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2S MAY 192
15 J U N 1925
No. 1 of 1925.—Bushire Residency Diary for the period 1st to 15th
January 1925.
1. Movements.
British officials. —The Political Resident
proceeded on tour on the 14th to Bahrain,
Lingah, Bassidu, Henjam, Bandar Abbas
and Muscat. He was accompanied by
Major M. A. Nicholson, I.M.S., Residency
Surgeon and Chief Quarantine Medical Offi
cer, Bushire.
Assistant Surgeon F. H. Asqit assumed
charge of the appointment of Quarantine
Medical Officer, Jask, from Sub-Assistant
Surgeon Sathe on the 14th.
Persian officials .—Mirza Ahmad Khan
has been appointed Deputy Governor of
Khuzistan.
Yawar Hisam Humayun has been appoint
ed Deputy Governor of Ahwaz, Yawar
Qasim Khan and Naib Nasrullah Khan,
Deputy Governors of Muhammerah and
Abadan, respectively.
The head of the Adliyeh Department at
Shushtar has been instructed by the Ministry
of Justice to make Ahwaz his headquarters
and to organize Courts of Justice in all the
towns of Khuzistan.
Non-officials. —Reference paragraph 241
of 1924.
Herr Wassmuss has been transporting
some of his agricultural machinery to
Ahmadi and Chigadak.
Reference paragraph 245 of 1924.
Theodor Schuler returned to Bushire on
the 7th. He was not allowed by the police
authorities in Bombay to land there as his
passport did not bear a transit visa for
India.
Mr. G. A. Hunt, of the British American
Tobacco Syndicate, who is touring the Per
sian Gulf on business, landed at Bandar
Abbas on the 8th.
2. Health, Persian Ports.
The health of the Persian Ports has been
good.
3. Persian Navy.
Reference paragraph 247 of 1924.
The Persian gunboat “ Pehlevi arrived
at Bushire on the 2nd and is still in port.
4. Opium.
S. S. “ Kashima Maru,”' from Wakamatsu,.
Japan, arrived at Bushire on the 9th, to
load opium.
Bushire ;
The 31st January 1925.
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50 cases of opium for Hamburg (tranship
ment at Bombay), were shipped on the 9th
in the British India Steam Navigation
Company’s steamship “ Bankura ” by Haji
Sayid Muhammad Reza Kazeruni and Sons
of Bushire.
5. Ahwaz.
Bakhtiari .—Naib Sarhang Sirdar Bahadur
has been appointed Military Governor of
Ram Hormuz. As he is the brother of
Sirdar Asad his appointment has done much
towards reassuring the Bakhtiari Khans
and tribesmen.
At the request of His Majesty’s Consul for
Khuzistan (Arabistan), written guarantees
in respect of the Arabistan properties of the
Bakhtiari Khans have been given by the
Prime Minister to Sirdar Zaffar, Murteza
Quli Khan and Shahab-us-Sultaneh.
6. Pusht-i-Kuh.
Troops from Kermanshah are reported
to have occupied the winter quarters of the
Wali of Pusht-i-Kuh, who has taken refuge
in Iraq. Regular troops have replaced
the tafangchis hitherto supplied by the
Wali to the Anglo-Persian Oil Company at
Dehluran.
7. Muhammerah.
At a meeting attended by priests, mer
chants and notables of Muhammerah on
the 12th it was urged by Agha Shaikh Ali,
Mujtahid, that the new Governor should
be asked to inform the central authorities
that Qawam-ud-Dowleh, the present De
puty to the Majlis for Khuzistan, had been
elected through the influence of the Shaikh
of Muhammerah irrespective of the wishes
of the people. It was recommended that
another representative should be elected
in his place-
8- Bushire-Shiraz Road..
Heavy fails of rain and snow have ren
dered the road impassable for wheeled traffic
at several places.
9.. Mekran.
A collision took place about the 8th at
Kuhistak between Persian soldiers and the
son and followers of Mir Barkat, as a result
of which one soldier was killed and four
captured. The captured men were subse
quently released. Mir Barkat is reported
to be enquiring into the matter with a view
to settling it as quickly as possible.
F. B. PRIDEAUX, Lt.-Col,
Political Resident in the Persian Gulf..
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