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No. 108 of 1898.

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.

FOREIGN DEPARTMENT.

SECRET.
Extornal.

To
The Right Hon’ble LOUD GEORGE P. 1IAMILTON,
Her Majesty's Secretary of State for India.
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Simla., the 7th July 1898.
My Lord,
Iii your Sccrot despatch No. G, dated tlio 18th March 1898,
Your Lordship expressed a wish to rcccivo any ohsorvations -which tlio Political
ltcsidont in tlio Porsian Gulf or the Political Agent at Maskat might havo to
ofl'cr upon tho coiTcspondcnco hetween the Poroign Offico and Messrs. Pracis,
Times & Co., of which Your Lordship forwarded a copy. Wo transmit here­
with a copy of a letter* from Licutonant-
• Enciosuro No. 3. Colonel Mcado, giving covor to a memo­
randum embodying liis observations. Wo have enquired by telegram from
Colonel Mcado -whether a separato report from the..P.p.Utical Agent at Maskat
is to bo oxpcctcd.
2. In tho samo despatch Your Lordship stated. that you wero awaiting
information as to tho arrangoments mado with tho Chief of Bahrein and tho
measures taken in consoquonco. Tho Vicoroy’s Secret tclogram of tho Gth May
advisod Your Lordship of Colonol Mcado’s telegraphic roport that tho Sheikh
of Bahrein had signod an agreement prohibiting unconditionally tho import
and oxport of arms. With a letter,+ dated
+ Enciosuro No. 1.
tho 23rd Pobruary 1898, Licutonant-
Colonol Mcado had transmitted copies of a Proclamation and of a Notification
issued by tho Bahrein Chiof. Wo pointed^
J Encloiuro No. 2.
out to Colonol Mcado that tho position at
Bahrein is not complicated, as it is at Maskat, by treaty engagements with
other Powers, and that what was required from tho Sheikh of Bahrein was a
simplo and unconditional agreoment to prohibit all import and oxport of arms
into or from tho island. In requesting tho Political ltcsidont to endeavour to
arrango early for Buck an ngreomont, wo explained that tho documents rccoivcd
with his letter woro unsuitable. Colonol
§ Encloiuro No. 4.
Mcado’s lottor§ of tho 30th May 1898 for­
wards a copy of tho Agreomont signed by tho Shoikhon tho 30th April, together
witli copies of tho rovised Proclamation and Notification issuod by tho Shoikh on
that dato. Those documouts may, wo consider, bo accepted as meeting tho
objoct in viow. b