"14/196 معاقبة شيخ الفجيرة. الشيخ حمد بن عبد الله الشرقي." [و‎‎١‎١‎٠] (٥٣٠/٢٣٥)

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Shaifch Sultan bin SaqayiRul«n of Sbarpafe
To - The Hon 1 ble Lt-Oolonel F.B.PridQaux, C.S.T., O.I.S.,
Political Rsaidert, Persian Gulf, Busbire
Dated IPtb Rabi I, 1345 (=POtb September 1926).
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I haYe the honour to state that in a letter dated the 17th
Zil-Hej.leh 1344 (=25/6/26) I have informed Shan Bahadur Isa bin
Abdul Latif, H.M’.s Residency ^erent, Sharffah, regarding the affair
of my cousin Shaikh Said bin Hamad of Salba and the'transgressions
made on him by Hamad bin Abdullah al Sharqij Shan Bahadur tsa have
rot elver me any renly as yet.
Hamad bin Abdullah has until now hot ceased creating disturbancesiji 1
and as it arrears he does not seem to like Shaikh Said bin Hamad
to remain in Kalba although he is one of our subjects since a lore:
time avo.
Shaikh Said bin Hamad has now come to me seeking my assistance
In his case and requests redemption from the difficult state of
affairs in which he is involved by the said BaLad bin Abdullah. I
carrot but to take up this case with a view to reinstate Shaikh
Said in his home namely Xalba. I have therefore resolved to send,
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at the^erd of the divirv season, one of ray brothers with some
Bedouins on an expedition to Xalba. I request Your Honour to vrant
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me rermission to send some foodstuffs and some soldiers in three
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sailing boats to Kalba by the sea route. I cannot send these by
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lard because the Shuhuhs would interfere and block/the ways by
occupying the hills on the way.
Althou.vh the Sbububs are tb© subjects of H.H.the Sultan of Muscats
yet they quarrel with ray subjects and fieht avainst us. They did so
in the time of my late father when the Hon*hie sir Percy Cox was
Political Resident in the Persian Gulf? they helped / at that time /
Hamad bin Abdullah to fight ray father and happened what happened
then.
In sfiabar 1321 (=October-Hovember 1903) a mention was made
e bout them in the end of a sneech delivered by H.E. Lord Curzon to.
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the effect that a part of the Coast known as the Batinah situated
on the other side of the Oman peninsula is being ruled by the
Chief of the Qawasims, but certain individuals,oppose his