"ملف ١/A/٣٧ I شيخ رأس الخيمة" [و‎‎٥‎٣] (٥٦٠/١١٠)

Translation of letter No.252 dated the 5th June 1934 from the
Residency Agent,Sharjah to Captain A.C.Galloway, Under Secretary
to the Honourable the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf.
After Compliments,
I beg to inform you that I have been informed of tne visits
of the Persian officials to Tinb Island. On 29th May 1934 I sent
a man on my behalf to the official of the Shaikh of Has al
Khaimah at Tinb Island in order to ascertain from him as to what
did they (Persian officials) say to him when they visited the place,
and.I enclose, for your information, a note giving the information
he had been able to obtain from the official of the Shaikh of
Ras al Khaimah and also a letter from the official of the Shaikh
of Has al Khaimah to me. The subject of the letter being that the
Shaikh of Has al Khaimah has not been paying any attention about
Tinb Island nor does he look after his pay. That the(Shaikh * s) man
is poor and intends to go now for diving to earn for his living.
were allowed to go for diving no one would remain in the Island
to report matters to the Shaikh. According to his(Shaikhs'man)
statement, the Persian Officials claim that the Tinb Island belongs
to the Persian Government, whereas he told them the reverse.
state of his official in the Island. I had a talk with the Shaikh
aoout the statement of his official who replied that he does not
get any revenues from the said ^sland; that if the British
Government wish to lease the same from him he has no objection.
Decision depends on whatever the Honourable the Political Heoident
may consider fit to do.
The Shaikh of ^as al Khaimah is not looking alter the
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