CONFIDENTIAL FROM JUSCAT TO TOREIGN OFFICE DEPARTMENTAL DISTRIBUTION Cypher/OTP Mr. Chauney No. 126. August 7, 1957 D: 7.35 p.m. August 7, 1957. R: 6.30 p.m. August 7, 1957. CONFIDENTIAL Addressed to Bahrain telegram No. 368 of August 7 Repeated for inrormation to Foreign Office P.O.M.E.F. and C.B.F.A.P. Reference last two sentences of Foreign Office telegram No. 1336 and my telegram No. 363 to you, 185 2. The position is that all, or almost all, other leading Sheikhs and tribes are supporting the Sultan, so that his quarrel is virtually only with Beni Riyam and leaders named in Foreign Office telegram under reference, and a few others known to him as mischier-makers whom he excused in 1955. He is determined to get them if he can and hopes that troops will stay long enough to secure their surrender and also the surrender of certain quantities of arms. He put price on Talib and Ghalib's heads when they joined up a month or so ago and upon Suleiman when he bolted from Muscat. Foreign Office pass P.0.M.E.F. and. H.Q. B.F.A.P. as my telegrams No. 21 and 43 respectively. [Repeated to P.O.M.E.F. and Copy sent to Air Ministry, Registry telegrams for repetition to H.Q. B.F.A.P.) DISTRIBUTED TO Eastern Department News Department Information Policy Department Regional Advisers Information Research Department 8 AUG
