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PERSIAN GULF POLITICAL RESIDENCY, 1920. 11

CHAPTER II.

Administration Report of the Bunder-Abbas and Lingah Vice-Consulate
for the year 1920.
Vice Consulate.
Bunder Albas.—Mr. G. A. G. MunGavin held the post of His Majesty’s
Vice-Consul, with personal rank of Consul, until the 8th November, when he
was relieved by Mr. A. W. Fagan.
Lingah.—Mr. J. G. Johnstone, Quarantine Medical Officer, held charge of
the Vice-Consulate until the 30th April, when Mr. G. A. G. Mun Gavin
relieved him, thus bringing Lingah and district within the area administered
by His Majesty*8 Vice-Consulate, Bunder Abbas. Mr. A. W. Fagan relieved
Mr. G. A. G. MunGavin on the 8th November.

Foreign Representatives.
Bunder Abbas.—Nil.
Lingah.—Haji Ahmed bin Yusuf Khaja continued to act as agent for
His Highness the Sultan of Muscat.

Local Government.
Bunder Abbas.—Sartup Mirza Ali Karam Khan, Shuja Nizam, C.I.E.,
held the office of the Deputy Governor throughout the year. On 26th May
a Robe of Honour was presented to him by Hadi Khan on behalf of His
Excellency the Darya Begi. His attitude has always been cordial, but
complaints of his cruelty and extortion have been frequent, and though many
of them were probably inspired by his enemies—especially since the change of
Governors in Bushire—there is undoubtedly much truth underlying them.
His intrigues to obtain the Deputy Governorship of Lingah or Minab for his
son, Kohandil Khan, ihtiraad Nizam, have during the latter part of the year
given much trouble to His Majesty’s Vice-Consul, the occupants of the coveted
posts, and the inhabitants of the districts concerned.
Lingah.—Kohandil Khan, Ihtimad Nizam, held office as Deputy
Governor up to 16fh March, when he proceeded to Bunder Abbas on two
months’ leave. Nejef Quli Khan acted for him up to 26th May, when
Mohamed Reza Khan, Satwat-ul-Mamalik, was appointed Deputy Governor.
Ihtimad Nizam’s attitude was at first friendly, but latterly he became
secretly hostile to His Majesty’s Vice-Consulate, while his handling of public
funds came under suspicion.
Satwat-ul-Mamalik is the son of Soulat-ul-Mulk, Khan of Bastak and
he possesses strong influence locally. He is a firm friend of the British
but is not on good terms with any of the Government’s departments at Lingah,*
and many intrigues are in progress to secure his dismissal.
JUinab.—Kaid Mohamed Ali Khan held the post of the Deputy Governor
of Bunder Abbas up to the 17th December, when he was summoned to Bushire
to answer various charges made against him from Minab. His place was
taken temporarily by Mirza Mohamed Shafi, a munshi of the Governor of
Bushire, who had been sent to Bunder Abbas to settle the parliamentary
elections.
Kaid Mohamed Ali is a rough diamond hut strongly pro-British. On his
arrival in Bunder Abbas His Majesty’s representative was about to visit Minab

*