"ملف رقم ٠٢٢٣ شؤون رأس الخيمة" [و‎‎٥‎٦] (٢٨٤/١١١)

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Sharjah
21»t aaptambar 1946#
political, Bahrain
my telegram jNtt.970 dated tht 19th &epten,b«r 1946.
2. I iVvvard herawith, in •ri^inal v.ith translatian, letter dated
the 22nd ®f thawwal 1365 (18.9.46) frem Shaikh icuhammad bin Selim
in which he invokes uevemment^s help.
3. shfc ikh sultan bin salim left Sharjah ©n the 15th September
fer Bhaid. He reachea Hhaid U.e Seme evening and secretly
conferred with shaikh Muhammad bin Ali bin Huwaidin, chief ef the
Beni Qitab. hethxiig is known of what vae decided between them but
it is rumoured that shaikh Sultan aeunded the chief of beni ^itab
a,j t® whether he would help him in cast ©f an emergency and that
the latter premised to de a©, shaikh sultan spent the night in the
uesert, and arrived at Has al Khaim&h next moi’ning. hrem further
enquiries made, i have come t® know that shaikh sultan purchased
u¥/o rifles only privately and the Shaikh of Dubsi premised to help
him with anas and ammunition if he needed them, news has also
reached me to the oifect that sheikh sultan*a sone broke into the
houses of uw© of shaikh kuhammad bin Salim*a sons at was al khaimah
and plundered their belen^iiigs.
while in Dubai sliaikh sultan conferred with shaikh Hashid
bin sa*id and was visited by shaikh Jum , ah bin Maktum who promised
him of Bubai*6 support with all the flattery for which he is knewn.
4. In the evening of the 18th September shaikh sultan bin saqr,
Ruler of sharjah, returned from Ras al Khaim&h anc came te see me
on the 19th. He teld me that there was ne change in the situatien
and that shaikh Sultan was adamant and unwilling to relax his
term that his brother and nophews should loaus Ras al Khaimah
although he, shaikh of ©harjah, told him that he vas prepared te
guarantee that his brether and nephews will not do anything against
him. In the afterneen the Shaikh of sharjah again met me and
handed ever te me a letter frem shaikh Muhammadbin salim referred
to in para 2 above. I was going to report this to you. by telegram
but in the meantime I received yeur telegram Re.242 of 19th
September to which I sent you a reply tky telegram No.970 dated
19th September 1946). The Shaikh ef Sharjah propeses to go to was-