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exercised increasing influence. Kerman atlll lacks a p u.b*.lo
rail#. but large numbers of people congregate in the
Roort to hear the news. The daily news bulletin issued by the
Consulate has a wide olroulatlen end is posted on public notite
boards in tho Town.
Propaganda material was received ani distributed in large
Quantities. In addition to the flourishing Reading in her-
-raan there ore now 22 other Reeding Rooms and Agencies in the
Consulate area, A feature of the year has been the increase in
sales of publicity material.

The local cinema has shewn British neY/sreels throughout
the year, though its feature films have been Russian. It ie
apparently impossible to send English or American feature films
to outlying areas - the only one received v/as "Desert Victory".
A cinema van arrived early in the year and h*s ehor/n nev/e-
-reels and 'shorts1 to enthusiastic audiences, most of whom have
never seen a cinema before. In one re note village when the *p-
-orator came out to begin the performance he found the audience
sitting v/ith their backs to the screen and their feces toY'ards
the machine, and on several occasions the audience fled when
tanks ani aeroplanes moved across the screen tov/ards them.

B.ygaa.

1. Consulate.
H.yfa Consul, Kerman continued to hold the additionr.1
charge throughout the year. H.U's Consul visited ^ezd in January,
Y*roh, April, *^?.y, October and November.
A small residential quarter v/as built during the year
at the expense of the owner next to the Consulate grounds, and
is being used by the *lead Clerk as his private residence.

2. Visiters. eJU
Numerous visitors passlft-r through Yczl, mostly on their
way between Tehran and India. They Included 23 British subjects,
7 Americans, 8 Greeks, 2 Yugoslavs, 3 Czechs, 5 °v;iss and 7 of
other nationalities. Hany of the:pritieh and Allied subjects were
permit ted to stay at the Consulate.
3. British Interests^
Trade. Trade with India was slack oy/ing to export restriet-
-ions, but towards the end of the year enquiries were being made
ky Yezd merchants with a view to early resumption of trade rela-
-tions after the war. ^any Yezdis obtained visas for India for
trade purposes.

hi . "Iranian Oil Company. Aqai Piroz continue* to be in
•i charge of the Anglo-Iranian On tzpwt Company depot/ During the
|>taw^a^®r owing to transport difficulties there was an acute short-
!t i ollm£or the factfrle8 ani •* kerosine oil for
household use. The position improved by the end of the year.

Chur oh MljLslo_n»ry Society. The Reverand H.C .Gurney remained
Pmor-in-ohfl^e, H* on* hia wife end Hiss Aidin the looal school
-niatres* gave valuable help in running the poor and medioal re-
Th* r fcr5aSload "lth the holP #f the An*l#-Iraniaa Relief Fund.
® u.n.s.Hospital has not been rebuilt sinoo the flood of 1941.
, *£Qrt *roa vl8lt® by the Russian Consul in Isfahan
*aa* lGoTjroota v,cre not represented in Yead. On tho other
'*** hn* Wn a. MH.in amount of Soviet propagenda dia-