"ملف XXXVIII/٥ تقرير عن صور بقلم الرائد ج. ب. ميرفي.، المساعد الهندي، الوكيل السياسي، مسقط. ١٠-١٠-١٩٢٨". [و‎‎٦‎٥] (٣٠٨/١٤٠)

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r^.ter he ”?rote to his son at Sur ordering hiia to build a
fort at a spot which would at oncu conannd, both tht water
supply of the town and the caravan route to the interior*
Such a fort would have enabled the Sultan to overawe the
Jenebeh and ensure a lar&s increase in the revenue
derived from the customs at Sur. About this time Sulei
man ’s son threatened to shoot a gardener and actually did
shoot a bullock and cut down a date tree belonging to him
because the latter refused to supply him with some green
grass, which he ^as keeping for his own camels.
4 ^ the four sections of the Jencben then combined
and wrote letters to the Sultan asking him to stop the
building of the fort and remove Suleiman’e son from Sur.
The Sultan did not reply to these letters. Five of the
Sheikhs then came to Muscat and placed their complaints
before the Sultan but H.H. turned a deaf ear and they
went away disappointed.
f 1 At length, after'represents cions from several
quarters, h.H, sent his writer Hamad to Sur to listen to
the complaints of the Jenebch and stop- the building of
the fort. No attention was paid by Suleiman’s son to this
order, and on Hamad’s return H-H. did not even take the
trouble to hear his report.
Sheikh Abdulla bin Salim o l the mni bu u>li
no- intervened and induced the Sultan to stop the build
ing of the fort, but the .Tcnebeh insisted on the recall
of Suleiman’s son and said they were quite prepared to
fight rather than submit to Suleiman's rule.
The Jbnebeh then cut off the supplies of the
garrison. The Sultan at once wrote to the Jenebeh
warning them that their attitude,if persisted in,would
only result in speedy and condign punishment. The
Sultan’s messenger was informed by the Sheikhs that
unless he loft Sur before nightfall,hi 8 blood would be a
on his own head.
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