'Persian Gulf Gazetteer, Part I Historical and Political Materials, Précis of Bahrein [Bahrain] Affairs, 1854-1904' [‎107] (126/204)

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8th August 1900, a Bahrein boat was attacked on the Grai-
mia pearl bank, 6 miles north of Ras
, secret e., march j 902, No. 9 6 - Rekkan. Property valued at Rs. 315'^
was stolen. No redress was obtained.
08^. On the 6th September 1900, a Bahrein boat was attacked off Ojair,
^ . r> m 1 fiT Two persons were wounded, and consider-
lectet E.', watdh 1902! No. 96. able property (value not stated) was plun-
^rpd Most of the property belonged to Turkish subjects and was recovered
hv the Mutassarif of Hasa, who punished the tribe responsible for the outrage.
None of the property belonging to the Bahrein owners appears to have been
j-estor ^ thei . e was recrudescence of piracies in the vicinity of Katar
3 ^ and Bahrein, committed by a party of the
Secret E., Jan uar y'S 04, Nos " ll8 ' 139 ' Beni Hajir under the leadership ^ of the
. • liq Ahmed-bin-Selman. In July^oa they took a boat at Senahs, with
thev crossed to the island of Um Nasan, and on 4th August captured
W1 Bahrein dhow A term adopted by British officials to refer to local sailing vessels in the western Indian Ocean. of 28 tons burden, which was lying there to load lime for
Lhrein by means of which dhow A term adopted by British officials to refer to local sailing vessels in the western Indian Ocean. , some ten days later they waylaid and robbed
another' Bahrein boat, off Thaein in the Katar peninsula, of property valued at
^ 5l4 ^''7 In his letter No. 167, dated 8th December 1902, Colonel Kemball reported
3 0 7- t j iat Ahmed-bin-Selman belonged to the A!
No. 123. Khalifa branch of the Bahrein Sheikhs, and
been once a subject of Bahrein, but had long since turned an outlaw. He first
t.Tnn Katar but had removed to Katif before the recent piracies were commit-
In thesrcircunSances the Chief of Katar could not be held responsible for
niracies. The Chief of Bahrein proposed that he should be permitted to
these p ' e( j i n pursuit of the pirates. He believed that a small
^ seHike a dhow A term adopted by British officials to refer to local sailing vessels in the western Indian Ocean. at his disposal could pursue the pirates' boats at a moment s
VeS - A with areat facility in the narrow channels between Katif, Katar
notic 6 and KembaU was inclined to think (paragraph last ot his
Bahrein, letter No. 167, dated 8th December 190a)
No. 133. t hat the Chief might be given the per
mission applied for on the following conditions ^ . o u • u,
(i) that the permission of the Assistant Poht.cal Agent at Bahrein be
obtained in the first instance;
(ii) that one of the Chief's sons or other responsible person be put in
charge of the boat;
(iii) that the operations of the boat be confined to the seas between a
point north of Ras Tanura and eastward round the Katar
peninsula towards the neighbourhood of Bida.
The Government of India then addressed the following letter to Su*
C. Drury, Commanding His Majesty's Naval Forces, East Indies Station (No.
.67S-E., dated l6th A P rl [ , ^e^7nt which he executed in .86., the Sheikh of Bahrein
« Under the terms of the a & ^ t0 absta i n from any act of aggression
No. 134. or retaliation at sea, and any departure from the
the increased security which ^ measur es were adopted, be obtained as to
more accurate information migh,^ ^ ur . ma inland. In the circumstances, I am to
the condition of affairs on _ w u- A Your Excellency may be-in position to offer on the
invite an yerna^ives whid^present themselvei to'the^overn'ment of India are
subject. The altern Bahrein of an armed dhow A term adopted by British officials to refer to local sailing vessels in the western Indian Ocean. of the class that has, it is
W th \Td~d e b" 'Stly 0 employed -th good effect in ch eck in g piracy and
the trade in arms in the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea, or
(ii) the -inten^by the^atMs r n = of i a f ow manne^^ y
lent from the Roval Navy or from the Royal Indian Marine, to en-ure that
it be only employed for proper purposes.
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