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a sum of money to the family of the murdered man i»do*urc in Sir II. -I2S>V
and to give up. the murderers to the Governor of December 10, 1071.
Bagdad.
In July, following,.;the Turkish Government To India Ofllco, July 28, 1072.
complained of tlio.;British .proceedings with regard
to the Island of Bahrein'; ''The Turkish Ambassador
informed Lord.Gfanvijle/.that two years previously
he had made a friendly representation on the
subject to Lord Clarendon, .vho had promised to
institute inquiries, but . that,; owing to his death,
the matter had been allowed to sleep; but the
Ambassador stated that farther acts of Sovereignty
had since been committed on the part of the English,
and that his Government had, therefore, instructed
him in the same fripndly. spirit to make “ representa-
tionsjigainj^cmyj^roj)ciLmc|^.s..QnJantl..bcjongi.ng
to the Sultan,” and he specially ulludcd to the
station "of twenty English soldiers on the island,
and tp the marking out of the limits of the
port.
The India Oflicc, whilst again declaring that the |mli.i Office. July 30, 1872.
Duke of Argyll could not in any way admit the
claims of Turkey to sovereignly over Bahrein,
promised to institute inquiries into the matter;
and the Turkish Ambassador was informed that the To Musum* Pasha, August 8,
necessary inquiries should be made, and that his 1872.
Government might rest assured that it was not the
wish of the British Government to interfere in the
affairs of the Persian Gulf beyond what was
imposed upon it by Treaty, for the preservation of
peace in the waters; but it is, perhaps, to be
regretted that the clause refusing to recognize the
Turkish claim to Sovereignty over Bahrein was not
repeated.
The Indian Government, however, reported that India Office, April 26, 1873.
the acts of Sovereignty Baid to have been committed
by the British authorities were wholly fictitious ;
it admitted that the alarm expressed by the Turkish
Government might probably hava been occasioned
by the survey of tho Bahrein rcofs and anchorage by
the schooner “ Cohstanco/V .and . from a party of
lascars -having been landed, for the purpose of
measuring base, lines on sboreVin connection with
the marine'survey,.-but it declared that no soldiers
had been stationed' on'-the island. The Turkish
Ambassador was accordingly informed that there
were no grounds whatever for tlic statement that