مجموعة ٣٠/ ٣٣ "الخليج الفارسي، الساحل المتصالح. سياسة حكومة بريطانيا. قائمة شيوخ الساحل المتصالح" [و‎‎١‎٥‎٦] (٨١٨/٣١١)

EXTRAC j 1 i'R()M_VICER' Y * 3 AD D REA'^ J?T_ TRUCIAI- SH AIKHS ^
DATED 21st NOVEMBER, 19Q3»
0Ai 0 1s of the -,:ir8.h Coo£t who are in freaty re-i-o ti o_n
with the British Gove rnmento - I have come here as the
representative in the great Empire of India of the British
authority which you and your fathers and fore-fathers have
known and dealt with for more than a hundred years? and my
object is to show you, that though you live at some distance
from the shores of India, you are not forgotten by the
Government, but that they adhere to the policy of guardianship
and protection which has given you peace and guaranteed your
rights for the best part of the century? and that the first
Viceroy of India who has ever visited these waters does nou
quit them without seeking the opportunity of meeting you in
person and of renewing the assurances and engagements by
which we have been so long united 0
Chiefs, your fathers and grandfathers before you have
doubtless told you of the history of the past. You know
that a hundred years ago there were constant trouble and
fighting in the Gulf; almost every man was a .mrauder or a
pirate; kidnapping and slave-trading flourished; fighting
and bloodshed went on without stint or respite; no ship
could put out to sea without fear of attack; the pearl
fishery was a scene of annual conflict; and security of trade
or peace there was none. -hen it was that the Brit.sn
Government intervened and said that, in the inter*-.* 3 •■'S 0l
its own subjects and traders, and of its legitimate influence
in the seas that wash the Indian coasts, this state of
affairs must not continue. British flotillas appeared in
these waters. British forces occupied the ports and towns
on the coast that we see iron this deck. The struggle