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was restored* The CuBtoma Inspootors at most of the Tangiaton
and Bashti porta left hurriedly for Buohire by oea« In November
Captain Uugarrab, oomcanding the road guards In the Daahti area

was besieged at Aiftlu by the followers of All Ismail, the Daahti
rebel, but managed to esoape# The road guards who were with him
were disarmed and sent bade to Bushire#
Security over the whole of the district deteriorated

seriously during the laat three months of the year# Robberies
were reported daily and wild rumours that the whole structure

of government had collapsed gave great encouragement to those
responsible# During theiperiod the road guards were roughly
handled, many being killed or wounded# Telephone and telegraph
wires were cut and for a short period communication between

Buahire and Shiraz was dosed#
News of the Allied advance into Iran was received with
unexpected calm in Bushire, though it was confidently expected,

and in some quarters even hoped, that it would be followed by an
early landing by the British# when a ehort time afterwards^, the
news of the abdication of the Shah was received and rumours

beoame current that all monopolies were to be abolished, it was
generally expeoted that a new era of prosperity for Buahire was
about to begin# Thie optimism was^however^ short lived# British

troops did not arrive, prices rose, wheat became scarce and the
corruption of local officials, if arything, increased, in spits

of the faot that in most oases their salaries had been doubled#
To this was added the absence of rain and the resultant restrict
tlon of wheat sowings to a email fraotion of their normal#

8K0TI0N 7*
The following numbers of slaves were manualttsd duriug
ths year t#

Bahrain Agenoy • •• Nil,
Gharjah Agenoy ♦ t • 14.
Uusoat Agenoy 27
4* i

6terotaxy to thf Political Rioidont
in the Persian Gulf#