'Administration Reports 1925-1930' [‎43r] (90/418)

CHAPTER XI.
Administration Report on the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. of Oman for the year 1925. 1
Personnel. —Khan Bahadnr Isa bin Abdul Latif was Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. Agent
throngliout the year
Slave Trade. —During the year nine Negro slaves were manumitted, of
whom no less than seven were owned by Arabs of Qatar and escaped from tbe
boats in which they were employed. The other two were new importations
into the Triicial Coast. Fourteen Baluchis, kidnapped from the Mekran Coast,
Were also liberated.
Pearl Fshery. —The Pearl Fishery was not good in 1925. In 1924 the
market in Bombay was poor ; consequently fewer boats were fitted out, and the
catch was also poor. A slight improvement Was noticed in the Bombay market
at the end of 1925.
Relations ivith Nejd. —Indications have not been wanting during the year
that Ibn Sa'ud has been turning his attention towards the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. of
Oman. His agents have appeared in the Baraimi Oasis, part of which belongs
to the Shaikh of Abu Dhabi, and have levied sakat and interfered in local affairs.
Communications passed consequently (1) between the Naimi Shaikhs of Baraimi
and the Trucial Chiefs with ^ro-Wahhabi sympathies, (2) between the two
Maliki Chiefs of the Coast (Dibai and Abu Dhabi), and Isa bin Saleh, the
Ibadhi leader in the Sultanate of Oman, who are definitely anil Ibn Sa'ud, and
(3) between the Shaikh of Abu Dhabi representing (2) and a Naimi and the
Chief of Umm-al-Qaiwain representing (1).
An effort made by the Ibadhi Imam and Shaikhs of the Muscat hinterland
later in the year to extinguish the proAXahhabi element in Yanqul, Dhank,
Ibri and Baraimi ended in failure owing to a quarrel breaking out between
the Hinavi and Ghafiri leaders of the Omanis.
Shargah. —The err-Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmad has settled down, temporarily
at least, in Ras al Khaimah, and has not been the cause of any disturbances
during the year. His successor. Shaikh Sultan bin Saqar, has not shaped as
well as was hoped, being evidently under the influence of his father-in-law,
Shaikh Abdur Rahman bin Muhammad bu Shamis, the headman of Hairah.
On the 15th October 1925 an attempt was made to murder the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India.
Agent at Shargah, and his cousin, Ibrahim bin Rajab was actually killed in
his stead. The Shargah authorities acted extremely apathetically in the matter
and made, no attempt to arrest any one. As the result of investigations made
by the Resident's Secretary and the Resident himself, it was recommended to
the Government of India that Shaikh Abdur Rahman, who Commanded the
Chief's armed retainers, should be made the scape-goat and be deported from
the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for four years. It is, indeed, very widely believed that this
man, who was intolerant of the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. Agent's" attempts to influence the
Chief, is the actual instigator of the crime. It was further proposed that the
young Shaikh should be fined and also made to pay blood-money to the deceased's
family. The orders of the Government had not been received at the end of
the year.
At the beginning of the year, the headman of Fujairah, Hamad bin
Abdallan, who bad been in open insurrection against Shargah for the past twenty-
lour years adopted a defiant attitude in the case of a Baluch girl who had been
iadnapped in Muscat and sold to him. When the Resident visited Fuiairah
U ¥ 1 re f 1 US 0 e 1 d C0I ? T e r ^ board and see him, as is the well-established
piactice tor all Shaikhs, Wahs and headmen, even though he was assured of
a sate conduct' After the necessary notice had been given, the towers of his fort
M )m ? r( f ai n ld wre ? ked h y H. M. S. " TRIAD " and H. M. S. ^ CYCLA-
ho nnirl'thi 0 % T5 loi i g rnf . to tlie ^ eaclmai1 was also seized but released when
ne paid the fine ot Rs. I,o00 imposed.
t ! 10 son of Sha ikh Abdur Rahman, headman of Hamriyeh, on the
^ ih Apul made a second attempt, similar to that of 1922, to oust his father The
latter appealed to the Shaikhs of Shargah and Umm-ahQaiwain, both of whom
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