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'File 9/50 (B 16) The Debai Incident' [6r] (18/492)
The record is made up of 1 volume (238 folios). It was created in 25 Dec 1910-7 Aug 1912. It was written in English and Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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TELEGRAM
From Colonel Cox, Dibai
lo Foreign, Calcutta
Date 31 December 1910.
The following telegram has been sent by the
Commander-in-Chief to Admiralty in consultation with me.
Begins. With reference to my telegram No.233 of
29 December regarding position at Dibai. Shaikh has
complied with 4 demands included in ultimatum, and as
regards items 5 and 6 he has been informed that he must
fully understand that he will have to accept the decision
of Government without question. He is a weak ruler,
however, and experience gained by recent incident
demonstrates that while not intractable or unfriendly
himself, he is coerced by a faction of truculent
relatives, who are strongly opposed to any inconvenient
increase of British influence or domination.
In our opinion it becomes all the more necessary to
locate a British Agent here in order to strengthen our
hold, not only upon Dibai but upon the coast generally.
But under the present conditions it is possible that we
may find difficulty in installing the agent without the
employment of force, and if that should become necessary
it would be advisable to have a force of 1000 men,
including artillery and sappers, ready to be sent up if
the Shaikh refuses to comply with the demand when it is
made.
A simple bombardment would have the effect of
considerably damaging the town and pearling fleet, and
would to a largo extent destroy the value of Dibai as a
trading port, but it would not necessarily bring about
the
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This file contains reports and correspondence relating to an attack on British soldiers by Arab inhabitants of Dubai. The reports and correspondence are mainly between Lieutenant-Colonel P.Z. Cox ( 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. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and His British Majesty's Consul General), The Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department at Calcutta and Sheikh Butti-bin-Soheil (Chief of Dubai) and discuss the reparation terms demanded by the British.
The file includes a naval report of the landing at Dubai by armed British soldiers and seamen led by Major Heriot of the Royal Marines Light Infantry, dated 25 December 1910, together with two pencil sketch maps of Dubai drawn from memory, showing buildings, the shore line, military positions and direction of fire during the attack, dated 26 December 1910 (folios 18-25).
The file also includes several letters in Arabic, mainly from Sheikh Butti of Dubai to Colonel Cox, together with English translations. Among them is a witness statement containing an account of the incident, together with the signatures and seals of 83 principal residents of Dubai attesting to its veracity, dated 5 January 1911 (folio 60).
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- 1 volume (238 folios)
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The papers in the file are arranged chronologically. There is a rough handwritten subject index on the inside of the front cover.
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There are two different foliation sequences in the file.
Original foliation sequence: every folio in the file, except two folios at the start and end of the file, have been numbered sequentially in the top right hand corner, starting at the front of the file. Folios 1 to 115 are numbered in pencil, folios 116 to 197 in red crayon and folios 198 to 241 in blue crayon.
Second foliation sequence: every folio in the file has been numbered sequentially in pencil, in the top right hand corner, starting at the front of the file.
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- 'File 9/50 (B 16) The Debai Incident'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 1r:12v, 13v:34v, 36r:38v, 38av, 38bv, 39r:53v, 54v:66v, 68r:73r, 74v:83v, 84v:93v, 95v:107v, 108v:139v, 140v:164v, 166v:170v, 171v, 172v:178v, 179v:182v, 183v, 184v:194v, 196r:216v, 218r:238v, i-r:i-v, back-i
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