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all traffic to and from the town. He also prevented
his brother Shaikh Mohammed bin Salim and his nephews
who were staying in the gardens on the outskirts from
entering the town, ills reason for taking these pre­
cautions was the alleged plotting by his nephews to
kill him and seize power. All persuasion failed to
shako the Shaikh from his firm resolve to refuse his
brother and nephews entry into the town. He, however,
was prepared to give them the usual allowances. Shaikh
Mohammed sought the intervention of His Majesty's
Government in the dispute, but both sides were informed
that they should settle the matter themselves. By the
end of the year no progress had been made.
(d) Shaikh Saqr bin Sultan, chief of the Na'im
at Buraimi, blinded and then executed three persons
suspected of having organised a plot to assassinate him
and instal his cousin Humaid bin Hamdan in his place.
The Shaikh is a wealthy man and very unpopular among his
people.

H.3.M.»s Political Agent,
Bahrain.

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