مجموعة ٩/٣٠(٢) "تقارير إدارية عن الخليج الفارسي - ١٩٤٥ -" [و‎‎١‎٨‎٧] (١١٤٨/٣٧٣)

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TRUCIAL COAST
TRUCIAL SHAIKHS
(i) The following were the ruling shaikhs of the Trucial
Coast during the ye&ri-
(1) Dubai - - Shaikh Sa*id bin Maktum, 0*B.E.
(2) Sharjah - - Shaikh sultan bin saqr
(3) Abu Dhabi- - Shaikh Shakbut bin sultan
(4) Uto-al-Qawain - Shaikh Ahmed bin Rashid
(5) Ajman - - Shaikh Rashid bin Humaid
( 6 ) Ras-al-Khaiiaah- Shaikh sultan bin Salim
(7) Kalba - - shaikh Hamad bin Sa f id (Minor)
Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmad (Regent)
(ii) The shaikh of Dubai spent rather more than a calendar
month in April and May in India to which country he had gone
in search of expert advice with regard to his eyes. On the
Shaikh^ return on the 28th of May he was involved in what might
have been a serious mishap to the aircraft in which he was being
flown. The aircraft developed trouble with its landing gear
and was forced to land at Jiwani ivith the wheels up. Owing to
the amazing skill of the British Overseas Airways Corporation
pilot not only was no one Injured but the twenty three passengers
were scarcely even shaken.
(iii) On the 19th of -April the ‘shaikh, of Sharjah went to
India for medical treatment. His cure was somewhat delayed
owing to speticemia following on the amateur efforts of his
son Khalid to give the Shaikh the course of injections prescribed
by his physician. After paying a visit to Delhi the shaikh
returned to Sharjah on the 12th of September.
(iv) Shaikh Hamad bin Sa*id the minor Shaikh of Kalba was with
great difficulty induced to come to Bahrain to be educated
under the supervision of Mr. F.J. Wakelin the Director of Edu
cation. After some preliminary difficulties the young man
settled down satisfactorily in one of the primary schools, being
lodged in the school hostel. On the completion of the school
year on the 30th of June he returned to Kalba for the holidays
apparently very willing to return on the re-opening of the
schools in September. Unfortunately the return to freedom and
the influence of his cousin Shaikh Humaid bin Abdullah undid all
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