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Mo. 142 C. The Agencyi Bahrain.
Conf idont. ial. 21st December 1929.

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The Political ‘gent,
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Bahrain. i
To
The Ilon'blc the Political Resident,
in the Perniar) Gulf, Bushire.

Sir,
I have the honour to reTer to the question of Shiah
refugees from ty&tif, and to invite a reference to my prede-
cesrors T.2 dated the 22nd November 1.127, and Captain V/atts
reply Bo. I6-S dated the 8th January 1927. My copy of this
letter T 2 states in the concluding paragraph 1 but I do* think
the Government of Bahrain can move in this matter officially 1
whereas it ould ap.ear from the rest of the letter that the
contrary is meant, and evidently a ' not 1 between the'do'and
the'think'has been omitted. In his T I of the 20th January

I?28 and his 1)I-S dated the 21 st February the Resident appear­
ed to reconsider the instructions conveyed in Captain Watte
above mentioned letter.
2. An the matter did not appear to have been defin-
it..cly decided I raised the question, and in his letter 2745
dated .the 50th November 1929 Major Fov/le instructed me that- *
a few recognised Bahrain subjects v/ho did. business or resided
on the Hasa Coast were clearly entitled to our protection.

I had intended to discuss the question with you at Bahrain, •
as I knew of the coming exodus from fyitif, but in the press­
ure of work it escaped ray memory.
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3. Yesterday morning,I had gone to Sakhir to hawk
v/ith ll.E.Shaikh Hamad, and when v/e halted for lunch he-was •
ourprioed to see a
doputfttion approaohing ue