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FOR TIIB YEAR 1913. 11
jn March 1913, tho garrisons of Jask and Clmrbar were reduced to 40 and
Jianer, mcamrc«. btranS*cd8 to
;
ilir0. About tho same time a detachment of that regiment was sent to
P\cd the Consulate at J3andar Abb;is °n account of a threatened attack by
Pr°l0 0f tho neighbouring tribesmen The detachments both hero and at
f-nfrah, arc consular guards, but tho cost of their accommodation, together
ith dl0S3 of Jask, Charbar and Hcnjatn, is dcbitablo to Anns TrafBo.
•flic 39th Central India Horse left Shiraz in April, and embarked at
biro for India on tho 10th, 17th, aad 29 ih of April.
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About 230 men of the 2nd Rajputs, and the Intelligence Oflicer, Persian
Gulf, took part in the operations oa the Taagistan coast, to which reference
^ already been made.
On July 9 th, ia consequence of a threatened rising in Oman, 250 men
of the 2nd Raj puts from JBushiro were scat to protect Alaska*, and Matrali, at
the express request of the Sultan. The vising was caused by tho acquiescence
of the Sultan to the establishment of an arms warehouse at Maskat. The
troops encamped at Bait-al-Falaj, about IJ miles from Matrah, and the same
distance from Ituwi. On September 3rd, the carrison was augmented by the
arrival of a wing of the 102nd Grenadiers, and a portion of tho 13th Mule
Corps, which brought up the total of troops in Oman to oyer 709 of all ranks.
In December, a double company of the 93th (llussel'I's) Infantry arrived
at Jask, and shortly after thu remaining wing of tho 102nd Grenadiers arrived
in Sushire, relieving the 2nd Rajputs who left for India on the 23rd
December.
A General Staff Officer is employed in the Persian Gulf as Intelligence
e . Officer whoso headquarters was changed
System <A Iutet„s=„eo. ;n Apri, frQm Jask BUskirC. Ia 1912
the Navy also employed an Intelligence Officer, but the appointment was
discontinued at the beginning of the year under report. Major S. G. Craufurd,
D.S O, was Military Intelligence Officer from 1910 to April 1913,
when his place was taken by Major O. C. R. Murphy, Indian Army, who
performs the duties of both. The Indian Police maintain a Sub-Inspector and
two Head Constables at Maskat, and a Head Constable at Jask, under a
District Superintendent, on special duty, whose headquarters are at Karachi
The Director of the Persian Gulf Section of the Indo-European Telegraphs is !
employed on special political duty in Mckran, under the orders of the Political
Resident, Persian Gulf. There is also a combined patrol and telephone
establishment in those .parts under tho telegraph officer in charge of the Jask
Sub-division, for the purpose of giving information concerning the landing of
arms on the coast between Jask and Cbarbar, and also in regard to the
presence of Afghans in that neighbourhood.

G. O. E. MURPHY, Major, L A.,
Intelligence Officer, Persian Qul/.
Btjshirb,
The 3rd February 1914.