"الملف 35/134 III (A 54) صور: أمراء جعلان". [و‎‎١‎٠] (٤٢٦/٢٩)

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present situation at Sur does not, in my opinio:., oaxl
for any sucn drastic measures. On tne political side tne
proposal nas various disadvantages, while on tne financial
side- tnougn financial reasons v/ere adduced fci its support-
it would not seem to nave mucn to recommend it. mr*
ihomas informs me tnat tne total possicie revenues i.ion. tne
Sur Customs would oe about / 80,000 per annum, of wmch for
tne last 5 years acout 30,000 nas been collected annually,
tms oeing at least as mucn as for any previous quinquennial
period- and pernaps more, m order tnerefore to increase
tnis fi 30,000 to ^ 80,000 it was proposed to raise a force
wmcn would cost tne Indian Government a large sum m laichs
of rupees annually, for at least tnree wnile tne
expense of tne force thereafter would fall on tne muscat
State and apparently swallow up almost all the extra
revenue thus gained, if it was possible and sale tc send a
BTTian force of muscat infantry to Sur, tne question would
toxe on a somewhat different complexion.
7. xtaval and A il Action , if military iorce in tne snape
of sending a large body of troops to Sur is ruled out, the
question of pressure by naval and air action arises- should
need for sucn pressure occur. with regard to air action,
xl we wisn to tacxie tne nanx hu Ali seriously ior any
reason tnen air action wouxd oe needed for tne obvious
reason tnat tnis tribe, except for tne few elements in
Aiqa, inhabits the interior out of range of guns, if,
however, we wished to put pressure on our axone then X
tmnx tnat it might be possible to do this by naval acti4ji‘i
alone, it may be objected tnat previous naval action xn
November 1^28 nad no permanent effect, out I venture to
suggest tnat tnia was oecause action was conuned to me
demolition of a single fort of no particular importance.
To produce tne necessary effect at 8ur naval action will
nave to be in tne nature of a blocnade and destruction of
dhows vwmcn tne Arao values far more tnan ms nousey,
sucn as was successfully carried out at j\hasab.(The politica