'File 10/16 Legislation for preventing the import and sale in Bahrain of foreign imitations of British designs' [‎3r] (7/74)

i'ranslatioii of a letter dated 6th Ajrii 1940 from J.£.Kh.edoori,
Bahrain, to the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Bahrain.
After compliments,
Since some years I have been meeting with intentional
opposition directed against me,with a view to injuring my business
materially and ■morally, by Aboody Yacoob Zeloof at Bahrain, some
of which are:-
In July 1938 I received a consignment of Toorky Bed
Oalico from Messrs. Shasha of Manchester, ^hen the said Zeloof
saw the bales at the customs he told uhe (prospectivej buyer,
Kurban Husain Fajab Ali, that he expects to receive a consignment
of the same goods after 5 days which he offered to sell to him at
Pg. 4/- per piece (the cost pride is Es. 5/d). naturally all
buyers refrained from buying from me even at cost price, i.s 5/6.
instead of the five days five months,i^nd even a year ,nc4 ,ve passed
and the above mentioned continued to give promises sa^yin^ ohat
the goods were shipped to Basra and are expected to arrive alter
a week. All this is intended to prevent prospective buyers from
buying and to cause me losses 1-
¥ irstIv I have to be late in payment of the value to the Bank so
that my business connections with the ->ank and witn my iriexjd s in
Manchester may be severed and actually something 01 tne kinc. had
happened as per letters from kr. Sadler, Assistant i-anager oi
the Bastem Bank, nondon, and from Messrs. Yusuf Shasha of
Manchester.
Secondly : Because of the decreased sales I cannot be able to
import fresh consignments and at the same lime he is causing
harm to British goods. His object is that he may thus be able
to sell to buyers Japanese G-eorgettes which he imports from
Japan, and in fact he sold this to the above mentioned Kurban
husain while I have still some pieces of my goods left in stock
despite the appreciat i6n,of^fices in London and the depreciation
of stocks of other goods.
Thirdly : In February 1940 I imported from England 9 bales of
"Shumaq" (head kerchieves) for the Nejd nErket which when he saw
at the customs, he went to Abdul Aziz al-^li al-iassam and other
merchants who deal in these goods and told them that he expects