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Military.
Yawar Ali Asghar Khan, tha Mili
tary Commander in Bulshire, is pressing
'for the introduction of martial law in
Bushire.
Ahmad Khan Angali escaped from
Borazjan on the 7th: the Officer Com
manding Troops has decided to take no
steps to recapture him. Shaikh Muham-
mad, son of the late Shaikh Hussain of
Chakutah, has been released.
200 packages of motor lorries and
machinery for the Persian army were
landed from S. S. “ Niedenfels ,
which arrived at Bushire on the 11th.
‘ A German officer, Herr Brau, arrived
at Bushire from Tehran on the 14th.
He is said to be the manager of a work
shop in Tehran belonging to the Per
sian Government. He was followed on
the 21st by Herr Hertzmann, also a
German, said to be Munitions Adviser to
the Ministry of War. Herr Hertzmann
put up with Herr Brau for a few days
and started back for Tehran on the 25th.
German Activities.
The Hansa Line.
S. S. “Niedenfelis ” arrived at Bu
shire on the 11th With military stores
and 1,147 cases of motor-car accessories,
machinery and drugs for Messrs.
Wonckhaus and Company of Tehran.
Russian Activities.
The Governor of the Gulf Ports
informed His Majesty’s Consul-General
early in the month that the Russian Vice-
Consul at Ahwaz was occupying the
telegraph line with a string of cypher
telegrams to Tehran.
The British Military Attache at
Tehran telegraphed early in the month
that M. Valedin, Secretary to the Rus-
j sian Legation at Tehran, had left for
1 Bushire with a load of Soviet literature,
| which was probably destined for India.
* He had not arrived in Bushire by the end
of the month.
British Interests,
Two British subjects, Messrs. M. B M
Hicks, of Ziegler and Company, Shiraz,
and G. R. Cox, motor-mechanic, left
Bushire for Shiraz on October 26th.
Their car broke down near Churun, a
village 40 miles south of Kazerun, and
Mr. Cox went to the village to obtain
assistance. He was obstructed bv
Bahman Khan, local Chief of Road
Guards; a quarrel ensued and Mr. Cox
struck the man, who died after an hoar
and a half. Messrs. Cox and Hicks
were detained by the road guards until
they heard of Bahman Khan’s death
when one of them shot Mr. Cox dead at
a range of two yards, and all the guards
decamped.
The news reached Bushire on the
morning of the 2/th and Major
Nicholson, I.M.S., Residency Surgeon,
who was accompanied by Mr i Clarke, of
Messrs. Ziegler and Company, Bushir^.
and a Persian Naib, proceeded to the
pcene and performed autopsies on the
bodies Yawar Ali Ashgar Khan,
Commanding the Troops in Bushire,
also proceeded as far as Borazjan.
His Majesty’s Consul, Shiraz, motored
down to Churun accompanied by a Per
sian Officer, Yawar Qasim Khan, and
collected evidence regarding the in
cident.
Mr. Cox was buTied at Konar Takhteh
on the 28th. The matter has been taken
up by His Majesty’s Legation.
S. S. “ Monadnock ”.
The claims of Persians against S. S*
“ Monadnock ” (see last month’s Sum
mary) were settled on the 26th, as
follows:—
Rs. 400 to the family of the beggar
who died.
Rs. 200 for distribution among
coolies who received bruises.
Opium.
It is reported that the Customs Autho
rities at Bushire have requested the
Central Government to impose a higher
duty on Indian opium landed at Bushire
for transhipment. Actually, Indian
opium is imported into Bushire for
adulteration of the local product.
S. S. “ Promethean ”, a vessel sailing
under the Chinese Flag, with Norwegian
officers and a Chinese crew, arrived at
Bushire on the 15th, from Hong Kong,
to carry a consignment of opium for her
local Agents, Haji Seyed Mohamed
Kazeruni and Sons of Bushire. She is
still in harbour.
Land Revenue.
The Central Government have in
creased the land tax by 35 per cent.
Haidar Khan of Hayat Daud and Ahmad