مجموعة ٩/٣٠ "الخليج الفارسي: تقارير إدارية ١٩٢٦-١٩٣٨" [ظ‎‎٢‎٥‎٦] (١٠٢٨/٥١٧)

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-Stringent measures of retrenchment and economy resulted in *
surplus" lmpr0Vement in the State ’ s dances and the year ended witS a
The prestige of the State was raised by the submission in MnmU , .
threat °f force of the recalcitrant Bani Bu Ali tribe. Three Sloops onhe
Persian Gulf Division, three Royal Air Force Flying Boats a detachment % f
Muscat Levies, and the Muscat State gunboat, were concentrated near Sur
bin Abdulla, the Chief of the tribe, was informed that if he would not nermit ^
establishment of a Customs post at Sur, as a sign of the State’s suzerainty hi!
fort at Aiqa, a suburb of Sur, would be bombarded bv His Majesty’s sinV,
and his tort at Ja’alan SO miles away in the interior, wouMbe bombed P hv
4 fter fi^ hts Royal Air Force Flying Boats had taken place over
Ja alan and warning pamphlets had been dropped, Ali bin Abdulla submitto I
A satistactory result was thus brought about without a shot beino- fired tT *
importance of the incident lay in the fact that other recalcitrant Chiefs elsuwher!
m Muscat territory were watching events at Sur, and—if Ali bin Abdid!! if !
not been taken to task—might in their turn have endeavoured to senarU*
themselves from the Muscat Government, when the wholesale disiiitegratioii of
the State might well have commenced. * 1011
f 11 T - a( ?Z S1 5 es of , tbe Tlie trade on the Arab side is dealt with
fillip m the Trade Reports from the Agencies for the year in question
liade on the Peisian side as far as Bushire is concerned i«? dpnlf n-m *
Seohon 8 of Chapter I of this Report. As far as Souft Per a genera v Is
asTtasaac ' “• r “ r ,r ~ ojsstz
, .y| ril fh general econoi ^ 1( i depression due to extraneous causes was accentuated
b> / if Govornment restrictions on trade, monopolies and control of exchange
and the famine conditions which prevailed in the South owing to the f-eneml
failure of the rams during the winter of 1931-32. 6 ° eneial
Persian side of the Gulf. —On the Persian side of the Gulf the Persian
Government continued with some success its work of disarmino- fL Gu
separate them from their hereditary leaders, and inefeSu^co^rofo^
^ Seenrityin the South was good in the early months of the year but tlia
pievalence of famine conditions led to an increase later in brigandage’
demi-official—was receivld from hi^^’ t T d c ° n «; de ™We assistance-official and
1Lceuea tro m him m the solution of various local problems.
T. C. FOWLE, Lieut.-Colonel,
Political Resident in the Persian Gulf.