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'File 0190 Trucial Coast News Diary' [22r] (43/408)
The record is made up of 1 file (202 folios). It was created in 24 Dec 1946-8 Feb 1950. It was written in English and Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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Dubai, and his son Rashid and other relatives at the
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
.
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,
1 v
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/-
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The file contains confidential news reports from the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. . The reports were prepared by the Political Officer (in winter) or 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 (in summer) and sent to the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. at Bahrain. Each report covers a range of matters and is organised in short sections under a sub-heading. The latest news relating to the following is included:
- civil aviation;
- shipping;
- US and Royal Navies;
- movement of British officials and Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. shaikhs;
- Royal Air Force;
- local affairs;
- anti-locust operations;
- red oxide extraction at Abu Musa and Sir Bu Nai'r Islands;
- weather.
The file also contains some correspondence between the British Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. at Sharjah and the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. at Bahrain relating to Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. affairs.
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- 1 file (202 folios)
- Arrangement
The file is arranged chronologically.
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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 204; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 2-191; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence.
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- IOR/R/15/4/15
- Title
- 'File 0190 Trucial Coast News Diary'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:53v, 54v:203v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence