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bodies**”0* °f Winab* WllinS the man with liis wife and son and mutilated their

The security in Minab and Beyabnn areas is so disturbed that travelling
trom one vi 1 jure to another in broad day light cannot bo undertaken alone
looting- of houses and carrying away of cattle is a matter of frequent occur-
ronee.
Several-thefts were brought to the notice of the local police authorities in
tlie month of August 1934, one of which was that the house of 2 post office clerks
was broken in4o and all valuable property stolen. No attempt has been made to
capture me culprits.
C on ditto n of Roads.

Bandar Abbas.—The road authorities started widening the Tang-i-Zagh on
the Bandar Ahbas-Kerman motor road in November 1934 and since then the
traffic and mail services on this road has become very irregujar owing to con-
Mant land slides. Sometimes the mails arc transhipped at the Tang with great
difficulty by means of camels and donkeys, thus mails from Kerman and viva
versa take about (i to 10 days to reach cither destination. As the Minister of
Finance was to go by the Bandar Abbas-Kcrman road to Tehran, the road
authorities engaged extra labourers and cleared the debris by the 12th February
1935. The Minister of Finance promised to provide funds for widening the
Tang.
Lino ah.—The Lar-Bastak roads, which were recently repaired, have been
washed down by the recent rains and are impassable for ’wheeled traffic.
The Bushire-Lingah road is nearing completion and it is reported will bo
•open for traffic by the end of March 1935. This road is mainly to prevent
smuggling of goods from Dubai and Bahrain. It is widely known that the per­
sons entrusted with this work are deliberately doing it very slowly in order to
continue smuggling activities for as long as possible.

Slaves.
No slave sought asylum at this Consulate during the year under report.
Aviation.
The French aeroplane Air France F-Alzar western bound -with 3 French
passengers made a forced landing at Bandar Abbas on the 1st November 1934
at 8 a.m. due to some engine trouble, and took off for Busliire at 11 a.m. the samo
day.
Lady Blanche Douglas arrived from Bushirc in her aeroplane G-Atwy at
12-30 i\m. on the 16th November 1934 and left for Jask at 3-30 r.M. the same
day.
Roumanian Engineer Ion-Cociasu in his own moth plane Yr-Aan arrived
from Bukharest via Turkey, Iraq and Bushire at 4-50 p.m. on the 3rd March
1935. lie took off at 6 a/m. on the 4th for Calcutta via Jask, Gwadur and
Karachi.
Navy.
French.—Cruiser “ Bougainville ” arrived from Karachi on the lltli
February and remained at the outer anchorage for 24 hours wing to rough
weather. Tne Admiral on board and the Captain paid a visit to the local
Governor al JJ a/m. and the Cruiser left after the Governor returned the call on
beard.
I ran hm.—Sloop “ Palang ” arrived on the Gth April, 27 th June, 1st Septem­
ber 1934, 23rd January and 21st March 1935.
Sloop “ Bn hr ” arrived on the Gth April, 2nd July, 22nd October 1934, 23rcJ
January and 21st March 1935.
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