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Health, Persian Ports.
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Owing to rumours of the preval
ence of small-pox on Kishm Island the
Quarantine Medical Officer, Bandar
Abbas, visited Dargahan, a small port
on that island, and vaccinated about 37o
persons.
Constitution.
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The accession of Beza Khan
PahTavi was celebrated by Persian officials
in all towns in South Persia.
Russian interests.
It is rumoured locally that
M. Walden’s visit to Bushire is connected
with a proposal to open (1) a branch
of a Russian bank in Bushire and (2) an
Agency for a Russian Steamship Company.
The latter, it is said, will be managed by
M. Konoff, a trader who carried on busi
ness in a small way for some years at
Bushire but who proceeded a few months
ago to Shiraz, whence he is expected to
return shortly. His Majesty’s Consul,
Shiraz, mentioned in paragraph 38 of his
Commercial Diary No. 8, for the month
of August 1925, that M. Konoff had
received his passport as a Lithuanian
subject.
M. Walden is also reported to be greatly
interested in the establishment of a new
Russian (or Persian Military ?) Wireless
Station at Bushire.
Bushire-Shiraz Road.
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M. Argenti, Italian road engineer
employed by the Persian Government, has
arrived at Bushire from Shiraz, it is
reported, with a credit of Tomans 24,000
to repair the road from Bushire to Rudak
Pass. It is understood that across the
Mashailah he will use the embankment of
the former Bushire Railway.
Mirza Hasan Ali, Gulshan, who is in
Tehran at present, is reported to be
attempting to secure concessions for the
Bushire-Shiraz Road and the Khara°*
Peail lisheries, for which he made an
Lar attempt in May last..
Meteorological.
- Some six slight earthquake shot
veie felt at Bushire on the 18th and 19
Some sixty shocks are reported to have
been experienced at Ahram, and at
Khurmuj some landslides occurred and
indications of volcanic activity were
visible.
Bushire.
Bocal politics.
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•3M. A District Committee for the
better transaction of Government business
consisting of the Heads of all Government
Departments except the Officer Command
ing Troops and the Director of Customs,
has been formed in Bushire. The two
officials mentioned stated that they were
unable to join until the receipt of orders
from Tehran.
The Revenue Departments of Bushire
and Bandar Abbas have been placed under
Shiraz.
Condition of country.
B&2. It is rumoured that a band of
fifty Tangistanis, who had tried to enter
the peninsula of Bushire on the night of
the 11th, were scared off by a military
outpost. The Officer Commanding
Persian Troops complains that he lacks
sufficient men to inflict a salutary lesson
on these marauders.
Bandar Abbas.
British interests.
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2M. S.S. “ Serbistan ” loaded 3,000 tons
of red oxide from Hormuz Island on the
9th on account of Messrs. Haji Ali
Akbar and Sons of Manchester.
Communications.
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824. The road between Jahrum and
Shiraz is reported to have been completed
and the construction of a road between
and Bandar Abbas is contemplated.
Mekran.
Charhar Customs Subsidies to JDashtyari
Chiefs.
886. Following the cessation of the pay
ment of the above-mentioned subsidies,