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VII. SECURITY*
A general stats' of insecurity existed in the Province
throughout the greater portion of the year. Reports of hold­
ups on the rar-.in ro^dj- were frequently received, snu though the
Indi-n Lon* Range Squadron operated periodically on the 2ahi-
dan - Kerman route, their i:reteiice did not di-courage the
activities of the bandits as strongly as niwht hove teen ex-
pectfed • At tne beginning ox the year, the focal point wen,
ea in the previous year, mainly in the 3irj-ir. ares, where
Akb>r hhon Shujepur, the elder ion of Hiuain K,.an Buchakchi, and
ilur^c-Ali-ilurad, another member of the Buchakchi tribe, arid
hi« gang continued to abscond and to rain travellers and
villages with impunity. Husain IC.an, who had by this time
apparently m--da attempts to settle down peaceably, professed
to*be doing everything in his power to control Akbar Khan
Shujupur’s actions or.u to brirg him in, together with Kuraa-
Ali-liurao. Sarly in the year, the military authorities issued
3n ultimatum to Shuj&pur to the effect that if he did not
surrender within a given period, operations ag iinst him would
commence. The periou of tne ultimatum v.as later extended
ana finally expired, but Shujapur showed no signs cf complying
with the orJ^er, nor were the promised operations set in motion.
In ilarch, however, Shujacur surrendered on ; is own acccvd
handed in hie arms n- was reported to have settled down to
farming with his father.
Kurid-Ali-Yursd, however v.ss still ut large. In
Karch, he wrote a letter to this Consulate sskin^ for a
guarantee of i.nzur.itg enu future emtio;,1rc-nt if he would come
in snx tar render his arms. He v.a= ;dvi-ea tc surrender, but
told th-t no ^ a-rentes could be given him. In the me on time,
he -r:u his gong became ircreeeingly active era strong rumour.,
circulated to the effect th-t he inv.richly monwged to evade
capture by the payment of large sum- of money in bribes to
officers of the Ganuermerie, whose connivance in bi t, ry
become a public scandal. 3ortic - which were made agair.it
him by t*v« military authorities often resulted in smell
engagements in which the military usually suffered heavier
cacunities then the ban-its. Tosorde the end of the ye«r,
however, 2 more serious view was apparently taken ox this
ban wit' s activities suu the military garrison at 3iry on v.ao
supplemented with more troops ana the stteexs on the outlaws
v.ere thereafter carried out* with more effect. LIurc-d-Ali-
Kurod was forced out of the district ana eventually fled to
?ers with a hindful of his followers, th= remainder of his
gang beirg captured and brought to Kenaan for trial.
The following are the more serious incidents reported
during the yter 1-
1. A villager was attacked, wounded ana robbed by bandits
on the Yezd road, 15 miles fx-om that town on January 4th*
2* A darir-g robbery took place at Bsghin during the 2nd
half of January, when robbers entered the house belonging to
a member of the Ibrahimi family end removed 811 the valuables,
and other moveable property they could lay their hands on.
One of the robbers was wounded in a claeh which followed with
the Gendarmes pursuing them and the remainder jettisoned their
booty anu made for the hills.
3. During the first half of Kerch, thievea broke into a
store room in the Consulate pz-emisea and made off with some

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