"الملف ‎7/2 VI أراضي الهبوط ومراسي الطائرات البرمائية" [و‎‎١‎٧‎٧] (٦١٨/٣٧٤)

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D.O.Ko.0/188-6/3(3)
Britiah .Agency,
SLarjah,
12Lh February 1942^
Please refer co the corr^pondence eJidiTi^' witli ir r irnediate
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telegram to you Ko.178 dated 11th February 1942. Its text was:- I
Your telegram TTo.99 dated 4th February 1942. 11
Have received today letter from shaikh of Dubai "
giving formrl assent to all facilities mentioned"
in your letter No.23 d; ued 1st February 19-12 and"
also consenting to str tioning aircraft < .nd
personnel at J)ubai in the s; me terms £ s those
agreed to by Sharjah. Ho question of payment
raised but Shc-ilch stipulates that rifles and
ammunition should be supplied for guards by Gover" .
-nment also that airmen snoula not visiL Dubai M
town except in parties accompanied by an Officer"
and should generally be careful in their behaviour"
townrds local inhabitants. I consider i^hai-di's "
stipulations reasonable in case of Dabf i. al.aikh"
mentioned verbally that he wished to supply • *
efficient guards aid therefore they should, be "
paid well. 3ince he ha.? freely consented to f 11 "
other facilities consider he should be treated "
generously in the matter of guards."
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^* I lj cominnation oi ny telegram and foi* your record I enclose
coj. ies of my letter No.C/163 datedXU. th February 1942 to the 3huikh
of Dubai and a copy of his reply, letter dated 24th Iluharram 1361(i.eo
11th February 1942)•
3. Shailch Sa'id made no difficulties \;hatsoever about granting
freely the facilities asked for and was, as usual, pleasantly direct
in our conversations aboux. oil em.
4. Dubai is a to\vn of about 38,000 inhabitants, a mixed ^opulat
-ion of Arabs,Persians, bedouins and others ^r.d it is visited by all
descriptions of people including a large number of tribesmen from the
interior. The aerodrome near the town :id trie pre.:once of a consider
able number of the Royal Air Force '/ill come to its inhabit .nts and
users as a sudden and staange innovation not free from an element
containing in it the seeds of fright; and, of coarse, the reaction of
the wild men here is to strike out if they are frightened. It was, I
wi.ii.uv, ma inly this consideration which was in the Shaikh's mind when
he rrde tie stipulations in hi.; letter regarding the guards and
conduct of the Royal Air Force. Ke stated that the rifles and
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S.E.Wakefield,3squire,I.C.g.,
Political ^gent,
Nahrain.
ammunition
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