File 1749/1921 ‘Persian Gulf:- Residency news summaries 1921-25’ [‎44v] (103/494)

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intends to proceed to Sharkiyeh in res
ponse to an invitation from Shaikh Isa
bin Saleh.
The Sultan of Muscat has credited
Sulaiman Baruni with a sum of
Rs. 1,200 to cover his expenses.
Mr. Victor Rosenthal, of M. M.
Rosenthal Freres, arrived at Jlahrain on
the 26th September.
Mr. Harold Rubin and party left
Kuwait for Bombay via Bahrain on the
8th October.
Health.
No cases of infectious disease occurred
during the month.
Pearling.
The pearl diving season on the Trucial
Coast ended on the 27th September. The
season’s yield is less than that of last
year owing to the prevalence of North-
West winds for three months of the sea
son, the scarcity of oysters and the ab
sence of good quality pearls.
MUSCAT.
SUR.
Reference Summary for September.
Some 40 bags of the dates contiscated
by the Shaikhs of Jaalan have been re
stored to their owners, who were friendly
with the people of Jaalan.
KUWAIT.
Kuwait-Nejd Customs.
The Sultan of Nejd is now trying to
enforce with greater stringency than
ever his prohibition against trading by
his subjects with Kuwait. In addition
to preventing his tribes from visiting
the town for supplies he is endeavouring
to stop the import of goods by sea from
Kuwait to Jubail and other ports in
Nejd. The cargo of a small boat which
recently proceeded from Kuwait to
Misha’b, a few miles south of the Neu
tral Zone, was seized by the Sultan’s
men.
NEJD.
Wahhabis.
News of the abdication of King
Husain and the election of his son Ali to
the kingship of Hejaz was received from
Jeddah on the 5th.
On the 7th, Shaukat Ali, President of
the Central Khilafaf Committee, tele
graphed from Delhi to the Sultan of
Nejd stating that King Husain and his A j
family were largely responsible for the
misfortunes of the Islamic World,
that Indian Muslims would never rest
satisfied so long as that family control
led Hejaz, that All’s appointment to the
throne was therefore unacceptable to the
Islamic World and that Hejaz should be
governed by a democratic, republican
Government appointed by a Muslim
World Conference.
The Sultan wired to Shaukat Ali on |
the 9th, in reply to an earlier telegram,
that the Holy Places would be preserved
from all harm, and that he had inter
fered on behalf of the Muslim World to
defend the Holy Places from foreign in
terference and to ensure freedom of wor
ship and pilgrimage.
On the same date the Sultan telegraph
ed to the Zawavi family at Muscat ex
pressing his regret at the death of Said
Yusuf Bin Ahmed Zawavi and stating
that Almas and the deceased’s depen
dents would be honoured and conveyed
in safety to wherever they desired to go.
The above telegrams were sent through
the Sultan’s Agent at Bahrain, Abdul
Aziz A1 Quasaibi.
A proclamation by Ibn Saud reached
Jeddah on the 16th. It recited the mis
deeds of Husain and stated that Ibn
Saud intended to purify the Holy
Places, that he came not as tyrant but
as adviser—the custody of the Holy
Places being left to the discretion of
Moslems.
On the 21st, news was received from
Jeddah that the Wahhabis were gener
ally in the Capital and that Ibn Saud
was expected there shortly.
During the latter half of the month
several communications were received
from Ibn Saud, which have been trans
mitted to His Majesty’s Government and
other authorities interested. In one of
them he stated, inter alia, that he would
leave Riyadh for Hejaz about the 29th.
A message from His Majesty’s Gov
ernment to Ibn Saud, warning him that
unprovoked attacks on mandated terri
tories would be repulsed as in the case