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CONFIDENTIAL.
No. 60-T. Of 1930
Office of the Political Resident
in the Persian Gulf.
I.G.T.S. "PATRICK STEWART",
At Sea, 16th November 1930.

From

The Hon'fcle Liuut-Col. H.V.Biscoe, I.A • i
Political Resident in the Persian Gulf.

To
The Foreign Seoretary to the Government of India
New Delhi.

Sir, P.\5'5
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I have^the honour to forward herewith a copy of
a letter No. 217-C, dated 26th October 1930, from the
Political Agent, Bahrain, enclosing translations of post-
-scripts to letters exchanged between the King of the
Hejaz and of Nejd and the Shaikh of Bahrain, Ibn -Saud' s'
communication was somewhat bluntly worded, and it will beur..*.

seen that Shaikh Hamad's reply was equally blunt.
2. As regards the high handed aotB of the Quoaibi
family at Bahrain, there is a possibility that their in-
-fluence with King Ibn Saud may be declining. They havs
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hitherto enjoyed customs exemption on all goods empor.tod*.bjg;
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them into Hasa. Recently however Ibn Saud has sent} a.-,-;,'
oustoms inspector to Hasa and I am told that he has in-
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-formed the Qusaibis that they-oan no longer be allowed td;.
import goods without payment of oustoms duty and that if .
the King wiohos ±h*n to accord them any concession it must
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take the form of a definite rebate or refund of oiOptoms
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duty to be granted to them after they/have paid.duty' in the
ordinary way. I saw Abdul Rahman (^usaihi in Bahrain.
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