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HOTK OH HY UKMOnAHDIJM NO. 'l&Xo DATRD Vi-8-80.

Olvll Commissioner )
Deputy political Foejdcnt

In order that you may tho more underetund
Shaikh Ioa'e etate of mind In the matter of Ouatome,
I think It la worth mentioning that Ohalkh Ian pute
the whole trouble down to Yueuf Kanoo, the pro-Uritlsh
tnerohant,,hero. This, in point of fact, lo entirely
wrong, rb Din t’aud himoelf told me whon I wae in Huffuf
that it wao the Haena morohnnto nupportod by the houaee
of Quealbl, Daoeain, eto. who had formally oomplainod to
him and had aoked hltu to try and get Shaikh leu to roraove

hie tax on tranehip goods.
Yueuf Kanoo la brought into tho mutter in tho
following way. He got into diegraoe with shaikh Abdullah
about two months baok (eoo my laat diary) for having had
the temerity to speak hie mind too boldly, at a roosting
hold to dleouso the building of a new eohool. He on that
oooaelon xiae badly enubbod for after giving £ 7,000/-
J new
ae euboorlptlon towardo the/eohool^had thle money eont
baok to him by Shaikh Abdullah, with the ourt raoBnage
/< '/
that Shaikh lea oould do without hla money. Abdullah, to
Justify hie aotlon, informed Shaikh lea that Yusuf Kanoo
had insulted hla and w&e endeavouring to moke himself a
bigger roan than Shaikh Isa. Anyway, ao a reeult of this
and other mischievous talk Shaikh loa was oonplotoly put
against Yusuf Kanoo. The latter at tho time and at my
advloe made^ peaoo with Shaikh loa, but did not offer to
return the nonoy. Outwardly both are frlonds now, but in
private shaikh lea is never tired of vlllifying Yuauf Konoc
to do. Krom the number of atorlof and imaginary griev­
ances that Shaikh Isa has against hla, there would appear
to bo a-regular ooopalgn of calumny at work with the
objeot of running Yusuf Kanoo firstly, in the oyss of
Shaikh lie, end eeoondly, with the Agency. I gather that