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odor Soorotary....i 1 i Intomal administration of Bahrein:
*roU»ry wt Slulu ..i
)inmittoi).........1J ll, : 6'! Quootion of dispensing with the
services of European Customs Officer.
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FOR INFORMATION.

Sir Denys Bray (compare hie demi-
I official letter to ^r. V/akely on P. 5848/27
H-’bolow, and hia demi-official correopondenco
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with Sir Lionel Haworth on P. Hogged)
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has been inclined to fool that weatomioation
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wao being overdone in Bahroin, whore, in
addition to a Europeun Financial Adviser -
’ir. Howard Belgrave - there is a European
officor in charge of the local arrnod police
and a European Diroctor of Cub toms - all, it
io true, tho oorvantB of the Sheikh, but all
recommended to the Sheikh through the
tiou» I‘ai*■ nt:—
Government of India. He hao been inclined in
tho paet to euggeet that we ahould do well
to concentrate tho powers at present
2877 1000 c:><
exercised by thoeo three officers in tho
hands of the Financial Adviser, and reduce
the nurabor of Europeans in tho State sorvico
to/