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PROiil. ..... The Senior Kaval Of ficer,Persian "ffUHf
10 The Political Resident,Persian Gulf.
{2 Copies to Coimaarider-in«Chief,Bast Indies
Station).
DATE,
16th August 1928
No. 44.B./32
On 17th July 1928. while the Senior Naval Officer in
H*il.S. TRIAD” was anchored off Ohallah Kalba the Sheikh of
Kalba came off to pay his respects. After the usual compli
mentary conversation had taken pl^ce the Sheikh said he
wished to complain that his neighbour the Sheikh of A1
Fujairah had broken the treaty of peace made between them
and witnessed by the Senior Naval Officer on 12th November
1927. It seems that only a few months after the treaty was
made the Sheikh oc A1 Fujairah allowed his people to go
into the country of the Sheikh of Kalba cutting wood and
damaging trees without permission. This was recently fol
lowed by an incident in which a man from Kalba was killed
by a party from A1 Fujairah. The Sheikh of Kalba is a poor
man with but little property and cannot afford to finance
a war against A1 Fujairah and consequently relies upon the
British Government to defend him against his powerful
neighbour who,on the other hand,as is notorious on that
part of the coast,is a more powerful and wealthy chief
recognising t|p overlord and behaving with contempt towards
the British. ; "'As a matter of incidental interest it may
here be remarked that the affair of 1925 in which the
Sheikh of A1 Fujairah had his town bombarded and was forced
to pay a fine of Rupees 1500,e nded with the laugh definitely
onjiis side for the bombardment did neither him nor Els" any"
mate rial" damage and he forced his poor"neighbour of Kalba
to~ pay the fine.
2. To comfort the Sheikh of Kalba the Senior Naval Officer
promised to return in twelve days to carry him to Shargah
so that his complaint could be dealt with by the Residency
Agent.
3. On 28th July accordingly the Sheikh of Kalba was
embarked and on Monday 30th July at Shargah,Khan Bahadur
Isa bin Abdul Latif the Residency Agent came on board. He
informed the Senior Naval Officer that both Sheikhs had
written letters complaining of each other to him. He had
intended to send his cousin together with a brother of the
Sheikh of Shargah to investigate the matter but the Sheikh
had said he could not assist until all the men of Shargah
were settled again after the Pearl and Date Seasons. It was
after the writing of the letters that the murder of the man
from Kalba took place and the Sheikh of A1 Fujairah had
sent to the Residency Agent denying complicity or respon
sibility but admitting that the murderer did belong to his
town.
The Sheikh of Kaiba