"ملف 14/201 II، مسائل متنوعة خاصة بالساحل المتصالح، B 57" [و‎‎١‎٤‎٦] (٤١٧/٢٩٩)

Confidential.
t^
Office of the Political Kesident
in the i ersian (iuli : >
Gamp, Kuwait.
r >.0,Ho .a /75. Dated the let February, 1940.
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A belated account of my recent tour of the Trucial
Coaet may be of interest, and I have endeavoured to gi'v2 a
general impreesion rather than to dispose of important
questions which have been the subject of special referei .oe6.
We left Kuwait with a threatening slsj and sea, and
next day it blew a north-westerly gale. The Tfearohua is s
lively craft, and had we been proceeding in the opposite
direction we should have undoubtedly been obliged to heave
to. as were two sniall steaners that we passed in the night.
2. We had to call at ^amb Island and I took the
, You will remember that the ,>«.»i<ih
opportunity to go ashore, -ou ftixx
of Ras al Khaimah recently felt that he did not get
sufficient profit from the island, and flirted with the
Persians ? His representative n^ apparently just gone to
Leeser Ta^b. and hie flag was not flying, apparent as an
eoonoBiy, and X left instructions for it to be flown regular-
I found that the only local employee of the Persian
Gulf Lighting Service on the island is a Persian^t.^^
to air John vard that when occasion offers they should
substitute a subject of the Shaikh of Ras al Khaimah for
him, as it is obviously undesirable that the only local
employee of the Government of India should be a Persian.
/ 3.
O.K.Caroe B «2 uire ' 'lil^overnment of India.
Seoretar, Affal r B W^ment.^^