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• SftUgran R.
Foreign, Delhi.
Resident , Bushire.
No. 1680-8 . 1
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Dated 8th received 9th December 1923. VJkif.
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Your deopatoh No. 622-s .
8ee Government of India's telegram 0f ukyy’S
14th No . 6j4—S . v . Wi'M
Are you not in dang’er or g6Ang rathecpj|
beyond what 1b there laid down ? Before your propoilu^

oan be oonBidered in detail please furnish beat summary
you oan of Bahrain State budget for ourrent year
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reply to following questions . . *»..
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(*) Now that Customs have been put in order ,
do you not think that they oaald be managed suffioiently
well under the joint supervision of the Shaikh and the
Politioal Agent by Arab functionary Irom Iraq or even •• •!
from Egypt , thus eliminating one permanent British Offioerl

(b) Please estimate the cost of Levy Foroe of
100 Baluohip on Musoat model with and Without British
officer . Possibly High Commissioner, Iraq, oould lend
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I suitable officer for six months . If you oonour he will
be addressed .
(o) Have you considered the possibility of
sending the young Shaikhs to be eduoated at Van Ess's
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eohool in Basrah where Khazal's boys were ?
(d) What are Hamad's views as to the proposed
reforms in the pearling industry ?
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Government of India desire shaikh actively V*
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: associated with measures of amelioration and not merely
follow passively in the wake of ohanges pressed upon
V/hat would be the effeot of the proposed ; ,;.’
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enhancement of Customs’duty on the oost of living ?.
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the reforms unpopular with the • •*.
Would it not tend to make
poorer classes for whooe bonefit they were introduced ?. j
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