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but Her Majesty's Government decided that the scheme of separate action
by British cruisers adopted in 1881 should continue to be followed, and
that Turkish co-operation should not be invited. In some of the cases ctf
piracy partial redress had been afforded by the Turks ; and it was decided
by Her Majesty's Government to refrain, in these circumstances, from
further demands for reparation.
In September 1893 a Kuwait vessel, beached at Qatif, was|attacked
by 15 robbers; one of the crew was wounded and one of the marauders
killed. Pursuit was made by Turkish customs guards, but was ineffec
tual.
In 1895 a single Arab,* while travelling as a passenger in a boat
from Qatif to Bahrain with Tek Chand Dwarka Das of the Indian firm
of Ganga Ram Tikam Das & Co. in Bahrain, made a brutal and trea
cherous attack upon his Hindu fellow passenger. The Baniyah, by throw
ing himself overboard, escaped with the loss of a hand and other severe
wounds ; and the Arab then caused himself to be landed upon the coast
with all the valuables—chiefly pearls—which the boat contained, estimated
at Rs. 40,000. From the records it does not appear that satisfaction
was ever demanded or obtained for this heinous outrage upon a British
subject.
In 1896 Turkish gunboats were present more continuously than
usual on the Hasa coast ; but the Bani Ilajir, nevertheless, committed
some piracies in Bahrain waters.
In 1899 a fresh outbreak of piracy began along the shores of Hasa ;
it was directed, as usual, chiefly against Bahrain shipping, the richest and
the most delt-nceless in those seas.
Ihe first case brought home to Turkish subjects was the plunder, on
the 11th August 1899, of a Bahrain jolly-boat upon the Shiqqatah pearl
bank to the north-west of Bahrain ; the robbers were 'Amair of Halat
Darin on Tarut Island, and the loss caused was estimated at Rs. 1,500.
The next year, on the 17tb of August 1900, another Bahrain boat was
boarded off Ras Tanurah, again by natives of Darin ; property to the
value of Rs. 3,92 i was carried off, and a passenger who threw himself
into the sea to escape the pirates was drowned. On the 2nd of Septem-
ber 1900 a Bahrain vessel was taken at sea, only a few miles morth of
Manamah town, by Bani Hajir buccaneers, the damage done on this
occasion amounting to Rs. 732 ; and on the same day a predatory
. ttack was made, likewise by Bani Hajir, upon some Arabs on the island
W lS a PP. areR 1 tl y Aluwad-bm-Salinan, who afterwards became a notorious
pimte. bee two pages further du.