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46 PERSIAN GULP A.DMINI3TRAH0U REPORT

CHAPTER IX.

ADMINISTRATION REPORT FOR THE TRUCIAL COAST FOR THE
YEAR 1915.

Tho history of the Trucial Coast has happily been free from events thiq
0ononiL year, and there is not much of interest
to record.
Tho plague, mentioned in last year’s report, as having abated, did not
recur.
The Pearl Market remained bad until the end of the year when it showed
signs of reviving. The coast suffered great inconvenience by tho stoppage of
the slow mail steamers, but the merchants are adapting themselves to the
changed conditions, and trade with India by sailing boat has revived.
The only incident which occurred in this principality was a dispute bet-
, ween the Shaikh of Ras-el-Khaimah and
a*. bis subordinate, the Headman of Rams.
The latter was dismissed and imprisoned by the Shaikh, but was eventually
reinstated after Shaikh Zaid-ai-EiisJi had intervened on his behalf with a
number of the ShehhLns, who captured Rams, and insisted on a return to the
status quo ante.
The hot headed young Shaikh. Rashid bin Ahmad continued to give trouble
in spite of the lesson he received in 1914.
Umm-ulQa’nr&in.
Two or three times (luring the year he
was checked for intriguing against the Qawasiin Shaikhs, and trying to make a
coalition against them. He persistently tried to stir up trouble by intrigues
with the headmen of towns subordinate to the Qawasim, such as Hcmriyyeh,
Eujairah, Za’ab Island, etc.
In June there was a dispute between Shaikh Rashid and tho Ghoflah
tribesmen which led to lighting in which several men were killed on both
sides.
Early in the year the Shaikh of A]man, Humaid bin Abdul Aziz, secretly
sent a slave to Debai to kill his relative
r m *mBa’ Muhammad bin Rashid, who had been
jedding in Debai territory for some six years, since he was expelled from
Ajman. . It appears than the Shaikh was afraid of this man who had a blood
feud against him.
The Shaikh of Debai resented this murder in his territory and demanded
apologies and an indemnity. These cot being forthcoming, he arranged to attack
Ajman, and called on his Ally the Shaikh of Abu Dhabi, to assist Has
Highness the Sultan of Maskat interested himself a good deal in this affair
and made two or three representations on the subject to the Political Agent:
his sympathies were apparently with Ajman. The upshot of the affair was
that the Chiefs of Debai, Abu Dhabi (represented by two of his brothers) and
TTmm-ul-Qaiwain'(who has an alliance with Abu Dhabi) marched on Ajman.
“When they got to Shargali the Shaikh of Ajman came out to meet them and
asked the Shaikh of TJmm-ul-Qaiwain to inteicede for him. He apologised
and paid the indemnity and was forgiven by the Shaikh of Debai and peace
was restored without bloodshed.
Nothing of importance. The intrigues of the Shaikh of Umm-ul-Qaiwaia
star A referred to above led to some trouble with
JJargaa' the headman of Hamriyyeh his feudatory.
This did not come to a head, however, till after the end of the year.
Tho trouble with the Shaikh of Ajman has been mentioned above. Tha
perennial disputes about landing cargo
DcbaL
from steamers and the rates for doing
so oropped up during the year. It cannot be settled, however, until norms!

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