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During 1944 the tribal situation eased considerably
and such piquant situations arooo on Eaolr qaohqai proposing

to stand oq a Deputy for tho Bnjlia# ono factor in oteadylng
the triboa in ths South of Faro during ths winter wao ths
prteenos of a motorised battalion of the Trans-Jordan
Frontier Foroo on thoir flank, who tod boon despatched for

anti-locust work in tho Bandar Abba a area#
Thor a uoro growing Cigna of Russian interest and
penetration in tho South, and tha Tudeh Forty ccmo to notios
for the first tine in Buchlre0 ThQ decay of trade, which

van due to U«Z«S«0o controls, took of chipping and diversion
of transport continued and resulted in tho migration of a
largo body of the population to tho Arab ooaot# m order

to develop the rocouroao of thio area anl to provide employment
for the numbers of the population which had drifted up to
the Berth of the Gulf and would shortly be unemployed a
scheme for irrigation utilising the Bund River was considered#
This project which owed its discovery to tho energy displayed

by • Consul, yej cr J#B#Kowoa, was worked out aa far as
this oould be dens by laymen and forwarded to ths Saba coy
who invited the views of the Government of India# Ths

pr op o cal a were despatched in Burch but nothing further had
boen heard by ths oloos of ths year*
Rumours of reduotioa In the Allied Forces continued
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to.filter through but dseplts ths withdrawal cf ths

from Buehirs a good deal of work was provided by ths bsokr^ch
of ths earlier undertakings end Bony Inquiries wore received
regarding oonoi&usants which tod gone through ths port in
ths prsoeding throe years*

8* &s sweated migration of loonets throu&i ths
Booth fcrtzcatoly did not take place thcugi every prscautica

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