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The four primary conditions were complied with in the time allowed;
as regards the others, the Shaikh replied that he had no other alternative but
to accept them, but urged that they were measures which would make things
very difficult for him.
The Government of India, on learning the details of what had transpired,
were unable to approve of all the terms which it had been sought to impose
and preferred to leave the question of the Post Office and the British Agent
in abeyance until the general effect of the recent incident had been fully
gauged, and the situation had returned to normal. They decided in fact to
consider the recent Incident terminated for the present by the Shaikh’s com­
pliance with the first four conditions required oi him.
P. Z. COX, Lieutenant-Colonel,
Political Resident in the Persian Gulf.

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