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28 PERSIAN GULF ADMINISTRATION REPORT

The following foreign subjects wero residents at the ports of tbo Mckrau
Coast during the year :—
Foreign Subject*.

Nam*. Place. Naroo of prcUgS. Rc marie*.

Johannes Pater Charbar Dutchman. Is in charge
o£ Persian Customs.

Out of seven fresh claims preferred by British Indian subjects
C!o;inB against the people of Mekran during the
year, one was settled and the remaiuing
are under settlement. One old claim against Mir Ahmed Khan was also
settled. Two claims of the line establishment against a subject of Islam
Khan were settled by that Chief. Islam Khan has satisfactorily settled the
case regarding the Shah Beg patrol, whose property he had looted in 1913,
and has given assurances that he will protect him in future. Nothing was
done as regards other cases proved at the meeting held at Charbar in June
and July 1906, particulars of which were supplied to His Britannic Majesty’s
Minister at Tehran. There seem no prospects of their settlement in the
near future.
During the year a dinghy of a British Iudian subject resident at Gwadur
with cargo belonging to a Kuwait subject
Wreck*.
was wrecked off Ras Maidani. The
cargo was salved by the Islam Khan’s men who sold it and kept the proceeds.
A lifeboat of 8. S. “City of Winchester” which was sunk by the Germans
inside the Kuria Murias was picked up by a Nakhuda of a boat about seven
miles from Ormara.
A Mekran Levy Corps escort of one Native officer and fifty men was
luilitaryescort supplied to the Assistant Superintendent,
J Jask Sub-division, for the annual inspec­
tion of the telegraph line. After his arrival at Charbar from Jask the escort
was returned to their headquarters.
Mr. Pinsent, Assistant Superintendent’s, report, regarding the condition of
districts with which he is immediately concerned, is enclosed.
JASK.
Mir. M. P. O’Reilly, Officer in Charge- of Telegraph Station, was
Biitiih Official.. Director’s representative throughout
the year in connection with political
matters.
Shaikh Saleh arrived as Deputy-Governor of Jask from Bushire on the-
18th December with ten “ Tufangchis "
Deputj’-Gorernor of Jasfc.
(riflemen).
Mirza Assadullah Khan arrived from Bandar Abbas on the 15th April to
relieve Mirza Abdur Rahman, who left for
Persian Customs.
Kishm on transfer on the 22nd. The
former was relieved by Mirza Husain Khan, who arrived on the 6th May and
has been there since. Mirza Assadullah Khan returned to Bandar Abbas.
On the recommendation of Mr. Pinsent, a present (a telescope) was sent
to Mir Barkat. He sent several letters
Mir Bsrkst Khan.
to the Officer in charge of the Telegraph
Station asking him to arrange an interview with the Director but, uudor
instructions from the Political Resident, who considered the sending of a present
sufficient recognition for the time and an interview undesirable, ho was told
that the meeting could not be arranged.
A garrison of 80 native troops under two British officors and 3 Indian
Waf. TrooM. officers was maintained at Jask for tno
protection of the Telegraph Station and i
connection with the Arms Traffio operations. One British and one Ind10
officer and 20 sepoys were sent to Charbar on special duty.