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Bahrain and the British, 1921-1922 G87

The agency
isnhrnln
/O o-r 1922. January 17/1922.

;ub.'nnt. Opproaoion of sab<octa by tho Huloro of isnbrain.

Womorunlum I bng to report that you woro informod by tolegrnph.t
oltuation haro continuea tc ho aomowhat disturbed.
It voul.d npponr that tho ijhnlko, fonrod nomn action on th
,i»rt oZ (Jovornuont In tho matter of tho opproanion nnd laok of ordore
.Halo hioh was complained of by tho Inhabitants on tho oooaoion of
your visit horo. booing that uftor my routm to jjci brain, for oomc time
nothing happonod.nnd no oonmunion tlon w#u« inn do by mo on tho nub loot,
( I folt J.t inadvisable to ovon nontlon that tho mattor wao undor
conoidsration, for should it bo decided by (Jovornmont to tako no notic
now, tho position ould bo tin tollable, if ,nn would happon evontunlly,U

.ihalku found th*t iaoh van tho cane) the Ohaiks decided on their
usual llc.y of porBQontion.Ho other polloy aoorca , in foot,now known
thorn.
nhalk JIahu cad’only ’ont. for ihnik :iolnctn,4 placed in hio
hundn « lottor.snid to h~vo boon written by one noji All bin Ibrnhit
to tho bondman of hio village of Tubll.The letter road " Ao regard
tho Ha 200 which you ova mo. If you do not pay it within throe days,
I ahull complain to Muhnmmud -horif.nnd you will hove to pay tho Kh
Uhulk ;jaou uont mo n mosnngo that thlo wna n gmvo of.'onoe
and impliod nloo that It proved that Muhammad *lhnrflf wan lntorforin
v/ith hie uu'o,1ootn. Tt no hnpoonod that Khan Mahndur Muhnmmnd >hnrif
hira.wlf preoont in tho Joint Court when JJhulk bol.wnnn bwoanht up tho
Mutter. M.3. said thpt ho did not know tho writer.Ho then nont for
Hb.li All oarao nnd assorted that ho did not write tho lottor no it no

**o.He oould not write hlmnolf "nd it \r*n rrltton for him by a moral
Tho morohant sjont for,conflrmod thin A otntod that ho hnd wrltton tl
lottor for Uuji All,but without the words ’Muhammad bharif*. Lator
a third witnoss arrlvod and said ho had read tho lottor to the dobl
lRho la illltnrato) on Its roooipt A it did not contain tho words
oompininod of. It was thoroforo pro tty olonr that tho whole thing w>
1 'fako» onpQoially «B,oven if tho writor hod auggontod that he wo«