"ملف XXXVIII/٥ تقرير عن صور بقلم الرائد ج. ب. ميرفي.، المساعد الهندي، الوكيل السياسي، مسقط. ١٠-١٠-١٩٢٨". [و‎‎٦‎٢] (٣٠٨/١٣٤)

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was not tie to put sufficient pressure on the .trite
to cause then to make food the loss or to tring
them to account for their misconduct,and they
succeeded in procrastinating and delaying to reply
until the season opened and they could get array
in their tughlahs.
H.H.finally informed Col. Hides that he left the
natteri. in the hands o£ Government and as the latter
considered the continued failure of tne Jenebeh tribe
to cause restitution to a British subject plundered
b^ them injurious to British interests,he supported
H.H.s request that the enforcement of reparations
might be undertaken by Government. To have held
H.K. personally responsible for the loss sustained
at the Jenebelis hands would /ia\e tended still
further to weaken IT• H• s' authority and would have
encouraged the predatory Arabs to continue tneir
depredations on British subjects at E.b.s expense;
whilst the exaction of reparation* from this tribe
wouldion the other haocl xmalx. oe a cautionary
wax'lling to all. Col. ** هذه التواريخ تقريبية • E* ixcideauXj oh'. Po 1 i vica 1
Resident,also suggested that besides the original
amount a fine of 0 2000 /r should be levied on the
Jenebeh,_artly as compensation for the delay and
partly as a pehaltyfor tue ooffense committed
against a British subject.
At first,however,the Government of India would
not comply ^ith the Sultans reguest } claiming that
the repression of crime and the punishment of
criminals was the duty of the Sultan and that in
return for the responsibility which it has incumeu.
in guaranteeing to Saiyid Turki tne payment oi c±ie
Zanzibar subsidy and for other material aid which
had been afforded to Saiyid Turki from time to time.
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