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interest to do so sinco political trouble of ibis kind
was apt to sproad from ono country to another. King
Saud replied with the usual stream of generalities
about his love for Bahrain and tho al Khalifah, with

an incidental referonco to his efforts to porsuado
tho Arab Loaguo tp adopt a strong attitudo in resisting
tho Persian claims with regard to Bahrain. I offered
to show him in a general v/ay on the chart what tho
proposals signified, but he asked mo to deal with
Yusuf Yasin at any rate in tho first instance.
0. At a mooting immediately following this audience

I presented to Yusuf Yasin a chart on which had been
plotted tho line which we wished to obtain as tho
sor-bed frontier between Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. This
started from tho mid-point of tho one fathom patch at
Fasht bu Saaj'a, went southwards from there to join tho
Saudi median line (based on tho sketch map enclosed
in my letter to Mr. Samuel 1007/83/54 of August 12
1051), following that lino until it reached point 5;

from there it wont straight to tho northern point of
the northern Baina, through that island and then straight
to the northern point of tho southern Baina island,
through tho middle of that and thon straight to point 10
on tho Saudi median line. In reply to Shaikh Yasin's
enquiries about what happened to tho lino north of Fasht
be. Jraf . T said that if tho Saudis wantod tho llennio
;:h j:,. and tho settlement was otherwise satisfactory wo
v-ru'l.d bo ready to concede this. In that caso tho lino

would go oast from Fasht bu Saafa leaving llennio shoal
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