'File 11/12 VII Muscat Intelligence Summary' [‎4r] (7/70)

SBGRET i
No. 11 ,
IM.’SLLIGENCE SIflMANY PON H.B. M's CONSULATE
MUSCAT
PON THE PERI QD^ ^'1^ R .
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MOVEMEI^S OF BRITISH JWrgj at^ ^ OTHERS.
x r * Stott arrived on the 15 th October to take
over the duties of Onager of the Muscat Branca of the B ritish
Bank of Iran and the middle East from Mr. 0. Ross-Hyder, who
left on the 22nd for Amman.
1 £ 7# Europoan visitors included Dr, Moody and Dr. Bozman
who carac for a day from Bahrain and were received by the Sultan
Er.j,yirea # who is staying for a couple of months at the
American Mission, ' < Mr. ?.W. ' idd of British American
Tobacco Company, Aden, and Mr. J. Mskin . the Senior
Accountant of Messrs Gray Ivtaokenzie & Co, Bahrain.
VISIT CP H . M. WARSHIPS.
!? 8 # -. O 4 .u H i I "f:xJ < 50 h ^ ( I i0ich paid a to ^cat from
the 19 th to 2Vth October. Salutes were exchanged with the
s ore battery on arrival and the usual ceremonial was observed.
As the 19th was a Friday the exchange of calls with the Sultan
was carried out the following day,
Th ? proved a sreat success. Apart from the usual
un of social events, cocktail parties, dinners et cetera, three
games of hockey and one of football wore played, the latter
e^ing the first game of its kind to be played in Muscat for
fnn 7 ThC Vary kindl y gave throe oinema performances,
children^ & r0C ° rd nuraber ^ one ^ek. One was for the school
MUSCAT ADMDTISi'RATION .
^ the PaJcistan Customs Department returned
to Karachi on the 12 th on oomplction of his period of deputat
ion with the Muscat government as Director General of Customs.
In his five and a half years here *ashid has worked very hard
to _ p ^ ^ hc Cuzto™ 5 administration on a sound working basis
and it is generally agreed that he has done Muscat well; his
services will be greatly missed.
'uhamnad Yusuf is at present acting as Director
General of Customs.
200 . The Subcdar seconded from the Pakistan army to the
levies has been found to be unreliable and suspected of local
intrigue, he has returned to Pakistan.
20 i*T, , .°f the throe Doctors recruited for ' uccat fron India
and Pakistan, one who was sent to Gwadur has returned to
-■Karachi on sick leave, with no intention of coning back.
.no, who has been personal physician to the Sultan, is leaving
< e end of his probation period at nutual request. The third
who never arrived fron India, has been informed that hie services
are not now required,
TREATY ' TG QTXATI01 IS.
2°2 Negotiations with the Sultan over the new treaty have
at rAvEA M 0 !r S MA nd t e fin£j - tcxt has now received what
rc hoped to be the oultan's last comments. It should be possible
/to sign