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100 PERSIAN GULP ADMINISTRATION REPORT
contended that the correspondence was friendly and personal, and as such
rnitted to him by the Treaty of 1892.
Finally, in August the Wali sent a letter bv hand and requested 8]^,.
Isa to discuss the matter with the bearer, Abdur Rahim Basri, Contractor r,
the Hasa-Ncjd Turkish Post. Shaikh Isa declined any such discussion, but W
fright at his own temerity and spoke to the Political Agent in some agitation
of the probability of a Turkish man-of-war being sent to Bahrain. Capt^
Lorimer did what he could to raise his spirits while pointing the moral,
it required a letter from the Residency to allay his perturbation.
Reference was made to the Government of India, and on instruction,
received from it the Political Agent conveyed a verbal warning to Shaikh
touched in the following terms:—
** The Government of India instruct Captain Loriraer to warn Shaikh Isa biu Ali 11
Khalifah of the impropriety of his conduct in sending replies to the letters of the AVali of
Basrah as he did in the case of Shaikh Khalifah bin Hamad Al Khalifah, and similar
• lit ArticleTb&t 1 will on no account euter strictly to forbid him from violating his Agree*
into any agreement or correspondence with anj o'.bcr meat * with the High British Government of
tban the British Government. 1S92 (14th Shaban 1309) by any further COmsu.ru
deuce with the Wall”
A written copy was subsequently handed to the Shaikh that he might not
be able to assert Ins ignorance of its terms in case of a reference to it in the
fut are.
Shaikh Isa did not have any difficulties with any of his other relations
during the year.
Prior to the affairs of Khalifah bin Hamad, the same Wali had in March
addressed two letters to Shaikh Isa askin®
Shtikli IS3 and the Wali of Bairab.
him to arrest and send to Basrah under
escort certain deserters from the Turkish Army who were said to have absconded
to Bahrain. Shaikh Isa, as in the other case, insisted in writing himself to say
rightly or wrongly that the men could not be found in Bahrain. The corres­
pondence had no further sequel.
The status of Bahrain or soidisant
Bahrain Subjects Abroad.
Bahrain subjects in Mohammerah did not
come up during the present year.
On the other hand, His Britannic Majesty’s Vice-Consul at Lingah wrote, on
6th May 1912, that many of Shaikh Isa’s subjects were coming to Lingah with­
out passports issued by the Shaikh and countersigned by the Political Agent but
provided with “ Tazkarahs ” signed by the Bahrain Persian merchant Haji
Abdun Nabi Kal Ewaz. Further particulars were asked for but were not
forthcoming. Shaikh Isa was approached on the subject and promised, as on
previous occasions, to try and induce his subjects to take out proper passports.
The man, Abdun Nabi referred to above, is known to be in the habit of
issuing “ Tazkarahs ” in this way to Persians in Bahrain as though they were
resident in Persian territory, but it has not as yet been found convenient to
take action against him, pending the introduction of the projected Order in
Council for Bahrain.
As far as is known to this Agency, no Turkish soldiers or officers visited
the Island during the year. As usual,
ZiVbmuriyiA.
K ha inis bin Jabir and about 25 other
Dosiris of Budaiya left for that place in the middle of November to pass the
cold weather there. No flag is flown, neither Turkish nor Arab.
The question of the Customs has been dealt with in the Trade Report /°r
1911-12. During the year under review
. x, , tt. the business of levying customs was earned
on for the Shaikh by the Hindu Arm of Messrs. Gangaram Trikaindas & Co-i
the work has, on the whole, been carried out satisfactorily and there have u°
been many complaints.
The shed for goods, referred to in last year’s report, was completed durinS
the year. It is well built and large enough to shelter a large quantity of goods*
and is certainly a most useful addition to the Customs premise*

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