File 1749/1921 ‘Persian Gulf:- Residency news summaries 1921-25’ [‎51r] (116/494)

British, released after a year’s imprisonment
and died in 1919.
ARABIA.
Movements.
Officials. — Major R. G. Hinde, Political
Agent, Muscat, returned from recess in
India on the 6th.
Non-cfficials. —Sulaiman al Baruni, a Ber
ber Abadite from Tripolitania, arrived at
Muscat on the 4th, in a pilgrim ship from
Jeddah. He is an undesirable intriguer
whose request for facilities to visit Muscat
in 1923 was refused. He has the reputation
in Muscat of being a holy “ man ”, and is
being feted by the Council of Ministers and
other dignitaries. He applied without suc
cess to the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. for permission to
visit the Sultan at Bombay.
Health.
No cases of infectious disease occurred
during the month.
Muscat.
Reference Summary for July. The
Shaikhs of Jalaan and Shaikh Mansur of
Maseera have arrived at Sur and are attempt
ing to arrange terms of peace.
Date Harvest. —The intense heat of June
and July injured many groves and the date
harvest on which depends the prosperity
of Muscat and Oman, is smaller and earlier
than usual.
f Bahrain.
Anti-British Propaganda. —A copy of a
pamphlet in Persian entitled “ Mudhalim
Anglis dar Bain al Nahrain ”, violently
attacking British policy in ’Iraq has been
discovered in Bahrain.
K UWAIT.
His Excellency the Shaikh of Moham-
merah returned from his visit to Arabistan
and ’Iraq on the 23rd.
Nejd.
The Sultan. —On the occasion of New
Year’s Day (1st Muharram 1343)—2nd
Bushire,
The 18th September 1924.
August 1924—Ibn Saud sent through the
W ireless office at Bahrain telegrams of con
gratulation to Indian Moslems addressed to I
the President of the Central Khilafat Com
mittee, India, and to the people of Egypt.
Akhwan. —A party of Akhwan from Jarya
(125 miles south of Kuwait) raided 200 sheep
from Madeira (Kuwait Bay) on August 5th.
The Officer of Ibn Saud, who had just re
stored the plunder carried off on April 25th,
proceeded to recover the booty.
The following reports reached Bahrain on
the 10th ;—
(1) A force of Akhwan, under the Com
mand of Mishari Ibn Musa, left
Hail in July for Jauf, to attack
Trans-Jordania. (The report was
soon confirmed officially by news
of a raid on the 14th August on a
place ten miles south of Amman, in
which the raiders were repulsed
with heavy loss by British ar
moured cars and aeroplanes.)
(2) On August 1st Ibn Liway left
Riadh with 25,000 (?) men to
attack Taif and cut the Jeddah-
Mecca Road.
(3) The Dhafir tribe of Traq attacked
the Akhwan at Hafar-al-Atash and
Lisafeh. Faisal Bin Saud was to
retaliate from Subahieh: also that
about the 5th August. Faisal-al-
Dawish left Artawieh to attack the
Dhafir and Yusuf Mansur.
(4) It was rumoured that king Fuad
had undertaken to finance Bin
Saud against King Husain and his
sons owing to the Khalifate ques
tion.
A party of Nejd refugees in ’Iraq under
Bin Humaid, who had tried to raid down to
Safa but failed owing to lack of water,
passed Jahra on the 29th on the way back
to ’Iraq. \
A raid on a very small scale is reported to
have been made about the 27th by Akhwan
from Jaryah on a camp of mixed Nejd
refugees in the neighbourhood of Zubair.
F. B. PREDEAUX, Lt.-Col,
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 Gulffi
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