'Administration Report of the Persian Gulf Political Residency for the Years 1911-1914' [‎186r] (376/488)

FOE THE YEAE 1915
105
His Highness proceeded to Sib on the 15th Julv anrl
attempts at reasserting his authority but no serinL ^1.5 SOme feeble
returned to his capital on the 24th July. 10118 fi ^ tln § of any kind,
In the beginning of August the forts of Bidbid ^ q •,
the hands of the rebels, and constant rumours of ti t>a , mai1 passed into
and Matrah were received. plans to attack Maskat
On the 3rd September, the garrison at Bait al "Pal,-: , ,
addition of a wing of the 102nd King Edward's Own rL (loubl e d by the
date until the death of Saiyid Faisaf bin Turid no L^f 1618 ' . ^ this
took place. The usual rumours of impending' attacks wp ™ ai ? y importance
but even the town population had ceased to take them irfn i y re06ive d
The first serious attempt at negotiations took place after ! , any lon S er -
of Shaikh Hamdan bin Zaid al Kbalifah of ACl)habfo. Maskat
It had been noticed for some time that His Highness SaWd T • November,
making overtures to the Hinawiyah chiefs, partfcuMv th^ i been
Hawasinah, He relied too a good deal on ffSly fedin^^ and
have existed, even in his father's time, between himself and S^-w PP T ear \^ 0
SalihalHanth! Accordingly, on the 18th Novembe Sh Jkh m ^
Zaid, accompanied by certain chiefs of the Hawasinan anH ^I? bl11
left for Sib where they eventually met Shaikh Isa bin Salnf ^^" Massan,
remaining rebel leaders refused to join the coXence t ^ ^ The
BuAli, who had been summoned to swell the folC'nf .f l als ?u tlle Bani
Chief, in order to make it clear to the rebels that the Snl+n ' f Thabi
ted both Hinawiyah and Ghafiriyah. The onlv 8 re P rusen -
negotiations has been that, on the 9th December Shaikh h' 0 t J iesG
bi, AH, paid « vWt to His Hi s h„ IfwlS
much honour and respect. This will, no doubt serve to detaph thl w- ^ !
rebels from the Imam but whether, as seems to be honed Kk Tr i Vlya ,
soon be able to raise a force that will win him back the Sam^f /f ss will
mention Izki, seems more than doubtful Cr the present a n0t
enable both sides to think over matters ha. ' ^ ^ n truoe to
agreed that neither party shall break the peace for a periods two months ^
thatSSSottt^ - far relieved
considered necessary at Bait al Falaj and they wfre despatcSto^ f r
the slow mail steamer which left Maskat on the 29th December ay by
till £"2 KrJf Md ^ Ab " D1>bi » M^kal
Jh® Amir of Jalan, Abdulla bin Salim al Alawi, the influential Shaikh of
e Bam Bu Ah tribe, died in the beginning of the year. The Political AMnf
received a letter from the deceased's son AH hi„
The usual returns accompany this report and a very material reduction in
Arms Traffic, the imports of arms and ammunition is
ment of th* Mo w a , sh( ? wn to have rGsulted ^om the establish
ment ot the Maskat Arms Warehouse m October 1912.
lareeJttan 8 !^ 8 0f * 4^. < ? er ^ an . steams hip returns are proportionally much
las? vlat^ those of British shippmg, but are none the less roughly l/6th of
almosL P l-^r \ British shipping returns have fallen so low as to be
egligible, a beggarly ElOjOOO against the B12,9^435 of the year 1912.
R3 84 • va J u , e of tlle imports of arms during the year amounts to
of thp 5 ? ainst i ^ st y ear,s figures of ^83,64485, roughly l/9th. Even
Warphm,™ 8 lm P orted ' a ver y iarge proportion are still held up in the Arms
imnorfprWi. 9 ™? rG l of thG rules of th ' s institution and, in all cases of arms
prirrmrv i . \? re ^ 0use enables us to ascertain with perfect accuracy the
ry destination, after Maskat, of the imported weapons. Of this year's