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him to act as Regent until the boy Hamad came of age. A few
had signed this document, but the more important members of
the tribe had absented themselves to Muscat and Khor Fakkan.
Indeed the Sheikh even attempted to send ashore a further note
to the same effect before the ship left Kalba; this was, how
ever, intercepted and retained.
After the return of the Residency Agent onboard,
the ship proceeded for Sharjah where the Residency Agent and
nine of the followers were disembarked at daylight on the 22nd,
The followers finding themselves very unpopular in Sharjah,
returned by boat that night to Ras al Khaimah.
The Sheikh and his personal attendant were handed
over to the Political Agent, Bahrain, on SHOREHAM’s arrival
there on 23rd June. They were duly detained and the Sheikh
was interviewed by the Political Agent on 26th June. On 27th
June he was allowed to return to Sharjah by air at his own
expense. At the end of the month he was still at Sharjah but
was expected to return to Ras al Khaimah very shortly.
As soon as the Sheikh was removed from Kalba all
Bedouin activities ceased. There is little doubt that the
summary treatment of the Sheikh of Ras al Khaimah will have
an excellent effect on the Trucial coast in general where the
full story has been officially promulgated.
The Residency Agent has since visited Kalba and
reports that the people are prepared to accept the slave Barut
as the Regent and the only faction still intriguing with the
Sheikh of Ras al Khaimah are the Naq biyin. Providing there
is no more outside interference, it would therefore appear
that there will be peace in Kalba.
(S.N.O.P.G.)
Zubarah.
4. With reference to paragraph 3 of the May Intelligence
Report, at the end of June negotiations finally broke down.
The Sheikh of Qatar, alleging that the Naim had
broken the peace, attacked them with 7000 of his armed
followers. The Naim put up a very poor fight and after a
small number of casualties had been sustained by both sides,
they surrendered.
The Sheikh of Qatar has ordered them to surrender
their arms and told them that they are free to remain in Qatar
under his rule or evacuate to Bahrain. At present there are
no signs of them wishing to leave Qatar.
H.M.S. DEPTFORD went to Doha with orders to ensure
the safety of British subjects. There, however, turned out
to be only one, a Baluchi barber, who stated that even in the
event of trouble his wife would not allow him to leave.
Actually there was no trouble though at first the visit of
DEPTFORD was viewed with suspicion by the notables as they
would not believe that a sloop would be sent merely to protect
one barber and they thought H.M. Government were not remaining
entirely neutral.
The Sheikh and notables in Bahrain think that H.M.
Government let them down by preventing them sending armed
forces to the assistance of the Naim, though in point of fact
the Sheikh of Qatar outwitted them by the speed with which he
defeated the Naim. They are also very incensed that the
Naim should have put up such a poor fight and now show no
inclination to emigrate to Bahrain.
Though Zubarah is a poor place in itself having only
a ruined mud fort and some indifferent wells, it is of
considerable
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