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Mr. E. E. Gunter, Director, Persian
Gulf Section, Indo-Euiopean Telegraph
Department, visited Bushire in the course
of his annual tour of inspection on the 3rd
and the 13th to 15th March.
On the 31st March, Mr. George Gregg
^ Fuller, Vice-Consul for the United States of
America arrived at Bushire from Jerusalem.
Local Officials .—Early in the month the
G )vernor received a circular telegram
addressed by the Ministry of the Interior to
all Governors and Governors General con
veying an intimation that with effect from
the 1st Hamal {i.e., 20th March) no Governor
General or Governor in any province
would be recognized or receive any salary.
This was taken to mean that Military
Governors would be appointed throughout
Persia on Nauroz, but later on the Governor
received a telegram from Tehran ordering
him to continue in office temporarily.
Pro-Republican Movement .—The circular
telegram alluded to in the preceding para
graph soon became public and was followed
by a carefully organized propaganda on the
part of the military against the Shah and in
favour of a republic. Telegrams asking for
co-operation in bringing about the over
throw of the present regime were received
from Mullahs and journalists in Tehran and
Shiraz, but the general public in Bushire
seemed entirely uninterested and neither
these appeals nor the news of the set back to
the republican movement in Tehran on
Nauroz stirred them from their apathy.
French Air Mission .—The Second Per
sian Army aeroplane left for Shiraz on the
13th instant.
Owing to the non-receipt of their wages
for two months the French members of the
Mission struck work on the 23rd February,
but were persuaded by the French Consul to
resume work after a few days.
They express considerable dissatisfaction
with the machines and contend that the
Persians deputed to buy them cheated their
government by buying old war machines
which had been reconditioned, instead of
new ones.
Kerman.
(3rd February to 3rd March).
Movements.—lA.-Oo\. L. B. H. Haworth,
on transfer to Meshed, handed over charge
of the Consulate to the Extra Assistant
liesident, Khan Bahadur Abdul Alim, on
the afternoon of the 22nd February and left
for Duzdap en route for Meshed on 1st
March.
Major T. C. W. Fowle arrived from
Baluchistan and assumed charge as Acting
British Consul on the forenoon of the 27th
March.
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Elections .—All ul Mulk has been elected
by Sirjan and Sirdar Sipah, the Prime
Minister, for Jiruft; as the election of the
Prime Minister is merely complimentary, it
actually means the election of Sardar
Nusret, the second candidate.
Roads .—Owing to Baluch raids on the
Nehbid-Tahrud section of the Kerman-
Bam road, the Amnieh have recently
ordered caravans to travel to Bam via
Rayin to which route guards have also
been transferred ; a large caravan, however,
was recently plundered on this route at
Kam Kalagh.
In spite of the protests of His Majesty’s
Consul the contract for the post on the
Duzdap Road has been restored to Mehrab
Khan, from whom it was removed owing to
robberies by the man himself.
A company of Indian-Yezd Parsis which
had been running a limited motor service
from Yezd to Duzdap has expanded its
capital to two lakhs and His Majesty’s
Consul has persuaded the man in charge to
use Crossley cars instead of Fiats. The
capital has mainly been supplied by Yezdis
settled in Bombay.
Sanitary. —Small-pox, which was pre
valent in epidemic form, has abated and no
fresh cases have been reported.
Foreigners. Mr. Baumann, a Swiss
resident engaged in farming, has been
accidentally killed by the collapse of a
roof.
Travellers .—Three Indian Parsees Lieute
nant N. N. Karkaria, Ratanshah R.
Bastawala and Manuchahr Rustam Darab
have arrived from Yezd and are studying
the possibility of engineering and irriga
tion schemes to promote Parsi interests in
Persia.
Russian Consulate .—The Russian Consul
has recently been taking an active interest
in the Bahai community of Kerman. He
is also in frequent communication with
Haji Mirza Mohammed Reza, the chief
Mujtahid of the Town, and Sarkar Agha,
the Sheikh priest.
The Consul is giving out that the Russian
Legation in Tehran has offered a sum of
Tomans 150,000 for certain Crown jewels
put to auction by the Persian Government
—the proceeds to be utilized for construc
ting railways in Persia. He is also reported
to have remarked that the republican j
movement in Tehran is being instigated by j
the British.
Persian Baluchistan. Diwan Begi, now
on his way back to Kerman from Baluchis
tan, has telegraphed to the Governor-
General that Dost Mohamed has no inten
tion of being recalitrant, and has offeied
in future to pay revenue at Tomans 19,000