"ملف XXXVIII/٤ قصف صور. أكتوبر - نوفمبر ١٩٢٨". [و‎‎١‎٣‎٦] (٣٦٨/٢٨٢)

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J&alan in June I informed him that the Resident would
come to Sur this winter to di&ouss and settle all differ*
In the meantime I naked the
ences and disputes
Xalitlcal 4gent to obtain from the Council their opinion
of the results of the aotlon of the Amirs of Jaalan on
It was difficult to get the
the Muscat Government
Council to undertake this responsibility until ordered
to do so by the sultan but the lolltloal Agent was
MMd/f.rbr finally able to get a letter not only from the council
but from the liultan also.
4• The outlines of the general situation are
he really important issues to us are oar
simple
-tain statements in the letters of the Sultan and the
Council.
.■sur has always been a difficult question for
the ttultam* of t'usoat. Its turbulent tribes have
however always acknowledged Muscat sovereignty and by a
a balance of power and their enmity to the tribes of the
interior the Sultan has always been able to draw upon
one or the other of them to assist him on payment in
time of trouble f and it was the hani Bu All who in 1895
came to Faisal bin Turk!•a assistance when the town of
Muscat was occupied by the tribes of the interior.
Indeed it has been th© Jenebeh, the anomies of the Ban!
Bu All*who have been in general opposed to the sultan.
5. The main points for note in the present sit-
-u&tion arise out of the rivalry of these two tribes,
the Bu Ml and the Jenebeh.
The former are a single political entity
acknowledging as their most important Jhalkhs the Amirs
of Jaalan} the latter are composed of four sections at
Cur namely the M ikhanmh, Jhlalln, niwaris and Aramah.
The Makhan&h and the Araaah, the two main sections, have
hud a blood feud since 1913.