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From the Persian Minister for "Fore-^n Af r airs ,a'dresLed
to His •'cjeBty 's Charge fi * 'ffaires. "ated zer 26th,1309
fl7th December 1930 % » "NiO,26041/^ 101212#
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Monsieur le Chrrge dV'.ff' i^es,
Accordin^ to information received, which has
eluo been reproduced in the papers, CJoione.. 3iscuit
(Biscoe) , the Consul-General of the h on our a 1 —e "B.^xtish
Crovernment in Bushire had, at the 1 ime of his arrival -it
Bahrain, made the following st( tement to Persian merchants
there in the course of his private m -^etir g with them:-
"Bahrain is (r n; independent (State) and you, who for
more than 30 years are living in ahrain are, in accord
ance v/ith the rules in force, considered as subjects of
Bahrain ..."
The Persians have been very much affected by
this statement,
(It is also reported that; on Aban ?th
(29tl October 1930; vhen the Ccnsul-"eneral had gone to
inspect the Government departments in ahrain, he ( the
Consul General) had instructed that the Persian staff
(employees) should be dismissed from the departments.
He( the 0onsul General^ (is also said ~ aa T :
had long private conversations with a Persxan Mujtahec
called Shaikh ^ya which, as conjectured by correspond
ents [ SxC ,, form part of a series cf actiVx^es started
by the Consul-General aiming at annihilating the rights
of Persia and Persians.
TThile taking the foregoing into view, you will
see ..•