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{Jtateaent ofkr .d .B Jlaokie or the
.anglo-Peraiaa Oil Company.

On fhuraday 10th whan the fracas between tne H^jcJ In
end Perslbafooourrdd,: 1 won In tay house next to tho oustcaa. \
Uesrvl n crc-wtl of people rushing past and a lot of shouting; on#
;
of ths servant* told ns that a row hod started and tho Poroi '
were out to kill * Hajdl • Tho servant himaeir was a dajdi . 1
took no notice until tho disturbance increased . On going to th£
window I saw sobs 30 or 40 people running hbout oollooting sticks
and running off towards the Customs House. For the nooeat the
disturbance near ny house died down but shouting then began from
th) direotion of ths baaaer and in a minute or two the disturb­ i
ance again increased and a body of $0 or 60 people armed with lad
-is appeared on the Customs pier. these were Arabs and they set
about belabouring suoh Persian ootliea ao they oould fini. 1
Jaw them beat on© Ban almost to death in the water in treat of
house end another one on the Customs Jetty. desing this going

on 1 went round to Yusuf KaaOO's office to find out whst was
really happening. 1 found the basaar full of Arabe , shouting
and carrying lathis. Inside Yusuf Kanoo's offioe was a Persian
who had been badly knocked about, and who had, I was told, been
resoued from the orowd by Yusuf Honoo and his nephew *haed. there
was a big crowd of Arabs outsido the offioe of '^osaibi and m dead
I Persian was lyinc at ^osalbl's door. ^oaaibl was no where Vo

be soon. 1 hoi just begun to make enquiries as to what was hep*
perilng and had boon informed that the row began as the result of*
an alteroatloa between Abdulla ^oaaibl and iiuliaaaad Uharif aria
ln« out of tho thoft of a wtoh from ^oaeibi which had been
found iu the possession of a psruian. Having got thus fax 1
noticed that the crowd began to disperse as quickly as it oould
and waw the reason for this sudden dispersal was tbs arrival of
the Politloal Agont in Ills oar, and later,on the arrival of the
*»geaoy guard -Vhe crowd dispersed entirely, 1 then aoooifl, onied
tho Politloal agent around the basaar. In the Dasaar w-# found
two