ملف ١٧٤٩\ ١٩٢١ "الخليج الفارسي:- ملخصات إخبارية للمقيمية البريطانية ١٩٢١-١٩٢٥" [ظ‎‎١‎٢‎٧] (٤٩٤/٢٦٩)

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Hamriyak boat& Es, 6,000.
The Za’ab Island ard Eas-el-Khaimek boats from Es, 7,000 to
Es. 10,000.
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Bajirain .—Negotiations are in progress with a view to obtaining written
consent from the Euler for the establishment of a company for supply of
electric power and water to Manameb Town. Several Companies have be
come interested but it is not desired to encourage them to send experts till
every possible source of delay has been removed.
The Heir-Apparent has agreed to take energetic steps this cold weather
to improve the roads throughout the Island of Manameh and has asked the
Political Agent to assist with advice and a labour scheme.
Kuwait.— On the 2Hk September a party of Ikhwan, consisting of 300
camels and 50 horsemen under Ibn Ashwan, arrived at Subaihiyah and camped
there, ostensibly to prevent raids from the north.
On the following day a small party of ’Awazim, who were returning to
their tribe from Kuwait, were held up by them and asked what they had been
doing in Kuwait in contravention of Ibn Saud ! s orders. They replied that
they had not been in for the purpose of trade at all but merely to collect some
debts. They were told that that was no excuse, as Ibn Sand’s orders were
perfectly definite and Najd tribesmen were forbidden to enter the town for any
purpose whatsoever. Their money and camels were confiscated and the men
returned to Kuwait on foot. It is thought in Kuwait that Ibn Saud’s real
. object in establishing this post at Subaihiyah is to enforce his orders regarding
trading with the town.
The Kuwait pearling fleet, which was an extremely small one this year
and only numbered about 225 boats, returned during the week. The season
opened badly as regards the catch but improved later, and was considerably
better on the whole than that of the two previous years. The market has also
improved.
A consignment of eight rifles and some ammunition was detected being
smuggled from fne town in a small sailing boat belonging to a Persian s^4led^<t
in Kuwait. The Sheikh confiscated the boat, in addition to the arm^andf* :
imprisoned the owner and Nakhuda. ~
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SGP!, Delti—XI—215(S)—7.12-22—17