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FOR TUB TEAR 1015.
Commerce was practically suspended throughout tlio year. The Hindus
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managed with difficulty to import sufficient
Coinmorco. quantities of ordinary commodities such as
oil, tea, sugar, etc., to supply the demands but prices remained very high,
rpowaids the end of tho year a few consignments of carpets were despatched to
Bandar Abbas and unfortunately two of these were captured in Jiruft by the
Baluchi raiders. Excepting just during the Baluch raid into Jiruft tho roads
from tho coast were safe and the few caravans which used them were un­
molested.
The Hospital was managed by Dr. Dodson with the same skill and success
as in previous years. It was kept work­
Church Missionary Sooioty. ing at its full capacity ail the time and
it is to be sincerely hoped that the damage done hy its sojourn in the hands
of the Democrats will not bo irretrievable. Mr. Boyland's school was flourish­
ing until tho change of administration and the amount of “ kultur ” imbibed
by the pupils is not likely to be sufficient to do them any permanent injury.
There was no internal event of any importance in the European com­
munity. The Europeans were naturally
The Europoan Community.
made somewhat anxious by the success of
the German propaganda in Ispahan, Shiraz and the West of Persia but they
refused to beiicve that Kerman would join the movement. They did not realise
that ICerman was only the scene of the play, that the actors wore a company
of Tehrani Democrats, tutored and supported by two Germans, and that the
Kermanis were simply supers paid for or intimidated into playing the neces­
sary banner-bearers and mob. His Majesty’s Consul had tried, without
unduly alarming them, to get the community to unostentatiously put things
together a bit in preparation for a hurried evacuation but they put him down
as unnecessarily nervous and when the crisis came they were quite unprepared.
They did however manage to get their necessary travelling kit together and pack
up a certain amount of their belongings and they ail got down safe and well
to the coast where a transport met them and took them on to Bombay.
The weather was perfectly normal throughout the year. A little snow
in January and February with a little rain
Meteorological.
after, and the usual high winds and dust-
storms in the summer. The necord of the rainfall and maximum and minimum
temperatures are not available.
There were two or three shocks of earthquake but not severe enough to do
any damage.

C. DUCAT, Lieutenakt-Colonel,
RU Britannic Majesty's Consul. Kerman.

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