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in the event a rescue *.7.1 s effected by an armed band,'and
cost Jarivan Plshdad. of the Gendarmerie, his life. Since
Jnrwan Shndrawan left, the post has been held by Snrv/an
i'uqarrab, who has shown considerable zeal in his attempts
to "rid the Daiyir area of its notable brigand, Ali Ismail.
(v) The removal of 3argurd ( Major) Nuri, Officer
Commanding the Sushlre rarrison, was finally secured by
representations to theG.O.C., Persian forces in Shiraz.
’iis interferences in tribal matters had invariably been
to his own, and the Phans* profit and to the detriment of
the authority of the central Government, ilis successor,
Sarrurd 3uzur~ Unm'id, is, apart from a relationship to
the .-.ra Mian, most desirably nondescript.

(vi) After continuous vicissitudes, in the course
of -which the office changed hands thirteen tines in the
course of a year, Acjai Shaulu was appointed as Director of
the Supply Department in the late summer. Althourh no
more devoid of self-interest than his predecessors, he is
above then in intelligence, and seems to be as satisfactory
an incumbent as the post is lihely to have.

'c) Allied.
V/ith the closinr of Sushire as a terminal
port for lease-lend aid to liussia, both the ^werican and
Russian military detachments left the area.
SUCTION II.

LOCAL
(a) Dupin'" the first half of the year, the United
Kivdori' Corwercial Corporation continued to run a vehicle
assembly unit, which despatched lorries and lease/lend
<oods to husjia. * It was closed in .-.ufust, and had
curin'* its 1:” months* existence assembled rue forwarded
about 4,000 lorries, ana 15,000 tons of carr'o in 7 months.
All the Persian officials co-operated with the scheme so
far as their own equipment permitted, and although there
was an irritatin'5, trichle of rilferare, the problem never
reached, even in proportion, the dimensions it has assumed
in the Jhatt al Arab norts. It was, in fact practically
established that the pilferage which affected the assembly
of vehicles, tool: place in the U.-'i.'J.C. *s own assembly yard.
Althourh virtually no handlinr facilities
were provided from outside ornar.isations, and despite the
stepmotherly' attitude of the Jritish Military authorities,
the fullest use was made of local resources and in the last
fortnight of June the port reached an average discharging
rate of 350 tons per day.
There was continued insecurity on the
Shiraz road during the year; but banditries were confined
to civil lorries, and never affected the usefulness of the.
route for lease/lend purposes.

(b) Duriny the year still more of the Persian
Government departments, which had been subordinated to Shiraz
by the reorranization of 1937, returned to the direct
supervision of the capital^ and at the end of the year, only
the Covernorate and the Gendarmerie remained under Shiraz,
and action was be ins initiated by 3ushire*s newly elected
deputies in the Majlis to rectify this. The inefficiency
caused by the abolition of the old Gulf Ports Governorate
can be well imagined from the fact that in the border areas
of Linyah and Bandar Dilam, Government departments are