'14/196 Punishment of the Sheikh of Fujairah. Sheikh Hawad bin Abdullah Sharqiyin.' [‎95r] (201/530)

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DATE*..3rd July 1926.
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SOBJBCI.*SIIUAEION A 1 GO ALLAH AND AL FUJAIRAH
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fron the bonbsrdKeiit of A1
?udairah Fort in April 1935 ,
the Sheikh of that place put all the blame on him for this»
Sheikh Said bin IIanil said that he had been able to
deal inth the situation by himself but that it was a nuis-
:anEe as It kept his young men busy fighting instead of
going off to the pearl fishing*
He put all the blame for agressiveness on the Sheikh
of A1 Fujairah and his unruly followers and was emphatic
in his desire for peace*
He had already sent a report to the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. Agent at
Sharjah,, and that all this happened before the Peace Treaty.
He then related how about throe weeks ago
seemed to
l hd.to the honour to report that in accordance with
your signal 1050/22nd June, I proceeded to Ghallah (Kalba),
arriving there at 0700 on 24th Jull^ 1926*.
Sheikh Said bln Hamid of Ghallah came off to the ship
in his own boat at 0800 and I interrogated him concerning
the trouble between him and the Sheikh of 11 Fujairah.
3-v In reply to my various questionings he stated th^fc
his people and those of A1 Fujairah have always been in a
state of enmity and bad feeling towards each other, and tligf
lately a district, which he called Sur Kalba (pointing to
the date palms along the shore from Ghallah to the northward)
had been continuously raided by armed men from A1 Fujairah,
taxes and tribute had been forcibly taken from the date
cultivators in the villages, and that these had had to be
abandoned by his subjects.
Sie excessive bad- foiling between the two tribes dated
to be very vague about time) St Saiyid faimur (H*H.the Suit®
of Kuscat; visited the district and at the request of both
parties institotgd^^ enquiry and drew up a Treaty of Peace
(Enclosure lo.l)^S^border line between the two- territories
was delineated. The Treaty was signed by both Sheikhs and
the Sultan, in triplicate, each keeping a copy.
I understand that the ‘big-men* accompanying the Suit® , A
Wamir Thomas, included the Sheikhs of Umm~al*~QaiwN{ain and A
Ras-alJKhhlma.
3-v He now eoaplained that the Sheikh of A1 Fujairah
had broken the Treaty, he admitted tb$t there had been no
fighting but that individual robberies had taken place and
the Sheikh of A! Fujairah had‘nt even replied to his prote^hf
also that the merchants of Ghallah are ©wed money by some
members of the A1 Fujairah tribe and heI accuses that Sheikh
of encouraging the debtors to withhold payment.
I asked him if there was anything abouf; the settlement
A. of these
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