"ملف 12/15 جولة الوكيل السياسي" [و‎‎٧‎٥] (٤٦٩/١٤٩)

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Conficenti-1.
BcUir ; in.
British xv^ency,
SharJah,
6th June 1931•
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Memorandum /
Reference your memorandum ho.C/361-12/15 dated the
3rd June 1939.
• I have informed all the Shaikhs concernea about
your visit to their respective Shalkhdoms.
3. Has :1 Kir i nah. ’'/hen I returned from Bahrain I spoke
to the Shaikh on 9th lay about your visit to Has ..1 Khaim=,h and
tried to jet a promise from him that he ould call on you on
board the sloop in c.ccord^oce v/iuh the custom observed by die
Trucial 31a ikhs. The Shaikh sara that he war time to think
over the matter and would let me know before he returned to
v s al Kin iiiiiih • On lath i-ay tne She ikli r etui Tied eo hi .s cl KiiaimalJ
direct from Duo ; i and X as not abie to _^et a definite jirotiise
from him. Is soon as I received your above mentioned memorandum
I sent him a letter on nth June referryin^ to my conversetion
with him nd asked for a reply. After sending the letter I heard
that the Shaikh of Has 1 Khaimah was at Dhaid. He went to
Dubai direct from Dhaid on the night of dth June. I went .o him
‘t Dubai and spoke bo him for about two hours/. He said that
he ' mted an assurance from the Honourable the Political Resident
or the Political agent before he calls on the sloops and that he
was ready to go to Bahrain or Bushire to get that assurance
personally. Finally the Shaikh said .that he would be ready to
call on you on the sloop if I would take aletter from you to him
on shore as soon as the soop arrives giving him safe conduct in
the name of the British Government. I tried to convince him what
there was no need for such assurance but in vain. He tola me
Xat he v.ovld send me . . reply* On 6th June I received his reply