File 1749/1921 ‘Persian Gulf:- Residency news summaries 1921-25’ [‎70r] (154/494)

visit who considered it advisable to remove
the tax as it was perhaps hardly in keeping
with the spirit of the agreement made
through the good offices of Mr. Wingate
between the Muscat Government and the
Omanis. Steps are being taken to have the
tax removed.
Three men of the Bidah tribe living near
Sahara, who were condemned to death on
murder charges, were executed near Fort
Jallali on the 2nd March by order of the
local Government.
Arms Traffic. —Information having been
received that a party of Baluchis from
Abadan on S. S. “ Bamora ” were smuggling
arms, an armed guard was sent aboard the
vessel on its arrival at Muscat on 9th March
and 12 rifles, one pistol and about 1,000
rounds of ammunition were seized. The
Baluchis did not resist and were permit
ted to proceed to Gwadur.
Trucial coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. .—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.
visited the Coast in R. L M. S. “ Lawrence ”
on the 17th and 18th March and icceived
visits on board from the Shaikhs of Shargah
and Ummel Kawain. Other ports had to
be left unvisited owing to the prevalence of
plague on the Coast.
Bahrain .—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. arrived
at Bahrain on the 20th March and received
visits on board the “ Lawrence ” from
Shaikh Hamad and Shaikh Isa. The former
was accorded a salute of seven guns on
leaving the ship and the latter, eleven guns.
Captain R. E. Cheeseman arrived from
Hassa on the 8th March and left for England
via Basra on the 12th. He was very pleas
ed with the success of his trip, as he had
been able to collect a number of valuable
specimens of flora and fauna of Nejd.
Sanitary. —Fifteen cases of plague have
occurred, resulting in 12 deaths : some cases
of small-pox had also been brought to
notice.
Kuwait.
Movements. —Flight Captain Courtney
and two aeroplanes from Basra landed at
Kuwait on the 14th March.
The Pol tic il Resident visited Kuwait in
R. I. M. S. “ Lawrence ” on the afternoon
of the 22nd March and left for Bushire the
same evening after conferring with Colonel
Knox and receiving a call from the Shaikh.
Kuwait Conference. —The Nejd Delega
tion, less its former President, Saiyid
Hamzah-al-Ghauth and Abdul Aziz al-
Qusaibi, returned to Kuwait on the 27th
February, Dr. Abdullah Effendi Damluji
having now been appointed President.
Ibrahim Hashim Bey and Colonel c Ali
Khulqi Bey, Trans-Jordanian delegates to
the Conference, arrived from Basra by air
on the 22nd March.
Foreigners. —Naif-al-Hithlain, better
known as “ Abdul Kilab,” Shaikh of the
Khudhair sub-section of the Shamir sec
tion of the ‘ Ajman,’ who passed through
Kuwait in the end of January on his way
from Nejd to Iraq, has returned to Kuwait.
A. P. TREVOR, Lieut.-Colonel,
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. *
Bushire ;
10th April 1924.
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