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Bahraini relations with Ibn Sa'ud, 1920 619

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Japnlm Al Ghlrawl 1« at tMo bottom of It All. 1h la
worthy cvnonr, htn many faulto ouoh ao bolng Antl-
?rlt. lah ot<j• , 1* a dcr.'lly ononj* of Yusuf Kanoo and
would llko nothing «o much an to rorrove him from behreln.
Abdullah, bolng an "putty" In tho handn or Jaenlin,thinks
and bollsvon a* Jaolm dooo. And an Abdullah In Phalkh
lea's right-hand man, the way In easy whero It cones to
putting tho old man up against. Yusuf Kr.nr.o.
Yunuf Kanoo, knowing that he In In the bad books
of Abdullah and .Taoelm, Is anxious for Ills future, on
taken rofuiso under tho oloal: of nln well-known frlend-
ohip for the Agonoy, and vlnlts mo almost ovary day.
Noeult.
One day’Abdullah uud Janelm vlolt no and tell ne
what a villain Yusuf Kanoo le. ’(ho next duy Yusuf Kanoo
dooo the oamo and aaouoou tho (ihalkho of poroocuting hla.
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Then uoinob Win baud's boionhell regarding tho custom#.
Of oouree Yusur Kanoo in aooueed of bolng tho lnotlgator
of the whole tiling* It lo hla way of revenging himself
lor tile R? 7,000/- bueinoue, aa tihaikh Isa said to me
yesterday i nothing that 1 oould say would porsuade the
old man that this waa not oo. Phalkh Isa, on tbp of all,
lo exceedingly angry with me for not ooelng aa ho dooo
and for not taking notion against Yuouf Kanoo. Phalkh Isa
as good as told me Z wue supporting one of hlo subjoots
In an lntrlguo against himself*
Yusuf Kanoo Is, as you know, a proteotod subject,and
far from botng disloyal to Phalkh loa I have found him
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always most anxious to chow hlo loyalty and hla bohavioulf'
and convornatlon, both outwardly and In private hat
to enable
always boon quite oorreot.. The %bovo note le eent/you to
roallso the raothods of tbdullah a Jneslm and the mleerable
nature of one of their many typloal Intrigues.

M«jor,C.X,K.,
Political Agent, Bahrain.
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