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'File 9/50 (B 16) The Debai Incident' [98r] (206/492)
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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16
No. 3 3 Of 1911.
Bushire i9ii # ^
To
Sheikh Butti bin Soheil
Sheikh of Debai.
A.C.
1 have duly receised your letter of 3rd Moharrum (5th
January) and have uikieratood itf contents.
x too was sorry that owing to the bad weather which
came on and to the receipt of urgent telegrams from Buahire
in connection with affairs here I was not able to remain and
-ave another talk with you after you had reconsidered the
position and had expressed your readiness as far as you
yourself were concerned to comply with the^conditions im-
A.
posed upon you.
1 should have been gratified to receive your present
letter and io read the sentiments of deference to Government
which, you express therein, if you had not enclosed with it
a so-called "ishteshad" contaning what you know very well
to be an offensive and mandacious account of what happened
on 24th December. But let that pass. The "ishteshad" is
not worth discussing. I wish rather to speak of matters
concerning the future of your port and^self.
A
Firstlyas regards the tide-pole. I fully explained to
you it is simply for temporary purr)Oses / for the use o*' the
boat of His Majesty's ship on duty at your port. Neither
t
you nor your subjects need have^least apprehension with regard
Secondly, with regard to the telegraph and the post
office and the British Agent. The installation of the te
legraph is provided for in the Treaty which binds you. It
was consequently not possible that you should say W I will
not have it". Neither was it sensible cr becoming for you to
say "I will not have the Post Office and 1 will not have a
British Officer here as Agent of Government ,! .
But the language you use in your present letter is
altogether different and it gives me the strong hope that
to it. It will be taken away when the ship leaves.
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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)
- Arrangement
The papers in the file are arranged chronologically. There is a rough handwritten subject index on the inside of the front cover.
- Physical characteristics
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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