مجموعة ٣٠/ ٣٣ "الخليج الفارسي، الساحل المتصالح. سياسة حكومة بريطانيا. قائمة شيوخ الساحل المتصالح" [و‎‎٣‎١‎٠] (٨١٨/٦١٩)

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so it was in a British India steamer or some other means of
transport lacking that dignity with which his visits were
i orrnerly associated* is Colonel Barrett mentioned in one of his
despatches* the last Re silent * s name who is knov/n to these
people is that of "Cotf us”.
r . ^o revert now to t he' ii-mediate issue. Although, as explained
above, tor some time past there has been some hesitancy as to
one exac b taci?Lities to be demanded it has alivag^s been realised
that a very suitable place-if not necessarily the most suitable
i oul ■. 1 - - r n ha ima h and greater e p has is h s c on se (^uen tlv
oeen laid upon taciiities there than elsewhere and the Residency
-vgent in almost every letter he has addressed to me during the
past six months has stressed the fact that Ras-al-Kh&imah is
regardeo. popularly as a test case. He reiterated this view to me
personally last Rebtuary and it will be seen that he has given
x resh expression to it in the letter of which a translation is
enclosed and he is convinced that, if we enforce our will at this
place, opposition elsewhere will speedily cease. I see no reason
to doubt the correctness of this view. The Royal Air Rorce- as
men tinned in my despatch reierred to above-propose to place a-n
iron barge at Rr s-a 1-rhaimah next month to replace the existing
dnow ir which petrol is stored: I expect to be on the "’racial
Coast nyself when the b rge arrives, and during -y las' visit I
informed the Snsikh th t it would probably be ccmir • scon. If f'-iz
is iollowed by the placing of a petrol tank on Yt s Island I trust
we shall at length have inserted the thin edge of a wedge which
- ..ill ultim tely oo^ain for us the f acilites which we require. I
nope therefore tfm.t approval will he given to the latter measure.
* These actions will go some way towards showing the ^rucial
Snaiahs ttui-i/ we intend to have our own way in the end, but this
might, I think, be further exphasised. I do not eonsider it necess
ary to send any Immediate reply to the Shaikh of Dibai’s letter,
_s I shall oe leaving for the 'rucial Coast myself on tour on
5th I ay in the "Pa trie:: Stewart". But if the views adumbrated above
are