5 ships called at Bushire during the period under report.
The bulk of the imports consisted of lorries and war
supplies; other imports comprised l$0 tons of piece-goods,
250 tons of tea and 160 tons of general cargo. Exports
consisted of 200 cases of opium.
(b) The average price of sugar was Rials 1750 per bag (lOO
kilos.). Approximate stocks are 5,600 tons in the
Customs, and 150 tons with merchants.
The market price of tea at the close of the fortnight
y/as Rials 54 per packet (500 grammes). Merchants nave
received information that the export of tea xrom India
has been prohibited* This has caused consideiaole loeax
anxiety, as many of them hold stocks of tea in Ii-tdia
awaiting shipment.
III.
152.
Commu ni cations ( Land).
Reports continue to be received of the exactions levied
from travellers on the Shiraz road by the '’chiriks' 1
(riflemen) commanded by Shuja Nizam.
a leading Bushire merchant was recently robbed of his
coat containing some cash, some documents and a watch
and chain ?;hile asleep by the roadside at Konar Takhteh.
It is reported that the Amnieh (road-guards) have-
recovered his documents for him; but they do not stem tc
' have been so successful (from the point of view of tnc
merchant ) with regard to the money and the watch.
Tribal and Political. / 150 .
IV.