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' Tho Aesridy’,Bahrain, .
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13/2/22, r
t /C. of 1922. . • 1;
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Tho Hon'blo tho poiitianl Resident,
Buohire.

Homorandum.
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Roforonoe your tologram 272 .
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If It would not too much lnoonvonionoo you tp oomo another timojl
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ngroo that It would bo far bottor to postpono tho ooramonial Durban
Tho two roaaono for your ooming would be incongruous and it is
bottor that it should bo undoratood that you havo oomo for tho
opooifio roauon of dolivoring^tho warning.
I do not think thoro would be any harm in your staying
longor than a day in Bahrain,oxcopt tho possibility of tho Bahrain-
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lu foroing a visit.In this connoatlon however,wo havo now gdt some-*-
grounds for « ouitablo roply. As nlroady roportad to you,tho
Bahrainis inado a considorablo domonatration somo dayo bnok.shut
tho Bazaar and forcibly roloasod from a fidawi a mun who had boon
ill-troatod. Thio notion conaidorably frightonod tho ShaikcuSh*
Masa.uont Shaik Hamad to mo to ank how ho should doal with tho.

situation.I doolinod officially to intoroforo but unoffipially^t^ld
Hamad that thoy would bo most unwise to furtiior force tho situation
and should try to find moans of pacifying tho poopla. Tho 'outcome
was that Qosaibi.Yusuf Kanoo and Muhammad Sharif woro asko,d.'tO;
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go with somo roprosontativos of tho Bahrainis, to intoryiow.jjihb..
3haiks. Tho Bahrainis mado several' demands,whiah'''U£tqr^boUt/.two;^>^
daye.ao^.ona a mooting, of all A1
Haaa witl) tho oxo.ptlon of ono,'whloh:;r.f!irrfl4ht^l^^|^^^||^|
Shiahs.Tho ■ShoiJc at first, mixdo aovoralvsjupia.'
ooaaitlonsipuroly With tho

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