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D.O. No. 484-S.
Tho Res idonoy,
BuBhire, 24th August 192

)4y dear Latimer
Please refer to your D.O. letter No. 36-51, dated
tho 2Bth July 1924 In whioh you suggost that wo may ho
treating Bahrain too muoh on tho llnoo of an Indian Native
Stato.and warn me that we muot not proceed further or factor
than we oan oarry the Shaikh whole-heartedly with uo.

1 will hoar thie in mind and will look into matters
carefully whon I visit Bahrain - prohahly noxt Ootohor.
Shaikh Hamad, as you know, paid mo a brief vioit
last month, when ho spontaneously spoko of his groat truot in
and love and admiration <Jor Daly. I obtained the improso-
-ion at our interview that he whole-hear todly approves of the

four ohiof reforms which are under weigh, i.e. in the Customs
Administration, the Municipal Sanitation, tho Rovonuo Settlo-
-ment whioh will so muoh ameliorate the lot of the Shia
oultivaldrs, and tho Pearling whioh will emanoipato so many
divers, lnoluding a majority of nogrooo, whose livoo at

present are harder than thooo of slaves.
I oxpeot that you are receiving instalments of tho
now edition of tho Foreign Offioe "Consular Instructions".
Wo recently received Chapter XXII and in itB Annex I notice
that Bahrain is now lnoludod in olass »B. British Pro tea tod
8tateon along with the Federated Malay States, Prinoipal

Native 8tatoo of India, Nopal and liadramaut. There io a
vast difference in the degree of civilization between tho most
and the least onlightenod of thoso States ],
Youro sincerely,
C.I.B.,
Umer, Esq • i
hty Sooretary to tho Oovornment of India SU/- F. B. PRIDEAUX.
In tho Foreign and Politioal Department,
SIMLA.