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4i- ANNUAL EEPOUT ON THE PERSIAN GULP POLITICAL RESIDENCY.

Local Police.—Sheik Chnssib Khan, Nusrat-ul-Mulk, Deputy Governo
of Mohammorah, took up the question of policing tho town, and in AnrM
called for volunteers to enlist in the Force. Two of his trustworthy Aral!
servants were appointed Inspectors. The idea was to have a police force and
station in the town. Theie has been a steady dovclopmont and tho nurnbo
now totals about 150. These men are being instructed in drill and discipline
by one Izzaf Ellcndi (Turkish subject and resident of Basrah), who has been
given tho rank of Captain by the Sheikh and whoso designation is Commif.
sioner of Police, Mohammerah. Since tho formation of tho police force
robberies, eto., in the tow'n have been reduced to a minimum.
Adliyeh.—In December Sheikh Chassib Khan, Nusrat-ul-Mulk, Deputy
Governor of Uqhammerab, notified this Consulate officially that he had inat£
tuted a Judicial Court for the purpose of enquiring into police questions
under liis own supervision. The Court is comprised of 8 members, 4 represent-*
jbg the town, 1 the Arab tribe3, 1 Modei-el-Umum, 1 Mustantiq and the
Sheikh himself.
The guard consisting of one non-commissioned officer, and six sepoya
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June with the approval of the Civil Commissioner in Mesopotamia.
Two loc.-.l Persians have now been engaged, and act as guards during the
day. The night guard i6 furnished by the Sheikh’s Ghulams.
This department worked under Monsieur Andreiux as Director through­
out the year. Several confiscations were
Cu-tomt.
made during the year, the most important
being a conr’gnmenl of opium worth £T 750, which was being smuggled by
come Chinaman crew of a merchant ship.
A petition signed by practically ail the leading merchaats of Mobaramerah,
complaining against the general working of the Customs and its employees,
was submitted to the Deputy Governor.
Two of the Customs employees, one an Italian subject, were also reported
to Teheran by the Director for alleged misappropriation of Customs money.
Oir?, a man named Paul (an Armenian of Isfahan), who was at one time a
Director of Customs at Shushtar, was dismissed, but the cases against the other
two have not been proved.
Worked satisfactorily during the year. The new offices are now occupied.
A telephone line has also been laid to
Pert ted TUe^rxptu.
Basrah by the Telegraph Department
This, however, has been hired solely to the Anglo-Pershn Oil Company, Limi­
ted, for their private use. The other British firms have protested against this,
the contention being that facilities should also be extended to other British
firms, and that it is detrimental to British Trade and British firms that any
single firm should have the monopoly of the line.
Anglo-Persian Oil Company Limited.—The Company’s operations in the
past year include a very heavy programme
Briiub Interest,-
of extension work, the completion of
which will probably double the marketable products at the present time
available.
The through-put capacity of the present pipelines is being increased ny
means of*additional pumping stations, the erection of which are being rapidly
proceeded with at Mulls sani, Kufc Abdullah and Doru-u-Qwaio, early in the
new year, and alone will increase the crude through-put by approximately one-
third of the quantity at present available.
A new ten-inch pipe line is also in course of construction from Wais to the
Oil Fields at Maid^i-Naftun.
At the Company’s Refinery at Abadan largo extension work is in progress.
An additional site has been secured at Barwarda, some 1J miles below Abadan,
where wharfage is being erected together with tankage adequate for the storage
prior to export of the more dangerous petroleum products, at a safe disk*11^
from the main Works.