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No. 1339/2E of 1348
Office of the Adviser to
the Government, Bahrain.
Dated, 11th Ramadhan '48

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To

H. B. M's Political Agent,
Bahrain.

Memorandum
Recently various changes have been under
consideration by the President of the Education

committee, among other questions it was decided
after the expiration of the staff's present
agreements, to make a new scale of pay which
would depend mainly on the educational certi­

ficates held by the master. This fact toge­
ther with the resentment felt by the Syrian Head­

master of the Muharrak school at the appointment of
an Inspector of Education, is the reason for the
present trouble.
A
A week ago, with no warning, ^the headmasters

of the two Sunni schools in Manama and Muharrak
suddenly dismissed the boys, after making very

revolutionary and unsuitable speeches, and then
closed the schools. On the following day the
President of the Education Committee, Shaikh Abdulla
bin Isa, summoned the two men; they would not appear
but sent a letter stating their demands which inclu­
ded