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The “ College ”
about 70 pupils.
which receives both boarders and day boys now numbers
Kerman.
10. Nazim-ut-Tujjar has been released from the custody of the gendarmerie
by orders of the Minister of the Interior. He has stated his intention of leaving
Kerman.
11. One Shaikh Ali Naqi known as Shaikh Shirazi arrived in Rudbar from
Bandar Abbas with certain documents signed by various Ulemas, for the purpose
of preaching the jehad. He has been seized by the Governor-General and further
mischief stopped.
12. A caravan of Afshars going from Bam to Gudar Zamagh for ghee and
wool, etc,, was attacked and plundered by forty Baluchis.
Lingeh.
13. Herr Manicke, the local Manager of Wonckhaus and Company, wrote on
the 14th to the Deputy Governor informing him of the arrest and deportation of the
German Consul at Bushire by the British authorities, and asking him whether he
intended to protect the German subjects at Lingeh. The Deputy Governor
replied stating that the Persian Government being neutral, it was the duty of the
Deputy Governor to preserve peace in the district and to protect foreign and
local subjects.
14. The Customs House was invaded by the Deputy Governor’s armed
tufangchison the 7th, who pulled down the new flag staff which has been erected.
The Director closed the Customs House as a protest. The Customs House was
reopened on the morning of the 9th.
15. A jehad proclamation signed by an ’Alim of Kerbala was read out in the
coffee shop of Haji Abdullah Khaja before a crowded house. Some copies of the
proclamation were circulated in Lingeh and others were sent to the Oman coast and
Shibkuh ports for distribution.
It was later ascertained by the Residency Agent that the proclamation was
written in Lingeh and that the name of the ’Alim had been forged.
ARABIA.
Bahrain.
16. There were about 1,000 deaths from plague during the month. Foul
j Agency employes were attacked, three of whom recovered.
17. There is a considerable amount of unrest in Hassa and Katr; burglaries
are frequent in the latter place, and though the towns in Hassa are kept in
order by Bin Sand’s Amir, none of the caravan routes are safe.
18. Mr. Yusuf Shamun, the leading Christian merchant of Bahrain, was shot
dead and his wife wounded by burglars the early morning of the 24th March 1915.
This regrettable affair has had the effect of causing the Shaikh to undertake
the reform of the police system. No clue as to the identity of the murderers has
been obtained. They got away with about Rs. 8,000 worth of gold ornaments.
19. The prohibition of the export of wheat and flour from Karachi is causing
great hardship m Bahrain as no wheat is coming in from Persia.
Kuwait.
20. The SS. Seistan after leaving Kuwait grounded off Ras-al-Arz on the
night of the 1st. She was assisted by the steamships “ Raithwaite Hall ” and
Oporto and some 1,000 tons of her cargo having been discharged she was
floated on the 5th. She left for Bushire on the 7th.
Maskat.
21. On the second the hired transports “ Chilka, ” “ Colenso ” and “ Kelvin-
grove ” arrived at Maskat from Egypt. S.S. “ Chilka ” and “ Colenso ” proceeded