"ملف ٠١٩٠ مذكرات إخبارية من الساحل المتصالح" [و‎‎٢‎٢] (٤٠٨/٤٣)

Dubai, and his son Rashid and other relatives at the Agency.
He then called on the Shaikh of Sharjah who returned the call.
66. LOCAL AFFAIRS.
(i) Reference para.59(ii)of Hews Report Ho.8 of 1947.
On the Snd, the Shaikh of A Jinan returned from. Hasfut
after building the tower and posting a small number of guards in
it. He was accompanied by the Shaikh of Fujairah.
(ii) Reference para.59fvl)of Hews Report Ho.8 of 1947.
It would appear that the Shaikh of Sharjah has lost all
sense of proportion in his precautions against what ho considers
to be Shaikh Humaid bin Abdullah’s designs on his life. Hot only
has he employed at very considerable expense a number of
bedouin to man every tower, mosque, and double-storied building
in Sharjah and the village of Khan, but he has engaged and armed
40 Baluchis recently reduced from the R.A.F.establishment.
Ho traffic can approach Sharjah from Khan by day or night without
being fired on? patrols on foot and in Jeeps nightly move on the
Dubai border? suspected spies are arrested and imprisoned on the
flimsiest pretexts; and shots compete continually with dogs,
donkeys, and cocks to make the night more noisy than usual. All
of this because the Shaikh of Sharjah’s very black conscience
tells him that, now that Dubai is no longer involved with Abu
Dhabi, he will certainly help Shaikh Humaid (the nephew of the
man supplanted by the present Ruler of Sharjah) to turn him out,
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if only as a reprisal for Sharjah f s clandestine aid to Abu Dhabii.
Hun^id, for his part, is a drunkard and an opium-eater whose
most constant preoccupation, apart from liquor, is his courtesan
of the moment. It is generally thought that, whatever his
designs against Sharjah (and there is no evidence that he has
any unless they have recently been put into his head by Sharjah’s
obvious panic), he no longer has the resolution or the
energy/-