ملف رقم ٣٢٠٨ لسنة ١٩٠٨، جزء ٣، "الخليج الفارسي: قضية القرصنة في طاحونة" [و‎‎١‎٨‎٤] (٢٠٦/٥)

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Ko 1418 , dated Bushire, the 4 th (received 12 th) May 1913 .
From -Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Percy Cox, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., Political Recent
To-The Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department,
hononr . contl " u ® tion of m y telegram No. 804, dated 2nd instant, I have the
prompted it “ ° f the leMer from the Shaikh of AbaThabi which
present: ^haikh^H 6 ’ , both . late S J haikh - Tahnun bin Z ^, and of the
present Shaikh, Hamdan bm Zaid, towards the Residency, has been tractable
and satisfactory, and they have done their best to recover a'nd pay up compensa
tion n the case of piracy on a Qatar boat by tribesmen under their influence
and this naturally makes it the more difficult for them to understand our failure
o recover or compensate them for their own losses from piracies by others
The non-settlement of this case has now been a constant source of difficulty for
many years, and I much wish that the Government of India could see their way
Persian Government 6 “ ’ W£ reC ° UpinS ° UrSelve3 ultimatel y from the
Extract from a letter dated igth Rabi II /jj/ { 28 th March igi 3 ) from Shaikh
Jiamdan bin Zaid, Chief of Abu Thabi, to the Political Resident in the Persian
Gulf ) Bushire.
of Taona, about which you possess
your honour. You were good enough
Secondly, the case of the people
authentic information, is not hidden from
to inspire our ancestors with hopes in regard to the”murd"er"ofour subTects^the
budans and the plunder of the property and the pearls. Up to this date we
aye seen no result in the shape of the recovery of our rights from the perpe
trators of this hideous crime. ^ ^
As regards the case of Bm Homeilah and the Manasir with the inhabitants
o yatar Whatever you have desired from us we have paid by force up to this
date. When we pay what has been taken from the people of Qatar, how is it
that what is due to us is not received by us ? We are pressed to pay what is
alleged against us even though it be a trivial thing. We beg of the exalted
British Government to do justice in regard to what they have promised, and God
willing you shall not fail in all circumstances. We thought it fit to state this, /
so t at you may note it, and whatever is decided in your august opinion is auspi
cious and will have to be acted up. * r r
May you remain preserved.
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