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SECTION 4.
ARMY.
Tho strength of the Bushiro Garrison was maintained at 8,000 men.
1. Brigadier Gonoral Amidi, Officer in cliargo of tho Ears Division,
carried out an inspection in May.
2. Tho Recruiting Bureau which had been amalgamated with tho Naval
Bureau was separated and rc-constitutod with the Governor as President, a
Military Officer as Recruiting Officer, and a Military Doctor, tho Chief of
Police, the Imam-i-Jumah, and two local merchants, as members. They
havo boon particularly strict and very few exemption papers were issued
during the year. 1,950 recruits were onrollcd. Of theso 500 wero sent to
Shiraz and a 180 to Khorramshahr to join tho Iranian Navy. The rest of tho
recruits wore admitted to the local Military Barx*acks at various times during
tho year.
3. The Military Barracks, the construction of which was begun in 1936,
were practically complete and the local Garrison have occupied them.
4. Major Jalayor was Commander of the Garrison until relieved in July
by Lieutenant-Colonel Karimi.
DISARMAMENT OF THE TRIBES.
As a result of somewhat repressive measures by the Persian Military
Authorities a hundred rifles and two thousand rounds of ammunition were
collected in the districts and have been sent to Bushiro. It is reported that
tho Authorities resorted to flogging to induce persons to give information
regarding the whereabouts of arms and ammunition.

NAVY.
Lieutenant-Colonel Ghulam Ali Bayandor was in charge of the Iranian
Navy throughout the year.
2. During the year the sloop “ Palang ” seized five dhows with 800
packages of contraband goods, the gun-boat “ Shahrokh ” two dhows with
500 packages and the tug “ Niru ” four dhows with 350 packages.
3. The flashing lights installed by the Iranian Naval Authorities at
Bushire and on Qais Island havo not been regularly operated during the year.

SECTION 5.
AVIATION.
British.—Ten British aviators passed through Bushirc during the year.
Foreign.—Air France maintained their weekly service except that in
December owing to heavy rains the landing ground was unserviceable for 20
days. During this period Air mails for and from Bushire were carried
between Basrah and Bushire by the British India Steam Navigation Com­
pany’s Fast Mail steamers.
The K. L. M. maintained their direct service between Jask and Basrah.
Some forty of their machines landed at Bushire to refuel or to take up
passengers.
SECTION 6.
POLITICAL SITUATION.
A Committee of senior officials from tho Iranian Ministry of the Interior
held an Enquiry into the condition of tho peasantry in tho hinterland and
the causes underlying tho continued emigration of people to the Arab side
of the Gulf. It is understood that a report has been submitted by the Com­
mittee to the Central Government but no indication is forthcoming of their
finding.