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Persians t<*'fratteia'in'thair houses and rafrain txon opening
thtlr stoop*. • Oa'tho afternoon of the 12th news of the app­
roaching arriYal of gunboats was received , end &t oaoi hid • p
good effOOt. qosAlbl t«u ovidontly frightened, as It was repo*
-ed'theV'Ha^weo making effort* to got Uurml loaders to sign a
*Ma6ri*l 'tor'tola botoalf to Sheik £asa.

• V n /.^MnUHaeuftolngthe situation with dhalk flelmea, tht
latter expressed the opinion that the arrest of qosaibi would
be a good thing and treated no to carry it out. When asked why
none of the d haiku would remonstrate with qosaibl, let alone
arrest hist, he admitted that a* Bin daud's Agent, they were
afraid to deal with him. 1 pointed out that although 1 deolded
ooaed in which foreigners were oonoemed , the arrest of persons
responsible for, or lnduoing, breaohes of the peaee, was the
duty of the looal Government, It was apparent that he wished
tae to coder the arrest, thus enabling the Shaikh to exouse theat-
solves to Bin Baud that it was done under pressure fron the
Agency. Zn ay opinion auoh notion, alnoe at that time there
was no gunboat, was best left alone. In an interview with dhafc
Hamad the latter expressed, in confidence, his opinion that <Joe~-
albl had planned the outbreak and had been preparing the Hajdls
for some days for it.
yy own opinion la, that if he did not aotually prepare
the outbreak, Ills action in regard to the watoh episode which
undoubtedly started the disturbance, was equally culpable.