"ملف XXXVIII/٥ تقرير عن صور بقلم الرائد ج. ب. ميرفي.، المساعد الهندي، الوكيل السياسي، مسقط. ١٠-١٠-١٩٢٨". [و‎‎١‎٣‎٥] (٣٠٨/٢٨٠)

pmm.
subject - Motimul Sukkumul - was broken into at
noon by t™o men, An Arab and a slare, whilst the
owner was upstairs. The robbers ran away on seeing
the owner coming do-n taking with them # 138/- m cash
and ornaments worth 95/-. hilst running a , t.^.j
dropped ^ 45/-worth of ornaments which were recorered.
Mahomed bin baser of the Bani Bu Ali remoyed the
flagstaff from his house at Aiqa and erecteo a new
flagstaff on ground leYel. On the hist Septemoer,
Abdulla bin Saleh,mentioned above,hoisted Tbn.Suud’s
flag on the newly erected flagstaff. A salute of three
guns was fired -hen the flag was hoisted and one gun
when it was lowered in tne evening*
This appears to be a parallel to the action of Saiyid
Fadhl bin Ala’-i Moplah at Dhoiar in 18 ?o -'hen «..x
latter styled himself as Oorernor of Ohofar under
the Ottoman Porte. c'■ ie-<.•.^ usnhion-^f-
GQTwnmmTrL-?as sailed tu the unde-4r^
, . ^ 4 ^ .i..i-... - -i oi .-o -o a ii -nU 4 ->d<-i r,h -inf 1 ue11ce at—any_
—v»iJ'ir-l. i- -by WT urxw - v -■
-na-rt. n-fh ethe-wreuth Arab4^rrr~xjTWid..
On the Elet September,a ca'Esaanifwm Budiyah ,
(Imam's territory) which lad brought dry dates for
Khimji Ramdas and obtained advances for a further
supply,was returning to Budiyah laden with rice. It
was seized by a party of SWris under one Said bin
Abdulla who was t e leader of the party wuo looted
Khimji Ramdas's boat on the 21st August. Naser bin Ali,
Khiraji Ramdas’s landlord, succeeded in intercepting tnem
before they hud reached Jebel 31 3ed and recovered the
caravan without loss. Said went to the ’"ali and
threatened him that if the Council did not release the
man whom they had arrested at Muscat in connection with
, . x. fua hu'TP’alo^,he would commit further
the looting of the Du & gaiu
mischief.
. , . . vp,. c ., ; . ^ -vrrote to the
i 7 To' , »->op l ed bin ••• ■ -
On the 26 th September ,J I -
t to allow caravans to come to S ur
’Jali of Sur not to arrow