ملف ٢٢٩٧/ ١٩١٩ "تقارير شهرية للمقيمية البريطانية في الخليج الفارسي. ١٩١٢-١٩٢٠." [ظ‎‎٦‎٥] (١٠٤٤/١٣٥)

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KekMan.
The Governor-General invited the whole British community to lunch at Gov
ernment House on 6th October in order to view the Muharram processions. Several
Contingents of the South Persia Hides took part and everything went off
smoothly.
Mirat-us-Sultaneh, son of Sardar Nasrat, has been appointed Deputy Governor
of Baft vice Asaf-ul-Mulk.
There have been a number of robberies on the YeM road, and several bitter
complaints have been made to His Majesty’s Consul regarding the insecurity now
existing on this road.
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One officer and two mechanics of the Italian Air Force arrived at Charbar on
the 19th October. They have erected five hangars for the Italian aeroplanes which
ate said to be arriving shortly on their way to the Far East.
It is reported that, while Nagdi Khan was absent collecting taxes in the Karwan
district, Yahyah Khan and Ayub Khan entered his fort at Bint and took possession
of all his property including rifles and ammunition. Nagdi Khan is said to have
appealed to Mir Barkat for assistance.
ARABIA.
Muscat.
Customs.—The new staff have now taken over. The Customs books will be
kept in Arabic and a new subordinate Staff 1 of Arabic speaking men is being trained
to the work. Some difficulties over details have been raised by the Hindu commu
nity who did not approve of the new regime which puts an end to their profits over
loans to the Sultan, but it is hoped this obstruction will soon cease.
Effendi Syed Yusuf, Director of Customs, Muscat, left for Khabura in His
Highness’ yacht on the 20th and returned to Muscat on the 23rd'. He again left
for Sur on the 28th accompanied by Effendi Ahmad Zaki’, whom he has appointed
as x Director of Customs there.
Major L. Haworth, I. A., handed over charge of the duties of the office of the
Political Agent and His Majesty’s Consul,'Muscat, to Mr. R. E‘. L: Wingate, I.C.S.
on the forenoon of the 17th October, and left for Bombay on the same day.
The Amir of Jaalan, Chief of the Beni Bu Ali, asked the Captain of the S. T.
'““TugvRoSe” and the Chief Officer of the “ Charles Tellier ” to visit him in Jaalan,
30 miles inland. Their visit lasted 4 days and was most -interesting, the last Euro
peans to visit the headquarters of the Jaalan Country being, it is believed, the
British Force under General Lionel Smith which defeated the Jaalan tribes in 1821
after a very Small force assisting Saiyid Said, Sultan of Muscat, had been roughly
handled in 1820. The Amir of Jaalan is a semi-independent princeling who
acknowledges the suzerainty of the Sultan of Muscat and being a Sunni is not in
any way under the influence of the Imam.
Monsieur C. Lecoutour, the new French Consul, arrived from Bombay on the
20th October accompanied by his wife.
Trucial Coast.
Pearl diving ceased on the 5th October. The earnings of individual boats
have varied between Rs. 20,000 and Rs. 40,00(1 which is better than last year.
Bahrain.
A Kuwait boom arrived at Bahrain from the former port on 21st September
with a Kuwaiij/named Abdullah bin Ali-al-Sharidah on board. He had 40 riflfes and
1,200 cartridges concealed in his baggage, which he was attempting to smuggle into
Bahrain late at night, but the Customs special watchman detected him. His
Excellency the Shaikh^ seized and confiscated the arms and ammunition; but
both the man and the nakhuda, whose name was Ahmad-al-Ghadiri, were le/t off
witl out any enquiry or further punishment. , '