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Razral busied himself as a negotiator} but when the military

began to show signs of taking action, ho withdrew to the Buluk.
During the latter part of the year, his position here was
disturbed by the arrival back from his family's exile in Tabriz
of Shaikh Mohammed Chahkutahi, a son of the Hussein Chahkutahi
who opposed the British in the last war. He had come back

with the permission of the "tribal grievances" commission, to
try to regain his father's former lands, which included the
Buluk. At the end of the year, however, he had made no progress

towards his objective.
(e) The Shlbkuh. News from this area has been scanty, in
default of a representative in Lingah and the difficulty of
H.M,Consul getting away from Bushire on tour, Gendarmerie

posts exist in very few ports, and the real power is wielded by
the "Zabits", who are the leading members of the A1 Hamadi, A1
JGS^pbaidll and tha A1 All families.
There has been

continual insecurity in the hinterland of this coast, the leading
trouble makers being Shaikh Mohammed Lavari and Abdullah bu
Hindi al Harami, (who was a mercenary of the Shaikh of Qatar at
the time of the Zubareh incident with Bahrain).

SECTION 6.

PUBLIC RELATIONS.
During the year efforts were made to secure the greatest
possible improvement in the field of public relations and to

remove from the minds of both officials and the public, the
legacy of suspicion and prejudice left by the Pahlavi regime.
Contact with Persians was fostered, and took the form of
entertainments given by the Hon'ble the Political Resident and

his Secretary, of opening to Persians such functions as fetes
organized in connection with the Red Cross, of social call*
exchanged with prominent Persians, of mutual acceptance of

invitations to dinner parties and the like, of certain Consulate
officials and other British subjects bec6ming members of local
/ clubs