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.to Bahraini if eo then it will, I think, ho of little avail,
to try and arrest the tendency towardo "weatornioation".If

tho Political Resident io to he permanently located at Bahrain,
then the authority of the Shaikh must automatically tend to
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decrease, and it will naturally he regarded as alinoet
tantamount to the declaration of a definite protectorate
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over theoe iBlands,evcn though no formal announcement to
that effect is made.

i have, etc • »
3d.ii. V.Biecoe.
Political Resident in tne Persian Gulf.

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