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continued to be issued, ])opor supplies only setting the
limit for the number issued, Not only war news but items
of interest to Persians broadcast from Radio Tehran are
included.
The system of distribution of publicity matter

by sale through agents, inaugurated at the close of 1943
to replace free distribution, was maintained, Publicity
matter, with the exception of the last two months of the
year, continued to be received regularly from Tehran and

Delhi. Considering the comparative poverty of the area,
sales of periodicals have been well maintained despite the
fact that the periodicals are available for perusal in the
Reading Rooms also.
The cinema van centred on Shiraz was available

in Bushire for the early months of the year and again
from the middle of November. Its popularity in a town
and area without a cinema is great and it provides a
most fruitful instrument of propaganda, Towards the

end of the year, Public Relations Bureau, Tehran, was
completing arrangements for the sending of a 56 mm.
projector to Bushire. This will remain as a permanent
projector when the cinema van leaves for Shiraz and will

of particular advantage in showing educational films to
Bushire school children.
(b) The work of the Anglo Iranian Relief and
Reconstruction Fund Committee continued unabated, though

relief, in accordance with the policy of H.M. Embassy,
was financed increasingly, and by the end of the year,
entirely, from local contributions.
The major relief activity continued to be the

maintenance of the caravanserai for the poor at Shikari
i
whebe food and shelter is provided free for a number of