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14 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TERSTAN GULP POLITICAL RESIDENCY
asked them-to block the roads and arrest the mutineers. The result was
satisfactory. The Deputy Governor of Bastak captured 22 of tho uiutiQ
and sent them in chains to Bandar Abbas along with 13 rifles and 331
of ammunition. The remainder of the rifles and 10(5 rounds of ammunit* 1
wore received by His Majesty’s Consul from tho people of Kauristan who h°J
had a scrap with the mutineers and disarmed them. ^
The prisoners were tried by court-martial and sentenced to various term
of imprisonment. 014
Owing to delay in deciding on a suitable site for a caGtonment no buildi
had been erected up to the end of the year, and officers and men have had to hi
accommodated in mot huts and in tents. It is not at all surprising that mail
of the officers have been unable to stand the severe climatic conditions and ha/
had to be invalided. Fever was very prevalent during the first half of the yJr
owing to faulty- sanitation. Major J. M. Holmes, I.M.S., an expert ^
sanitation, was deputed to improve the sanitation of the camp. With the co­
operation of the Deputy Governor and His Majesty’s Consul, a small village of
mud huts situated within the camp limits was purchased from the owners and
the huts demolished and disused wells were filled in. The result of these and
other sanitary measures introduced by Major Holmes was most marked.
Mosquitoes were reduced and there was a considerable failing off in the hospital
attendance and fewer hospital ships were requisitioned to take patients to
India.
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Lieutenant-General Sir George Kirkpatrick, K C.S.I., C.B., Chief of the
General Staff, visited Bandar Abbas on
MbceHanooai.
the 21st April.
His Excellency Rear-Admiral B. F. A-Gaunt, C.B., C.M.G., Naval Com-
mander-in-Chisf, Bast Indies Squadron, visited Bandar Abbas in H.M.8,
" Northbrook99 on the 27th September.
Brigadier-General J. A. Douglas, G.M.G., General Officer Commanding at'
Bushire, visited Bandar Abbas on the 12th Juno and again on the 10th Novem­
ber.
Rear-Admiral D. St. A. Wake, C.I.E., visited Bandar Abbas on the 5th
February and on the lOih November.
Lieutenant-Colonel A. P. Trevor, C.I.E., Deputy Political Resident,
Bushire, visited Bandar Abbas on the 4th October.
Dr. G. E. Pilgrim, F.G.S., Geological Survey of India, arrived in Bandar
Abbas on the 24th October. He was deputed to try and discover a drinking
water supply for tho Base and South Persia Rifies Camp at' Naiband, and
later to examine the sulphur deposits on the mainland and on the Island oi
Qishm. He succeeded in striking fairly good drinking water at a few feet
from ground level about 1\ miles north of the Camp.

W. R HOWSON,
Bit Majesty'8 Vice- Jotisul,
Bandar A#**'