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330 Records of Bahrain
nnnf idnntin ]._i The .' gcncy, Bahrain.
I5th January 1930.
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Political -gent, Bahrain.
To
The Hon'hie T.t.Col. K.V.Biscoe I.A.
Political Resident, Persian Gulf.

Sir
I have the honour to state that on my return from
Pushire, I found that the question of the protection of Bahar-
na at tyutif had. ta5:en an acute form. *
2. It will he remembered that I had given a letter
of good offices to a certain genuine Bahraini, one Ahmed bin

Abbas, v/ho had not been interfrereo with, but who feared that
he might be moisted. Piroctly I returned I v/as told tjmt
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when he gave the letter to the Amir, the latter had ordered
him to be thrown into prison, saying * Let the person who is­
sued the letter come and release you. i
3. Another case has just occurred, One I'ahsera bin
llnji Ibrahim, a Bahrani born in 1'anamah and resident here,
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v/ent over to tyitif on a Bahrain pass, He was forced to taxc
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out a Nejd pass describing him as a Nejd subject, and he was
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also forced to pay a contribution of 60/- Re as a contribu­
tion to the Jihad. He has no property in tyatif, but owns a
mortgage over n. house in which he Keeps an Iraqi v/ife. The

= fyitif authorities refuse to allow her to leave Qatif and re­
turn v/ith her husband, to Bahrain.
4. In each case we have only heard one side of. the
! question, but there appears little doubt that the factsy;are.
as stated, and the action of the Nejd.authorities has roused •
the greatest resentment in Bahrain.
H.E.Shaikh Hamad's first i •

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