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FOB TIIE YEAR 1015. 9
allowed through for some timo. On finding ho lmd been bluffed tho Qawam
collected liis men and tho two parties remained facing each other for rome
time.
After a timo tho Gendarmes and Democrats called on the Qawam to
make terms with them, but they offered such conditions that the Qawam
rejected them with scorn. Tho Gendarmes therefore attacked Qawam, and
after several days fighting, as his ammunition was running short, ho had to
evacuate tho city, towards the end of December, and retire in tho direction of
Pasa.
Thus, at the end of the year, Shiraz was in the hands of tho rebels, and
its Governor in retreat while a hostile gathering of tribsemen menaced Bushire.
Tho rebels nominated Nasir-ul-Mulk, Govornor of Shiraz, and Mansur-us-
Sultaneh as Ilkhani of tho Khamseh tribes in place of Qawam-ul-Mulk.
To return to Bushire; nothing of much importance happened after tho
end of the occupation except the arrival
Bushire after occupation of the ladies of the Shiraz Colony alluded
to above, on the 20th November.'
Occasional night raids were made by sniping parties of the enemy on
various outposts. On the night of the 9th of December a rather bigger affair
look place. A party of about 100 or so got through the outpost line and part
of it came right up to the Cavalry camp at Iraamzadeh and fired into it at
close range, while another party fired at the British Residency at Subzabad;
fortunately only‘One sowar was killed and a sepoy slightly wounded; one or
two horses were wounded.
The following ships visited Bushire: His Majesty’s Ships “Juno”,
“Py ramus*’, “ Clio”, “ Espieglo”, “ Law­
Miscellaneous. Visits of Hi» Majesty's Ships. rence”, “Dalhousie”, “Britomart” and
“ Bramble.”
Owing to the threatened attacks on Bushire from the 4th August, His
Majesty’s Ship “ Juno ” and one or two nf the smaller craft were always
here.
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Percy Cox, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf
and Chief Political Officer, paid a firing visit to Bushire on 30th Decem­
ber.
Pour slaves from the Trucial coast were manumitted during the year.
A table showing the year’s rainfall is attached.
A. P. TREVOR, Major,
J)epu(y Political Resident in the Persian Gulf \
Bushier ;

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