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Qatar.—Hhe Honourable the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. accompanied by the Poli
tical Agent visited Dohah on 13th April and discussed the proposed visit of
aeroplanes to Qatar with Sheikh Abdulla bin Jassim Ath Thani. The Sheikh
was not disposed to welcome an air route through his territory, and professed
his inability to resist the Wahabis, whose hostility he said would be inflamed
against the aeroplanes.
The Customs receipts of Dohah are only about one lakh One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees of rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. yearly
and the greater part of this is paid as a tribute to Bin Saud for protection.
Sheikh Abdulla bin Jassim spends the greater part of the year hunting
and leaves the administration of Dohah to a Negro Governor.
Climate. —The hot weather was an average one.
In November two Upper Air Observers of the Meteorological Department
arrived in Bahrein to make observations for the London-Karachi Aviation
Service.
The records which they have kept from 3rd November show that the
maximum temperature from that date to the end of the year was 94 * 7 while
the minimum was 54*2.
CHAPTER IX.
Administration Report of the Kuwait Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. for the year 1927.
plbsdnnel.
Major J. C. More, D.S.O., held charge of the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. from the
beginning of the year until the 28th April, when he was relieved by Major
C. C. J. Barrett, C.S.I., C.I.E. Major J. C. More again took over from him on
the 29th October and remained in charge until the end of the year.
Sub-Assistant Surgeon A. C. Malwade, I.M.D:, performed the duties of
Quarantine Medical Officer and Medical Officer in charge of the Charitable
Dispensary from the beginning of the year until the 23rd January, when Dr.
C. S. G. Mylrea, O.B.E., took over these duties in addition to those of Medical
Officer in charge of the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. , which he had already been perform
ing. On 3rd March Assistant Surgeon A. L. Greenway, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.,
I.M.D., took over all medical duties, and continued to perform them until the
close of the year.
Condition of the Country.
Ibn Saud continued to enforce his prohibition against his subjects trading
with Kuwait throughout the year. On the 11th January a Nejd caravan of
nineteen men and thirty-five camel loads of merchandise, said to be worth
Rs. 60,000 and to include fifteen thousand Maria Theresa dollars in silver,
on its way from Kuwait to Qasim, was intercepted before it was clear of Kuwait
territory by a detachment of forty-five men sent by Abdullah bin Jiluwi,
the Governor of Hasa. The detachment confiscated everything, and took the
men in chains to Hasa. On three or four other occasions detachments visited
the frontier and the southern portion of Kuwait territory to enforce the prohi
bition.
When the leaders of the Ikhwan began to return to Nejd after the fall of
Jeddah, it soon became evident that some of them were bitterly disappointed
that the Hejaz campaign had not offered better facilities for amassing plunder.
An increasing feeling of discontent against Ibn Sa ud himself began to manifest
itself. They were much dissatisfied with his idea of organizing a civilized
government in the Hejaz, and his prohibiting them from raiding across the
frontier. Notable amongst these malcontents was Faisal ad-Dawish, the
paramount Shaikh of the powerful Mutair tribe and a veritable firebrand of the
Ikhwan movement, who in 1926 induced Sultan bin Humaid, paramount
Shaikh of the Utaibah tribe, and Dhaidan al-Hithlain, paramount Shaikh
of the Ajamn, to take an oath binding themselves together for mutual support
in the event of Ibn Saud wishing to take punitive action against any of them.
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