ملف رقم ٧٥٧ لسنة ١٩٠٩ "الخليج الفارسي: تركيا والعدوان التركي (احتلال جزيرة الزخنونية. الموقف تجاه قضايا القرصنة. المدراء في الزبارة والعُديد والوكرة) العلاقات البريطانية مع تركيا في الخليج الفارسي" [ظ‎‎٥‎٠] (٤٩٥/١٠٥)

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Eadaghia to reinstate the said fallaks and remove those who had taken their
place.
The police officer referred the matter to his official superior, who told him
not to obey the Kaimmakam, and some time was spent in the exchange of
letters on this subject between the various officials concerned.
5. At last the fallahs, in whose favour the Vali had decided, incited, it
is said, by Shaikh Naghaimish, and perhaps with the tacit approval of the
Kaimmakam of Eao, attacked the date groves in force, together with the
agent of Mishri, and looted dates and other property. They are at the time of
writing still in possession.
There was a good deal of firing on both sides, but no lives were lost.
6. The foregoing version is that which I have been able to obtain locally.
The absence of the Shaikh at Ahwaz makes it impossible for me to discuss the
question with him, but I understand that Shaikh Mubarak was near the land
in question, in his yacht, on Tuesday night, and that he has written to the
Shaikh on the subject.
7. It is not impossible that the incident may be utilised by the Turks as
a peg on which to hang accusations against the Shaikh, and I have therefore
thought it advisable to report the matter in detail.
On the information before me, it appears that the incident arises principally
out of the dissensions between Turkish officials concerned, and their inability
to control Shaikh Naghaimish, which was evinced in so marked a degree during
the enquiry by them into the piracy on the 7th March.
Extract from Mr. Consul Crow’s despatch, No. 22 of 23rd April 1910, to His Majesty’s
Ambassador, Constantinople.
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Last month Muhammad Bey-al-Mishri applied to the Turkish authorities
in the usual way to remove certain fellahs from his property at Dawasir.
The authorities tried to carry out the orders given for their removal but without
success, and the trespassers were supported in their attitude to the local
authorities by one Muhammad-al-Kanan, who with his followers lives at Zain
on Turkish territory.
The Vali sent the Tabur Agassi with 15 gendarmes to arrest Muhammad-
al-Kanan. This they were not able to do, and were informed, in answer to
their demands, that all the people there belonged to Shaikh Khazal, and were
unable to come to Basrah, and if the arrest were insisted on, the agent of
Muhammad Bey-al-Mishri would be killed in the same way as Kasim
Chelmeran.
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Extract from Mr. A. T. Wilson’s letter, No. 423 of SOth April 1910,. to the Political Resident t
Bush ire.
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7. The case of Muhammad g, Mishri ^ has another aspect. The “ removal
of fellahs in the usual way ” is a guphemi^m for an attempt on the part of the
■ Turks to oust the tenants of certain lands, alleged to be Persian subjects,
! without reference to the Turkish Courts of law, in favour of the Turkifh owner.
It is not stated who gave the message to the Tabur Agassi that Mishri would be
killed in the same way as Chelmeran, if the arrest of Muhammad-al-Kanan
were insisted on. It is strenuously denie:l,d and seems inherently improbable,
that Muhammad-al-Kanan, or his men, would have been so foolish as to utter
such a threat to 15 armed gendarmes on Turkish soil# The story is not
unlikely to be a fabrication on the part of Turkish subordinate officials with
the object of causing trouble between the Shaikh and the Vali.
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