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Use of Sittra pier by Petroleum Concessions Ltd 159

Confidont ia.l. Pol it; leal Agency ?
Bahrain,
No.C/H-25. 9th January, I960.
(^ i i jaVm9:'.o Vj)

In continuation of tin: cor res iiond ~th
iny lottor No.C/R-20 or 8th January, I encloso copies of
lottors from I.erinitte ond also a copy of 1.ho Shaikh's rc-
ply to my letter.
2. Lormitte has just boon in to see me and informed
me that ho wenV. to see the shaikh as requested by him
to
and had to listen/two hours of complaint against H.M.G.
$
over the Zubarah question. lie Jr. going to send me an
account of his interview. ] asked him whether ho had
' token up the question of the Bi trail pier v.'i th tho Shaikh
ond ho said ho had not,hut that the Shaikh had said If
the Zubarah question were not sol.tied soon, worse would
follow for the Company, Tim Sheikh however aid not spe-
cificnlly state that his action ai out the Sii.rah pier was

taken I-conuso of the Zuharnh .,ih-?;Uoii, hut bermitto, as
you will sec from his letter b0/PCk.5/8939 of 7th January
to me, is convinced that this .ir II.a case, and 1 am afraid
that I am too. I gathered from Lormil.be that at the re­
quest of the shaikh, lie hud not only reported the letter's
(yA grievances over Zubarah to h.i:> Hood Office when ho wont to
A London, hut he also wont to i.hci foreign Office and saw
furlong and enquired about the Zubarah question, ana was
told that it was being lookou into; he then informed the
i
Shaikh of the rosult of his interview. This tends to
confirm what I stated in paragraph <1 of my 1 otter No.C/R-587
of 14th Decomber, 1949 - namely that I.P.C. have been and

nppar-ently ,..
Ills Excellency
Sir Rupert liny, K.C.I.E., C.S.I.,
Political Resident, Persian Gulf,
nahrain.