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The troops left for their summer residence (Ginau mountains) on the
14th July, and returned to Bandar Abbas in September.
Sarhang Nasrullah Khan, Director-General of Military Music, arriv­
ed from Bushirc in January and left for Kerman.
The famous Abdul Hussain Kamoran surrendered with 126 of his
followers in April. As reported he was appointed by the Government to
guard the roads of Bashakard and is paid a salary of Rials 60,000 (£750)
per annum.
Conscription.—972 conscripts were discharged and 2,580 were enlisted
during the period 15th Mehr to 30th Azar (7th October to 21st December).
Mines.—Iranian Mining Engineers and Inspectors from Tehran paid
frequent visits to the Red Oxide mines at Hormuz Island during the year.
The Customs Department has been working the Red Oxide mines.
During the month of October Sulaiman Zadeh, a Mining Engineer, arrived
from Tehran and started work in the salt mines on the Island. He also
started the construction of a road from the salt mines to the beach in front
of the Customs House for the transportation of salt. Plans have been
submitted to Tehran for the erection of a Government building and store
room on- the Island.
Two geologists und'er Mr. Abdaaleyan arrived from Tehran to proceed
to Jask from where they would go to Lingah and Bustanah to survey the
mines.
Messrs. Martin Brothers of Tehran were granted the sole monopoly
of sales of Hormuz Red Oxide in India and the East and shipped 3,000 tons
of red oxide to Calcutta during the month of June.
Mirza Abdul Mohommad Danishwar of the firm of Irano-Japan
Trading Company, Tehran, who is reported to have been granted the mono­
poly right of the Salt mines of Naniakdan (Kishm Island), in partnership
with the Banque Falahati (Agricultural Bank), arrived during November,
and was accompanied by a Russian Engineer and a mechanic. Work has
commenced at Naraakdan and it is said that 6,000 tons of salt are ready for
export.
Mr. Eichi Machi, representative of the firm of Mitsui Bussan Kaisha
Limited, Tehran, arrived from Tehran during the month of November.
After visiting the salt mines of Hormuz and Namakdan he proceeded to
Japan. It is believed that this Company intend competing with the Irano-
Japan Trading Company for the purchase of salt from the Sherkato
Namak.
13,837 tons of Red Oxide were shipped to foreign countries during the
year.
Shipping and Navigation.—146 steamers of all nationalities aggregat­
ing 330,308 tons entered and cleared the port of Bandar Abbas. Of these,
131 vessels with a total tonnage of 262,868 were British, 10 vessels with
a total tonnage of 45,000 German, 3 vessels with a total tonnage of 13,500
were Japanese, and 2 vessels with a total tonnage of 9,000 were Greek.
'Russian interest.—11,001 bags of Russian granulated sugar and
25,505 bans of Russian loaf sugar were imported at Bandar Abbas for the
Iranian Government during the year.
British Consulate Kerman, C. H. LINCOLN, Major,
Dated at Bandar Abbas, 4th February 1937. His Majesty's Consul.

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