Territorial dispute between Sharjah and Muscat

This file contains correspondence relating to:

• Renewal of the dispute between Sharjah and Muscat after the murder of a Sharjah representative in Wadi Madha. The intelligence officers of the Trucial Oman Scouts and the Arab Assistant of the Political Agent who were sent to investigate were shot at and denied access. The Muscat Minister of Interior has suggested that Sharjah should submit a claim to the Sultan through the Residency (1)
• Question posed by the Ruler of Sharjah as to whether Sharia law is applicable to this dispute (2)
• History of the dispute over Wadi Madha, which may be submitted to arbitration under Sharia Law (3)
• Sheikh Saqr Bin Sultan Al Qasimi's agreement to arbitration of the dispute by a Sharia Court, but on certain conditions, including that Sultanate forces and officials must be withdrawn from Wadi Madha (4)
• The Sultan of Muscat's view of the dispute. He questions why one murder case should precipitate a whole series of boundary claims. It also provides details of the shots fired at the investigators from the Trucial Oman Scouts and includes translated letters from 1938 and 1939 from the Regent of Kalba Sheikh Khalid Bin Ahmad to the Residency Agent in Sharjah, which seem to show that the Beni Sa'ad of Wadi Madha were the subjects of the Sultan of Muscat and Oman (5)
• Suggestion that the first step is to persuade the Sultan of Muscat and Oman Saeed Bin Taimur to accept that there is a dispute and to settle it via arbitration (6)