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have provided much information about the town and hinterland
of Lingah about which little was known after the closure
of the Consular Agency in 1920.
The Consular Agent has maintained friendly contact
with local officials and also by means of social occasions

and his supervision of the Reading Room, with several-
members of the public.
SECTION V
Public Relations.
(a) Relations with Persians continued.most

friendly, alike in the official and social spheres.
Though the year saw great changes in the war situation
v/hich brought practically everyone to believe in an early
and complete Allied victory, it is not out of place to
record the officials and citizens of Bushire, even at the

worst crises of the war, continued to maintain that well-
disposed and cooperative attitude which long standing and
friendly relations with this Consulate General seem to

have engendered.
Public relations activities remained centred on
the Bushire Reading Room and Club with its membership of

over 200 leading officials and citizens, Kore books v/ere
obtained for the library section in the course of the year.
When the cinema van was available a weekly cinema show on
Thursday nights was instituted at which refreshments were

provided, The Club certainly enjoys the best possible
tribute which can be paid to it. It is invariably to
be found full of members listening to the radio, playing
cards or takht-i-nard, reading the books, newspapers, of

magazines, drinking tea, meeting friends, or even perhaps
merely using the telephone.
Reading Rooms continued to be maintained at
Lingah and Borazjun. The daily cyclostyled news bulletin

in Persian, which was inaugurated in the spring of 1942,