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No.316* TEHRAN,
(2161) Docombor 19 th 1908.

Sir:-

You wero ao good ao to authorioo mo by your telegram
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No.349 to accept, oubjoct to tho omiooion of certain words,
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an amendod noto tho toxt of which had boon submitted to mo

by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, in substitution for tho

note of April 9th last, inclosed in Mr. Marling's despatch

No. 101 of April 24th in which Mushir-ed-Dowloh the Minister
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for Foreign Affairs, roaffinned the Persian claim to the
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Sovereignty of Bahrein. As you will remembor Ala-es-Sul-
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taneh made the proposed substitution conditional on tho

Grand Vizier's concurrence.

Tho matter was submitted to tho Grand Vizier in Coun­

cil at Bagh-i-Shoh on the 14th instant when His Harness
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pronouncod against the proposed amendod note in the strong­
est terms, declaring that Mushir-od-Dowleh's noto was an
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: admirable one and that to change it would bo giving away the

Persian case. British activity in Bahrein, and British

pretensions in regard to that island could not bo allowedi
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Sir Edward Grey, Bart.,
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