"ملف ٤/٢٢ I التآمرات والسياسة في الساحل المتصالح" [و‎‎١‎٠‎٣] (٥٦٨/٢١٨)

From - The Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station.
At - Bombay
Date - 28th January, 1935. No.E.I.3273 L.
To - The Honourable the Political Resident in the
Persian Gulf.
(Copy to: The Senior Naval Officer, Persian Gulf).
SHAIKH OF DEBAI - INTERVIEW.
At the meeting with the Shaikhs of the Trucial Coast
on board H.M.S.''Hawkins" on 23rd January, 1935, the Shaikh
of Debai for a private interview, which I granted.
2. The SnaiKh stated that he had supported the British
Government for many years and when there had been trouble
between different Shaikhs he had, from time to time,-heeiT
asked by the Residency Agent to mediate. He had compelled
his people (at the request of the Political Resident) to
pay debts claimed to be owing to Indian merchants.
3. His cousins therefore spread abroad the statement tnat
he had sold his country to the British.
4. The Shaikh said that he considered that in return for
his past services the British Government should support him.
5. He asKed that next time there was trouble with his cousins
a British Political officer might attend a meglis at Debai.
Should he decide that the cousins were to blame, the Shaikh
asked that approval should then be given for the offender(s) to
be exiled.
6. The Shaikh added that he could easily call in Bedouins
to help him. If he did so, however, looting might result and
Persian and Indian merchants might suffer damage. In that
event he considered th t the aggressors should be held res-
ponsible and not him.
7 • I informed the Shaikh of Debai that I would report
his remarks.
sd. F•F•ROSE.
Vice Admiral.