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Vi /(i SyV 21/8/23

Tho HonTbio tho T?o? itieul Rouidont, "Bushiro.
llano randuw. Aliowaneos to A1 Klmlifoh y«

Ono Khalifok J3in Haimd,grandson of Ituhu vud bin Khiilift h who V'uB doport-

od by ^ovarnnont :!row Bahrain & who died lit Itasca, is in receipt of
.i uonthly ullowunuo of Hu 140 frou ->haix Hu*.:iid. Thin young wun is aged
about thirty,is oxtreuoly dissolute & u druiuard. '.bout twolvo yours
ago,at hiu fathers institution,ho proooodad to Constantinople A *on-
pluinod thoro against lliai'.: Rasa. TTo got joi.iu 3ort of to iporury ^inscccxix

pocuniary auuiatnoo frou tho Turks. Tarly in tho war ho waB siixod lip
in an intriguo with ’.Tonckhuus1 ugont horovv/ith tho object of upsetting
3haikxi5asafa rule.'upo<t,It of jourso wuuo to nothing as tho Ooruan
had to loi-ve Bahrain hurriodly.
.•Khalifeh reuontly told 3 bulk Huwad ho wanted to go to Kuwait or a
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ekungo of air^& was poruittod to do so.It now appoars that ho v nt to
KuwaitjMuhannornh; & to King Raisul at Baghdad. Vroii reports roeoivod
it appoars ho eonplained against ".hoik Htuad A tho British (;ovt.<5>

said tho latter had uouplotoly takon ovor Bahrain utopped thoir
allowancos & wero naming arrangouontu for tho wholualo iuportation
of liquor into Bahrain,a thing "haik Rasa had ulways forbidden. Ab
I undo'rstUnd ho has boon drinking ho: vily whilo away on his trip &
waB soon drunk by a nuubor of Bahrain pooplo ,at Kuwait,this was .
perhaps an uny/iso lino to adopt# Ho visited uo yesterday ^ inforuod

no that ho saw King Raisul & the High Houaissionor, to whou ho explain
his position.The luttor told hiu to wait a few days' while he enquired
frov.i tho Politiottl Agont Bahrain,why ho v:uo not givon an adoquate al^lJ
owaneo.Aftorwurds ho wn . -told to return to Bahrain & that his* caoo
v/ould roeoive generous troatuont'. Ho thoroforo douandod an infers?oo
of allovmneo. I roforrod hi:.) to shaik nuaadx . Tho latter hov/ovor
tolls uo ho is a wouploto wastrel «*, ho considers hiu ganorously
truatod as it is. Ho does nothing oxcopt loaf & drink.