"الملف 35/85 IV A 11 التحكيم الخاص بمراكب الداو الشراعية في مسقط" [و‎‎٧‎٦] (٤٩٢/١٤٧)

Telegram.
TO
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Foreign , Simla
No: 31
dated 20-8-06
(P). Consul Muscat has apparently not been sent
a copy of your telegram No: S 12 • I presume however
that the decision now arrived at and communicated
to me is Tinal and that at the present stage no
further representations would be either becoming
or efficacious • Or this presumption I venture to
recommend that the Sultan, of Muscat should be
frankly informed by ourselves of the decision
arrived at by Bul.I.'s Government before the news of
it reaches him from other sources. I feel sure
that the intimation would prove more palatable to
him and that his objections would perhaps be fore
stalled if we could take him into our confidence ^nd
explain to him the reasons of state which have led
H .M .'s Goverbment to forego investigation of title
and to acquiesce on his behalf in a list of dhows
which is considered by His Highness to be factitious
and which his subjects will at once perceive to
be inaccurate as soon as it is published .
I would request that the purport of your telegram
No: S 12 be confirmed by mail .
(Cox)