مجموعة ٥/٣٠(١) "يوميّات الخليج الفارسي: المقيمية البريطانية في بوشهر (الفارسية) يناير ١٩٤١" [و‎‎٣‎٣‎٢] (٩٣٨/٦٦٤)

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VI. LOCUSTS.
(a) The Agriculture Department, Shiraz, have com
pleted a campaign against locusts in a district lying
between Tang-i-Ham and Shabankareh to the east of Bushire.
Their officials reported that swarms of the pest exist
between Kazerun and Konartakhteh: and that some swarms
had been observed in Firuzabad district and others had
gone from Behbehan towards Shiraz. These swarms are said
to be under observation.
(b) The Commission of 12 Bussian officials operating
against locusts in the area of Bandar BtLlum were reported
to have finished their work and to have returned to
Khuzistan by plane.
VII. TRIBAL AND POLITICAL.
( a ) I&shti. (i) During the period under report the
Persian Groverament troops at Khormuj, commanded by Sargurd
Arab Shaibani, with the assistance of Sargurd Yusuf
Isfandiari of the Amnieh, advanced upon the Dashti rebels
centred on Kaki, and have driven them to the hills with
hardly any opposition. The force had been raised to about
700, with auxiliary riflemen, lorries and two tanks. After
capturing Kaki, the force advanced to Ab-Dan. A small
force was sent round to Kangan by sea, acecmpanied by
Sheikh Suleiman of the A1 Hamadi tribe (who has apparently
succeeded in bribing his way to the Bakshdarship of Kangan)
with the object of taking the rebels in the rear, and in
particula r of seizing the stronghold of the chief rebel,
Ali Ismail, at Daiyir. {
(ii) At the close of the period under
report, it seems that resistance has ceased, and several
of the Dashti leaders are negotiating for terms of surren
der. These include Khalu Hussain and his brother, Bahmiar,
of Bardeh Khan. Ali Ismail and Haidar Maidar, with some
minor leaders, are refusing to come to terms. Ali Ismail
appears to have left his men at Daiyir, and himself fled
to Callehzani, 12 miles north of Bandar Daiyir.
(iii) 5t-is-pep«?ted The opportunist Rais
Ghulam Bazmi, who has figured in previous reports, is now
reported to be negotiating between the G-overnment force and
the temporarily discomfited Dashti leaders.
(iv) It is reported that the Government
troops were welcomed by most of the population of Kaki, who
had suffered from the depredations of the rebels, notably
the female Khan of Kaki, Mulki Khan, who had lost all her
stocks of wheat and barley. The price of dates in Dashti
is reported to have risen to Bials 20 (from an ordinary
price of about 4) a maund (8 lb.), and destitution is rife.
The position has been reported direct to Tehran by Mirza
Ahmed of Daiyir (son of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company agent '
there, whose premises were looted by the Dashtis last year),
to the great annoyance of the Bushire Economic Department,
who are seeking for their own ends to minimise the needs of jff!
Bus hire’s dependent areas.
(b) The Down Gulf Ports.
(i) A pleasant story comes from Junah and Ishkenan,
in the hinterla nd of Lingah. A ruffian named Mukhtar bin
Haji Ibrahim had gone to Junah, where he disarmed the
Amnieh post, and was subsequently dislodged by Government
troops, in his absence, his father Haji Ibrahim Kharrehi
bribed a certain Abdur Bahim to kill Zari Ahmed, the Chief