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■ Dated 17th Deoember 1925.

Did you roqeived my various D.Oo‘. by iaBt'
mail' ? If bo presume you oan anowor by noxt jzp. alow mall ?
Government of India in their telegram 1080-S dated
8th December are cavilling at proposals made in my letter
622-S , asking whether wo are not in danger of going beyond
what io laid down.
They say before anything can bo docidod in detail, a
budget io required , and aok me to l'urnloh boot 8ummary I
oan of Bahrain State budget for current year Can you
do tlilo ?
They aek (a) if Cud tome can be run by Arab or Egyptian
I think moot deoidodly not.
(b) for eotimate of coat of 100 levieo on Muooat
model.
Do you think tlat if nlban oupplied 100 men with his
2nd Indian Officer Nias nil in command , and could arrange
to vioit periodically , oay onco n \uartor , (Bahrain paying'
his'salary during hio aboenoe from Muooat) thio would meet
oaoo ? It would bring muoh-weloomod relief to Munoat
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finanoeo , and coot Bahrain leoo than whole time British v
Officer.
(0) whether we have considered poooibility of send-

ing young Shaikhs to Van Eoo oohool at Basrah.
• (d) for Hamad'0 viowo ao to proposed pearling reforma
!
They desire him to be actively associated with reformsj

not merely to follow paooively (')
(e) whether proposed raising of Customa would affeat';,
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• boot of living and thereby mako reforms unpopular, with
t.hotf worn tntrftrtiinfirt
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'poorer olaooeo for whooo benefit they were m
Trevor.