'Adminisistration [Administration] Reports 1931-1935' [‎200r] (399/416)

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tlie Shaikhs realised m spite of claims by*certain Iranians resident on the
™^ ast tliat the move was due to pressure from the Iranian Govern
ment^ that it was sound that His Maiestv’s Government should base their
fleet in the area where British interests were predominant.
7. Fmfc? fry Foreign ships of war.—The French Sloop “Bougainville”,
ilymg the ^ Flag of Centre-Amiral Rivet, Commander-in-Chief, Levant A geographical area corresponding to the region around the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
Station, visited Ras al Ldiaimah on the 11th February. The Shaikh did not
go on board, but met the Centre-Amiral and his party on the beach and took
them to his fort. After coffee and a visit to the suq, the Centre-Amiral
returned to his Ship.
S. Shipving .—During 1935 sixtynine British steamers and five German
steamers called at Dubai and Sharjah.
9. Medical .—Towards the end of the year the Shaikh of Ras al Khaimah
reported an outbreak of smallpox in epidemic form and from subsequent
reports it appeared that the epidemic had spread to Hamriyah, ’Ajman,
Sharjah and Dubai. A vaccinator was sent to the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. from
Bahrain with supplies of vaccine obtained by air from Karachi and Basrah,
and vaccinated a number of people in all the infected towns. In Dubai a
large number of people were vaccinaed by Shaikh Hashar bin Maktum,
brother of the Shaikh of Dubai, who had been taught to vaccinate by the
Medical Officer, Victoria Memorial Hospital, Bahrain, during the tour of
the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. in 1934. A Medical Officer of the Royal Air Force flew
to Sharjah where he vaccinated the entire staff of Imperial Airways Station
(which was isolated from the town) and also a number of people from
Sharjah The Medical Officer, Victoria Memorial Hospital, Bahrain (who
is the Quarantine Medical Officer, Bahrain,) visited Sharjah by air m con
nection with the epidemic.
10. Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. .—Some petty tribal raiding, camel stealing and occa
sional crimes of violence occurred in various places near the Coast, but there
were no serious disturbances.
1. Dubai.
(i) Relations with Shaikh Sa’id bin Muktum, O.B E., Ruler of Dubai,
have been cordial throughout the year and he has been of considerable assist
ance on a number of occasions. There has been no revival of the attempt
made in 1934 by the Shaikh’s cousins to depose him.
(ii) In June 1935 the Officiating Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. (Captain G. A. Cole)
visited Dubai and informed Shaikh Sa’id that he must either recover the
g0 °k had for some time past been demanding
“ardShAa kind of Customs
of the Royal Air Force If d Ath?! an underS to levy dues of
Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , during the same visit, “^^1
any kind on Governmen s Qj.’jj bin Maktum arrived at
(iv) On the 14th Septem er Abdullah bin Jiluwi, Amir of
Bahrain, from where ^^ 1 ^ ^ ^ received a p rese nt of five horses
andkoOO Maria Theresa dollars from the Amir.
2. Sharjah.
interest to report in the Principality
(i) There has been nothing of interest P
of Sharjah. . -RnW nf Shariah, arrived at Bahrain on
(ii) Shaikh Sultan bm Saqar R ^ A ol f he 21st on a visit of con-
the 17th November and left for the m ^ Qf Hasa On his retur-
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