'Muscat reforms: customs; finances and negotiations with Omanis' [‎12r] (28/508)

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To P >1) Uo-a Baghdad
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Please refer your of l^th» November. It was Uoz-ed.
to the Oiaanl• accept the i3ultan by including the
prohibition of the public sal® of liquor as one of the
condition©• At the en - of the Iket however th® point
was not b w th^i* It i^ unlikely tiiah they rill press
tlwi ; oint if t ;^y to ta# first condition. If th«
Ovarii• prove very iiffioult I would ask to b« allowed
discretion on this point# On the other lunl fct i® likely
that tiiey will raise the question of the anr.s traffic but
In my opinion It woull b« better not to include this in the
terms as it would be liipoa«ibl« to include such ii toru
till wo w«re cortaln of th^ir friendly Intentions, X .is
would bo a «ultable reply with the explanation that later
the subject may bo :iado one for friendly negotiat on,if it
Ib found that araa are neoesaary ft>r their sovomuent.
Addreeacd Ba,^''^d copied Delhi nd Buanire by post.
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Copies to Secretary Foreign roil Political Department
Del ill.
D.P^R. Bushjfere
Civil coinmlBSioner Ba^dnd