مجموعة ٩/٣٠(٢) "تقارير إدارية عن الخليج الفارسي - ١٩٤٥ -" [و‎‎٢‎١‎٧] (١١٤٨/٤٣٣)

It only remains to add that the year was one of the severest
famine on record*
At the close of 194£ great excitement was caused
by an R.A.F* report of lights having been seen signalling towards
the sea at Jaak. 'jChe Senior naval officer wished this to be
examined immediately in view of the possible danger to convoys,
and I pa id a visit incognito to the scene by air with Hr •Rogers
who later returned to make a fuller investigation* His researches,
together with those of certain other agents who were despatched
from different directions, eventually disclosed that the auspicious
circumstances were susceptible of innocent explanations* The
suspicious flickering of the lighthouse was found to be almost
certainly due to the person in charge stealing the kerosene*
The Vferey lights which had been seen eventually turned out to
have been fired by R # A*P* personnel at a hyaina. The mysterious f
signalling which had been seen inshore was discovered to be the
mutual recogiition signals given each other with torches by the
night patrols of the Persian Gendarmerie so that they might evade
contact with the local Baluchis of idiom they moved in considerable
dread. as a result of this and as part of a general tightening
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up a complete coast-watching system was put into force which very
soon produced useful fruit in the best capture of pirates of
which we have record for many years. Thie is recounted in the
next paragraph*
In April, acting on a report from H*M*Consul, Bandar
Abbas, a British naval patrol vessel captured an armed dhow
which had beon committing piracies off the Jask coast under the
notorious Persian Baluchi pirates Husain bin Murad and his brother.
The captured vessel together with its crew and their weapons were
made over to the Persian authorities, who e entenced the ringleader
to imprisomuent for life and his followers to varying terms of
imprisonment, while some of the pirates died of starvation in
prison before the trial took place* The capture was given
publicity in the Persian and Indian press and over the All-India,
/ Tehran