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CONFiDEHTIAL RECORDS.
Tile Superintendent has shown me a eopy of your
telegram No,395 of today's date regarding the Fujaira-Kalha
dispute. In compliance therewith I am writing the following •
notes which wall he sent you under flying seal through Major
Barrett, I would like to point out that I took no part in the
negotiations and effaced myself when the question was discussed
in my presence. This will explain any omissions or irrelerameie
in what follows,
lighting took place between Fajaira and Kalba on
the outskirts of Kalba during Kamadhan, Kalba was the weaker
side and secretly solicited the imterrention of Saiyid Hamad
him Faisal, Jali of Sahar* and brother of the Sultan* The
latter despatched a deputy to the scene and arranged a 45 days
truce.
Immediately following Eamadhan, the Sultan set forth
on his tour to Sahar and Shumailiyah. This trip had no designed
connection with the Fujaira-Kalba dispute. The programme of
tour had in fact been drawn up two months earlier with my
assistance as I was due to pay a Yisit north to farm 1926-27
Zakat and establish new customs posts in the Shumailiyah. The ;|{
Sultan’s party including myself arrived im Sahar on 23rd Ipril llj
when by a coincidence the Fujaira-Kalba Armistice was drawing
near to expire.
On 1st May the Shaikh of Kalba took 3 the initial
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step. He with 32 followers' came down to Sahar to request the
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Sultan’s adjudication in the dispute with Fmjaira. H.H. nointed |
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out that his*i.e. H.H’s mediation had small chance of success
unless a similar invitation came from the other side. Three
days later this other invitation arrived. It was brought by
hand of the Shihuh Shaikh of Dibba, Salih bin Muhammad, an
ally of Fujaira’s, though subordinate to the Sultan of Muscat.