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Turkish interests and Persian claims, 1906-1909 399

(Copy),

India 0 f t i o o,

20th U*y 1909,
Sir,

I am diroctod by Viooount Morloy to enclose a oopy

of a tolegrom from the Viceroy ao to the action of the

local Turkioh authoritieo at OJair in oooupying the Is­

land of Zokhnuniyah, which is claimed by the Sheikh of
fa
Bahrein. It will bo oboorved that copies of correopond-
A.
enoe are being sent by mail.

An extract from the Persian Gulf Gazetteer giving

the available information ao .to the island is enclosed I

together with extracts relating to the Dowaslr tribe.

Lord Uorley recognises the objections, in the pre­

sent phaso of the political situation in Turkey, to ma­

king representations of a controversial nature to the

Ottoman Government. But the Turkish occupation of the

island raises both the question of our protectorate over

Bahrein and of the limits of Turkish Jurisdiction on tho

Katr Coast. In view of the ooneoquenoea that may follow

on any acquiescence on our part in Turkish encroaohments

Lord Uorley oeo||o no alternative to at onoe addressing
the Porte on the subject.

As- regards the form of the representations to be

made Lord Uorley would suggest for Sir E. Grey*o consi­
deration