Page 143 - PERSIAN 8 1912_1920_Neat

FOR THE YEAR 1013. 0
^ strike of carpet woavers, i a October, is estimated to have co9t Foreign
uot merchants £1,000. Baluch raids, as usual, afflicted the province, notably
oa Tahrud in May and again on Jiruft in November.
interesting and remarkably full account of municipal affairs and
^frigucs of Kerman city will be found in Captain Lorimer’s report.
It waB only at the end of the year that the Gendarmerie arrived. The
Swedish officers in charge were handicapped by illness and ignorance of the
^ and the force has not yet had time to produce any effect good or had in
german.
The report notices the Trans-Persian Railway project and the proposed
x,»rj-Fcr»ian Railway and Kerman Mining Kerman Minin" Concession. Neither
facrtilo®* have so far materialised, hut the country
between Karachi and Kerman was again thoroughly examined and, in the course
of this examination, some attention was paid to the mineral resources of the
country round Kerman. The impressions gathered were unfavourable.
The cheerful and innocuous anarchy, anticipated in last year’s review,
would scorn to have characterised this
Pcreo-JIatoMi Coast.
district during the year.
Mir Bar hat, -who used to he such a disturbing factor, appears to have
settled down to dull respectability. The fact of Barnpur being abandoned to
jlir Islam Khan of Binth is significant, as well as the reported intention of
tlat Chief to opposo any attempts of the Persians to* rc-asscrt their authority
in Baluchistan. The contingency is so remote, that it hardly seems likely
that the peace of the country side will be disturbed by Persian activity during
1914.
During the year, post offices have been opened to the public at Henjam
and Charbar.
Post Office*.
The Mohanunerah report, as might be expected in the case of the most
flourishing and progressive port in the
AnVistao.
Gulf, contains many matters of interests
German progress needs careful watching, especially when our Consul is cor-
viaccd that their success is, partly at all events, based on smuggling.
The Belgians do not seem to have made themselves popular in the district
and attacks on them and friction between them and the Shaikh, due to their
attempts to encroach on His Excellency’s prerogatives, form a feature of this
year’s report, as they have done in the past. An abortive attempt to establish
a Persian post office at Abadan brought them into conflict with the Anglo-
Persian Oil Company, and His Majesty’s Representative.
The question of increasing accommodation at the British Post Office at
Mohammerah and of the establishment of new officers at Abadan and Ahwar
*ere under consideration at the close of the year.
The Mohammcrah-Ahwaz-Borasjan section has been handed over to the*
hdo*European Telegraph Department during the year.
The needs of Mohammerah in the matter of hospital, school and road are;
discussed by H?« Majesty’s Consol.
It is satisfactory to note the progress made by the two most notable local
British enterprises, the Anglo-Persian Oil Company and the Mohammerah
Branch of the Imperial Bank of Persia during the past year.
An event of considerable importance and much local interest to Moham--
5jcrah was the arrival there of the members of the Turco-Persian Frontier
.remission. No serious work, beyond that of preparation, was done before*
^0 close of the year.
The Mohammcrah report also contains an interesting account of the;
ra^ss made up to the end of the year of the Mohammerah-Khurramabad
to project; tho set-back appears to bo only temporary, and we may look
f *ome advance before the present year close*