"الخليج العربي - الولاية القضائية التركية على طول الساحل العربي (الجزء الثاني)" [و‎‎١‎٥‎٢] (٤٥/١١)

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t1Strs C hne r s e s POrted ' ai1 act of
We would therefore suo^esf fhnf
KoS b tr Her
01 ioreiga Affairs m order that the Turkish
Government may be called oa for explanation and
c o give some suitable compensation to the
two men, Cheyla and Rama."
' s; JlT d toi 3 Ilst ™°' ;i()Ils fr Office,*
,1 ^^t^essed a formal note to the Porte
on the 23rd April 1876, calling for a full explana
tion and adequate compensation.
To this day, however, neither the one nor the
other has been received, the Turkish Government
having, so far as appears, taken no notice whatever
of the communication made to them. The fact is
not without significance in connection with the
proposal to trust to diplomacy for the settlement
of such questions on the Arab coast of the Gulf.
During the summer of 1876 there was a marked
increase of piratical acts along the Guttur coast.
liist. In the month of June or July the owners
of an Aboothabee boat, who had sold some pearls at
Guttur, took the money on board, and anchored in
the harbour of El Bidaa. At night they were
attacked by seven of the Beni Hajir tribe, who
killed the Nakhoda, wounded two of the crew,
plundered the boat, and then proceeded off in a
Persian boat to Nabund, on the Persian coast.
Second. About the same time, a large body of the
Beni Hajir and other tribes in the neighbourhood
of Bahrein attacked the Muttayer tribe near Koweit,
. and suffered a severe repulse.
Third. In the month of August a rumour reached
the Officiating Eesident, to the effect that another
party of the Beni Hajir had seized a boat belonging
to the Oman pearl divers at Odeid.
Fourth. In the same month the Chief of
Aboothabee complained that two of his boats,
which had anchored in the Bay of Odeid, had been
attacked from the shore, one man being wounded,
and one killed.
Pifth. Again in August a section of the Beni
Hajir, residing at Odeid, under the rule of Sheikh
Salim bin Shafee, embarked from that port, and
made an attack upon a boat belonging to Gutfcur,
from which property to the value of ^400 was
plundered. •
The first of these outrages having been committed
in waters of which the territorial possession was
claimed by Turkey, and the Turkish Government
having, on a previous occasion, been held responsible
for the Chief of El Bidaa (with the absence of result
shown above), the Government of Indiaf supported
a recommendation of Jjieutenant-Colonel Prideaux
that the Porte should be pressed to compel the
Chief to give compensation to the sufferers from an
outrage committed within his jurisdiction.
On the general question Colonel Prideaux ex
pressed his views at length in a letter, dated the
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