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lt, and now that it to rloh we rejoice
with you, but riches have brought dangero
aa groat an tho poverty of former time a*
While you have grown rioh your Bubjeota

have grown poor, and owl ng to the daoay
of the pearl trade moat of the Bahrain
merohanta have been ruined* 1 am aware
that Your Highneoa io not reaponalble
for their ruin, but when they aee a

family already very wealthy orylng out
for more and more money their diooontont
will increase until it beoomea dangerous*
Laet year there wore attacks on Bahrain
in the Iraqi Preoe, where they eald

that the ShaikhB of this ooaat received
great euma in oil Royaltlea and did
nothing for their subjects* In faat
I had to aek Hlo Excellency the Ambaeead-
or to oheok the bo attacks* This year

when Shaikh Muhammad bin lea went to
the mainland at the Id a merchant Bald
to me "Look, he has bought two new
motor oare, but he has to go to the
mainland to eeoape Id expenses hero".
I do not oare to hear remarks like these

and told him so but 1 am afraid there
are in any who think in this way*
6« It would be very dangerous to
touoh the one third set aside for the

reeerve, for if it ie onoe touched it
/ will