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28- A leading merchant of Bahrain who was a banker, an agent for
steamer lines, and agent for the Anglo-Persian Oil Co., Yusuf Kanu
was a figure of considerable importance in the Gulf region and in
Saudi Arabia. He had a great interest in political affairs, to which
he devoted much of his time.
29. Available in R/15/1/279, 9 Jumada 11 1344(25 Dec 1925).
30. Ibid., 28 Sha‘ban 1344 (13 Mar 1926).
31. Ibid., Political Resident to Government of India, 13 Feb 1926.
32. L/P&S/i 1/195, Pi343/21 (P2494/26), Political Resident to Government
of India, 26 June 1926.
33. Ibid.
34. R/15/1/236, ‘Arab States News Summary’, no. 9 of 1929, Sep 1929.
35. Ibid., no. 2 of 1931, Feb 1931.
36. R/15/1/268, Saqr bin Sultan to Residency Agent, 28 July 1933 (trans­
lation).
37. Ibid., Residency Agent to Political Resident, 29 July 1933 (telegram).
38. L/P&S/12/3710, Senior Naval Officer to Commandcr-in-Chicf East Indies
Station, 14 Oct 1933 (extract).
39. R/15/1/268, Political Agent Bahrain to Political Resident, 27 Jan 1934
(telegram).
40. L/P&S/10, P595/i927(t), P3996/27, Political Resident to Government
of India, 30 Apr and 7 May 1927. Enclosed in P4575/27, 8 Sep
1927. It is interesting to note that, two years later, in a lecture
given to the Central Asian Society in London, Haworth upheld the
policy of non-interference, specifically citing the ease of Abu Dhabi,
and argued that interference ‘would entail control on the mainland
which we have no desire to assume, it would mean an extension
of the British Empire’ (,Journal of the Central Asian Society, xvi (1929)
501)-
41. Lorimer, Gazetteer, vol. 1, pp. 777-84.
42. Ibid., vol. 1, p. 2639.
43. R/15/6/239, Thomas to Political Resident, 24 June 1926, from which
this account has been drawn. A copy of the peace agreement is available
in R/15/1/278, 21 May 1926. The other signatories were Salih bin
Muhammad, Shihhi the Shaykh of Dibba; Muhammad and Saqr bin
Sultan of the Na‘im; and Salim bin Duyayn of the Bani Ka‘b.
44. R/15/1/278, Residency Agent to Political Resident, 16 Rabi‘ 1 1345
(24 Sep 1926).
45. Ibid., Political Resident to Political Agent Muscat, 5 Nov 1926 (tclc-
gram).
46. Ibid., Thomas to Political Agent Muscat, 12 Feb 1927-
47. Ibid., Residency Agent to Political Resident, 24 Dhu’l Hijjah 1346
(20 Nov 1927). The agreement is available ibid.

CHAPTER 5
1 Sec Fu’ad Hamzah, Al-Bilad at- Arabiyyah at Sa'udiyyah (Mecca, 1937,
’ and Riyadh, iq68); Kelly, Britain and the Persian Gulf U95~[^ H.
St 1 B Philby, Saudi Arabia (London, 1955); Amccn Riham, Tankh
ffajd wa Mulhaqatihi, new edition (Beirut, 1972); Hafiz Wahbah, Jazirat
al-Arab fl-Qprn al‘Ishrin (Cairo, 1967).