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I v usual avocations. rJ bey seem to have no clicclc. I have thereforo thought it ncces-
r to writo this to you for communication to the Resident, and X hope the Resident will
Ja.rJjly loko duo nolo of this affair.
A. <5/.
Jj\kutkK A NT-Coi.ONkl S. R. Milks, Officiating Political Resident, Persian Gulf,
from
0,id lior Britannic Majesty's Consul General for Pars, to the Political Resident and
Consul General, Baghdad, No. 342, dated Du shire, 15/A October 1880.
I bavo tko honor to forward herewith, for such action ns you may deem propor to
I Hf port from Residency A cent. Bohroin, No. 83, tinted tako, copy and translation of the mar -
l<t October, wllhdcpooilionof mkiiniluKiuilud Bin Unwin. ginnlly-notcd reports and depositions
' Heport from Residency Agent, No. 81, tinted 27th Svp- received from the Residency Agent at
.Ht Iial,.rcin* Wnffi».g to notice cerium.act.
n,iolir. with donoalllou of NokCoJo ond Owner Mubarak ol Pimcy committed by the Beni llnjir
llaGr. Ulzowadoc. tribe of Ifil-Knlr undor Shaikh Zaeod Bin
Mohammed.
2. Tbo first caso opponrs to have occurred about tbo 2Gth August. On that date a
Ijrxl,riiu Boat Nakhoda Rashid Bin Husnu left Bahrein for the Kutr Const with a cargo, and
ulicn off Zakheerah was attacked and boarded by four men of tho Beni llujnr Bedouins
nlmhnd chased hor in a shoco. The boat was plundered of propoi ty lo the amount of
Its. 300, of which two dollars aud six rupees were subsequently recovered by Sliaikb Jusim
of Klbiddu.
3. Tho second CQ6o cohiplaiurd of by the Chief of Bahrein occurred on the 21st
September, when, uncording to the statement of tho Nnkhodn Ahuicd Bio Keen, his boat
was attacked off Nnjwa opposite Katif by eight Boi,i Hajir pirates, whu bunrded and
plundered it alter wounding two of tbo.suilors, one of whom was not expected to recover.
4. In tho third caso the nakhodn and owner of a Bahrein Bugguruh, Mulmrak Unfix.,
slates that while his vcssol was lying' aground off ’Auuj ho was attacked at. night by 25
ijk-ii of the Beni Hujir who wounded him and three of his men and plundered the \es>el,
currryiug off property valued at Its. J98. This took place ou tho 25th .September 188G.
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Prohi the Secretary lo the Government of India, Foreign llcparlmrnt, to Iht Political Resident
in tho Persian Gulf, No. 04-6'. M., dated the 27/A November 1880.
I om directed to acknowledge tho rccoipt of Liout.-Coloncl S. B. Miles’ loiter, No.
149, dated the 18th October 188G, with enclosures, regarding piratical attacks ou Bahrein
subjocts committed by the Beni Hajir Bedouins of Kutr.
2, With roforouco to your letter No. 342, dated the 15th Octobor, to tbo address of
tlie Political Resident in Turkish Arabia, l nin to draw your attention to the views of
“Ber Majesty's G’ovorumonl in rcforoncolo tho question ol Turkish sovereignty as expressed
m tho corrcspondouco forwarded with tho endorsement from the Foreign Department,
No. 323-1$., dated tho 1st February 1684.