"تقرير الإدارة عن المقيمية السياسية في الخليج الفارسي للأعوام ١٩١٥-١٩١٩" [و‎‎٧‎٤] (٣٩٦/١٥٤)

FOR THE YEAR 1916.
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chapter ix.
ADMINISTRATION EEPOE/r FOR THE TRUCIAL COAST FOR THE
YEAR 1916.
Khan Bahadur Abdul Latif was Residency Agent throughout the year,
and continued to do very good work. He
Perbom.ei. has great influence over the Shaikhs.
The year happily passed uneventfully
GeiieraL on the Trucial Coast and there is little to
records
The pearl market improved and the 1916 pearl catch was quite up to
the average and perhaps rather above it.
The absence of mail and other steamers was a hardship : arrangements,
however, were made to send mails to and from Henjam by dhow. Trade with
India has to a great extent been carried on by sailing vessels.
Nothing worthy of note occurred in
Ras-el-Khaimah. RaS -el-Khaimah.
The Shaikh of this principality continued to give trouble by intriguing
with various feudatories of the Qawasim
Umm-ui-Qaiwam. Shaikhs. He had to be warned to dis
continue his intrigues on more than one occasion.
The year passed uneventfully in
A ^ man ' Ajman.
The only event of importance in Shargah was the revolt of the Headman
of Hamriyeh from the authority of the
Shargah ' Shaikh of Shargah. This occurred in March
and was due to the intrigues to the Shaikh of Umm-ul-Qaiwain referred to
above.
The Shaikh of Shargah collected a force to suppress Hamriyeh, but was
unable to do it, because the latter was assisted by the Shaikh of IJmm-ul-Qai-
wain and by Bedouin egged on by the latter. The hostilities thus prolonged
and the trade of both towns was damaged and, eventually, the lives and property
of British subjects at Shargah became endangered. It accordingly became
necessary to intervene and the Commodore, Persian Gulf, was accordingly
asked to makfi arrangements. He despatched H. M. S. " Philomel and
H. M. S. " Clio " to the scene, and after some preliminary negotiations, the
Shaikh of Shargah and the Headman of Hamriyeh repaired on board H. M, S.
" Clio," on the 30th March, and made peace signing an agreement before
Captain Hall Thompson, R. N., and the Residency Agent.
The Shaikh of Umm-ul-Qaiwain made some efforts to upset this agree
ment and have a new one made through his intervention, but without success.
The only matters which caused correspondence were the establishment of
a dhow mail service with Henjam (refer-
Beha{ - red to above), and the everlasting question
of the t( Hamal Bashi the individual who receives cargo from the steamers
and takes charge of it on the wharf and distributes it. A temporary working
arrangement has been arrived at, but the question will have to be dealt with
finally when the war is over and a regular steam service is resumed.
In December 1915, the Shaikh's watchman fired a shot across the bows of
a dhow leaving the creek by night contrary to the Shaikh's orders, and
accidentally hit and killed one of the crew, a native of Charak near Lingah.
Considerable correspondence ensued, the Shaikh of Charak at first insisting
that the offending watchman should be handed over to the relatives of the
deceased boatman for punishment. As the watchman was only doing his duty