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2. Whether the Bahrain State is to force the clivers of the Downsir, who wero
freed from all debts and obligation to dive for their Dowasir Na-
Jehudus, to return to the Dowasir, or whether the State is to compen­
sate these Nakhudus for the loss of the divers, and the writing of! of
the diver’s debts (a matter of probably two or three lacs).
9. I may add that the Dowasir arc not in. the almost starving condition, which
they nro at present representing themselves to be, as several of them have lately
bought large boats from Bahrain. Also the Shaikh’s opinion ns to the further resto­
ration of their'alleged rights is not held even by his own family, ns Shaikh Abdulla,
his brother, and Shaikh Salman his eldest son, arc not in agreement with him on the
subject.
10. I would also inform you that naturally no provision was made in this year’s
budget for any jmymcnts to the Dowasir neither for another heavy item, i.e., the
payment of Indian troops lent by the Government of India.

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