File 3939/1926 Pt 6 'Revision of Aitchison's Treaties. Persian Gulf Section.' [‎403r] (241/818)

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OMAN (MUSCAT).
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• Muscat affairs. Tbese offers they declined, and in July of that year'
in i id j^bdul Aziz moved on Gwattar. The attack failed, but a consi-
lerable amount of property belonging to British subjects was plundered.
S^vid Abdul Aziz was afterwards captured in an attempt to cross over
o () nl an and detained in surveillance at Karachi. On his undertaking
to interfere in Muscat affairs or leave Karachi without permission he
110 s set at liberty, and the allowance of 300 dollars a month was paid to
him through the British Government. Gwattar was again attacked in
December 18T3, on fhis occasion by Saiyid Salim; the attempt, however,
failed and Saiyid Salim escaped into Persian territory. He was then
informed that, if he surrendered unconditionally, he would ha granted
the same allowances as Saiyid Abdul Aziz; otherwise the offer would
not be renewed, and he would be arrested wherever he might be found.
He subsequently made another attempt on Oman, was arrested by H. M. S.
Daphne, and sent as a, State prisoner to the fort of Hyderabad m bind,
^vhere he died in December 1876.
In June 1873 Saiyid Turki undertook active operations against
Ibrahim bin Kais and' invested Sohar. Negotiations were entered into
which resulted in the surrender of Sohar and other places on the coast
te Sai^d Turki; Ibrahim bin Kais receiving a sum of 5,000 dollars and
a monthly allowance of 100 dollars on condition of not moving eastward
of the fort of Hibi. In spite of this reverse, Ibrahim bin Kais continued
t0 intrigue against Saiyid Turki, and in March 1874 collected a force
composed principally of the Yal Saad section oi the Hmawis, with which
he attacked Masnaah and took possession o the . fort a " taV1 8
plundered a considerable amount of property belonging to Bntish sub
tts As Ibrahim bin Kais refused to evacuate the fort at the demand
• if the 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. , it was bombarded, and an indemnity of 10,000
-dollars as compensation to British subjects was exacted from the Ya
Saad In the meantime Saiyid Turk! had hardly returned irom his suc
cessful expedition against Sohar when he was compelled to make terms
wUh Saleh bin All El-Harithi, Azam bin Kais's former m.meter who
made a successful attack on Matrah and was only induced to withdraw,
by the payment of a large sum of mone} .
The annual subsidy which, under the terms of Lord Canning’s arbi
tration, the ruler of Zanzibar was bound to pay to the ^ler of Muscat
Majid, who was then Sultan of Zanz ha , obje t^d fte text
to Saiyid Thawami s successor Saiyid Sahm^p^J^ ^ ^ ^
that the engagement was personal to > arguments were not
ground of Saiyid Salim’s alleged parricide Ihese Mgum
admitted by the Bntteh Government, who had -cogmsed Sa^y d Sabm
as ruler of Muscat; but an arrangement was effected by wh.c^“ tel -
was to be paid through the medium of the political ge