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It only remains to odd that tho year was on# 0f the severest
fa ml no on record.
At tho olooa of ' 194a ? groat excitement was oauaod

by an R.A.Y. roport of light • ha Ting boon toon signalling towards
tho sea at Jank. Tho Senior naval officer wished this to bo
examined immediately In view of the possible danger to convoys,
and I paid a visit inootfiito to the scene ty air with Hr•Rogers
who later returned to make a fuller Investigation. His rsseArches,

together with those of certain other agente who were despatched
from different directions, eventually disclosed that the suspicious
circumstance a were susceptible of imocent explanations, Tho

suspicious flickering of the lighthouse was found to be almost
certainly due to the person In charge stealing the kerosene.
The Yerey lights which had been seen eventually turned out to
have been fired by R.A.F. personnel at a byataa. The mysterious

signalling which had been seen inshore was discovered to bo the
mutual rocotuition signals given each other with torches by tho
night patrols of the Persian Gendarmerie so that they might evade

contact with the local Baluchis of thorn they moved in considerable
dread. As a result of this and as part of a general tightening
up a complete coast-watching system was put into fores whloh' very
soon produced useful fruit in the best capture of pirates of
vftxlch vo have record for mazy years, This is recounted in tho

next paragraph.
In April, acting on a report from H.V. Consul, Bandar
Abbas, a British naval patrol vessel captured an armed dhow

lfaioh had been committing piracies off the Jask coast under the
notorious Persian Baluchi pirates Husain bin vurad and his brother.
The oaptured-,vessel together with lte orew end their weapons were
mode over to the Persian authorities, ^rtxo ssntsnosd the ringleader

to imprisonment for life and his followers to varying tens of
imprisonment* While seme of ths pirates died of starvation in \
prison before the trial took plooo. Tho capture woo givoa

publicity in tho Portion and Indian Proto and over tho AU-lndla,
/Tehran