"الإصلاحات في مسقط: الجمارك؛ الموارد المالية، والمفاوضات مع العُـمانيين" [و‎‎٣‎١] (٥٠٨/٦٦)

British Consulate and Political Agency *lS
Muscat November 36th. 4919. Z7 v , r>
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R.E.L.Wingate Esq. I.C.S. ' ' 7
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Political Agent, Muscat. l - [ ^ _
To
Th^a Civil Commissioner, Bagdad•
Sir
I have the honour to refer to your telegram No,*3743
of the 44th, November in which permission is given to the
Sultan of Muscat to visit India proviiii a settlement with
the Imam is first concluded. The G-ovemisent of Inlia has
also feksfcxlElift directed that the Political Agent shoull
accompany the Sultan on this visit.
In view of the present position of affairs it
is ifiapossible for me to give the slate of the visit, but it
is to be hopel that it will be feasible in January# On this
supposition I would ask that a draft programme be forwarded
to me ty the Government of Iniiia as some indication of what
the Sultan nay expect.
I would refer in this connection to a latter
No,*08,0. of the aeth.October 4918 sent by Major Haworth
on the subject of the Sultan's proposed visit last year.
Circumstances have changed considerably since then, and
His Highness during the last year proved himself so much
more amenable to our advice that I would suggest that during
his stay in India he should be treated largely as a guest
of Government.
The Sultan will only take with him a Secretary
and a few servants. I woull recommend that he and his suite
be given a passage to Karachi on an R .I .M. ship such as
the Lawrence.
^ . H «S. the Viceroy will presumably be in Delhi and
^ 7%he Sultan would of course proceed directly to visit His
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