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Copy or a translation of « Jotter J'rom IIJs
Highness the Uulor of Bahrain, tu the Political indent,
Uahiaiu, dated tnu loth December, 1940.

a I* ter eomp j lmunts:
Wo have the honour to acknowledge your letter
Ho.C/l.-44/l dated 10th December enquiring wl other we
will agree to Instruct The Bahrain Petroleum Company
to suspend operations north ol’ Kasht al JarJm.
heioj-e giving a reply in this matter we wish
to enquire whether it* v;e instruct the Bahrain Petroleum
Company to suspend their operations the Aial.lan American
Oil Company will also suspend their activities within
this area.
Is the restriction to upply to i.l o Banra.in
Petroleum Company only or to my. other oil Company
which may l»e going to work in '..lie seas which we cluJm
a row i ui our islands?
Wo would remind you that we claim the sen
Ik.*tween Bahrain and *qultur and wo request Ur t until
our claim is settled no oil company, other than the
Bahrain Petroleum Company, should carry out any opera­
tions tho.u.

Balaams.