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and stayed in the R.A.F. Camp. On the 8th Mr. Wilton
another Arabic student and a member of the Foreign Service,
ari xved at Sharjah by Iraqi Airways.
(v) On the 8th Mr. Eyers, Chief Inspector of
the Imperial Bank of Iran arrived from Tehran via Baghdad
by Iraqi Airways on his way to Muscat.
39. Mo vements of Government Officials.
On the 27th March, Mr. G.N. Jackson, Political
Officer, Trucial Coast, left for Bahrain by air and returned
to Sharjah on the 6th April.
40. Movements of Trucial Coast Shaikhs.
(i) On the 8th Shaikh Saqr bin Muhammad of Ras
al Khaimah, accompanied by his father and brother Shaikh
Humaid, visited the Political Officer, Trucial Coast in
Sharjah and returned to Ras al Khaimah next morning. They
called on the Shaikh of Sharjah before returning to Ras al
Khaimah.
(ii) Shaikh Said bin Maktum, O.B.E., Ruler of
Dubai, is now camping at Ras al Khaimah and is busy attend-
ing to his gardens there.
41j L__Hoyal Air Force.
On the 26th March Air Marshall sir W.F. Dickson,
K.B.E., C.B., D.S.O., D.F.C., Air Officer Commanding-in-
Chief, MED/ME, arrived at Sharjah and left next day. The
Political Officer, Trucial Coast, met him at the aerodrome
and entertained him at the Agency. //. J
42. Local Affelrp. / \
, (i) The Shaikh of Dubai and the peaH merchants
of Dubai have received telegrams from their contacts ^ ^
Bombay reporting that the Government of India have allowed
the entr> of Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman pearls into India
without exchange restrictions. This news was received with
considerable satisfaction.
(ii) Reference para:33 (iv) of News Report No. 6
of 1948.
The Shaikh of Ajman reached the Harasis encamp-