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Loudon, M.W. 1. 8th March 1923.
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With roferoncc to ray letters of March 18th and May 29th

1922, emphasising the need of taking action to cheok the
tyranny of the Sheikh of Bahrein and hio family over their
subjects, ond particularly over the Shiah community in that

island, I am directed by the Marquess Curzon of Kedloston
to otate that he has recently read Colonel Trevor’s despatch
No,42 S of January 27th laot, (enclosed in your letter
No.P 750 of March lot,) and he noteo with considerable
apprehen3io-* that though a year has now elapoed since these

abuses were first brought to notice, Colonel Trevor states
that "the position of affairs is no better" and that "during
the past few months the oppression of the Bahreinis by the

Sheikh and the members of his enormouB family has seriously
inoroaBod."
2. Viscount Peel will recollect that in my above
mentioned letters attention was called to the deplorable

impression which such a state of affairs in a Mohammodan
country under British protection could not fail to produce
in adjoining Mohammedan countries and particularly in Persia

where, as Lord Peel is no doubt fully aware, an agitation has
for months past been carried on with the object of questioning
the British claim to protection over Bahrein.
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