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COUFiBkHTlali.
or 1923-
British a#aidenoy and Consulate-General,
Bub hire , 25th August 1923 •

Fro*
The Hon*bis Lieut-Gol. 8 .0 .Knox , C.8.X., 0* l*a«,
political Healdent in the PsthIah OulT.
To
Tbs Political n«oat. ,
Bahrain .

fir ,
1 have the honour to aonnowledge tho reoelpt of
your confidential report Ho . IGo-C datod the 22nd Auguot
on the yubjeot of relations between :?unnl*.' and "hatha at
Bahrain. Your will no doubt hAVS notlos! thut ths mere
entry in your Diary for the fortnight ending the llth Aug­
ust 1923 At onos raised th* '•uspioicn in my mind that tnia
wdfl a political murder and your report now u^der reply

tend, to confirm this first lmpre^cioa. or course ( ir the
murder can be brought home to any partloudofc peraona , that
will be the beat possible solution to a moot unpleasant
alfair , but unfortunately there ic little hope that Buoh a
murder will ever be tr*ood • It neem* ther-.fore a ^uejtion
for oolleotive puaishneat and It will be a oaae whioh would
oertainly,in the conditions or the xiortb-Weat Frontier or .
1 should imagine, in Ira*, at oaoe bo plaoed berore a Jirga
or Majlias 0X re.peotabie perjonp in the country not connect
ed with the oXrendiug or injured communities . Your report
does not ntate delinitely to which village the two deoe^aed

persona belonged but 1 suggest for your consideration, and
still more for that or Saalkh Hamad , whether it would not b<
well to summon a Jirga oX headmen or important villages in
Bahrain, including respectable townsmen cf uuharra^ and Uan-
amah bet ore whom the facts could be played , so far aa known
and they record an opinion on whioh Shaikh Hamad oould pro-
nounoe a