'File 19/109 IV (C 28) Shaikh's Relations with other Foreign Powers' [‎145r] (305/617)

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India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. ,
T Vhit shall,
London, S.W.I.
17tlx A iu L ust j.928.
Sir,
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I am directed "by tiie Secretary of State for India to
refer to Colonial Office letters i^o .59154/28, dated the 24th
July and 1st August, to this Office, of which copies are under
stood to have "been sent to the Foreign Office, relative to the
refusal of the Persian Consul at Basra to endorse the passx-)ort
of one Kaji Hunfish, a native of Bahrein.
2. The exact position ol Ha j i xlanfish, and the facts of the
case, are not very clear from the correspondence in question.
Whereas however tne Persian Consul at Basra does not appear to
question that Ha ji Hanfish is a native of Bahrein, the tone of
his coiomunicat ion of which a copy is enclosed in Sir H .Do'cbs's
despatch oi 16th June aud the statement in the enclosure to
Colonial Office letter ^0.59154/28 of 24th July that he does not
appear to have received the instructions referred to in Sir P.
Loraine's despatch i>io.574 of 5j.st Octoher 1925 together seem to
imply that the intention is to disregard the undertaking of the
then Persian Minister of foreign Affairs. The present time, when
Persian claims to Bahrein are "being asserted with such vigour, is
not, however, one in which it is desirable to allow anything to
pass which might "be regarded as compromising the general position
taken "by His Majesty's Government on the status o^ the Islands,
and, subject to any observations which the Secretary of State
for foreign Affairs may have to offer, the Secretary of State for
India woula therefore sujgest that immediate representations
should "be addressed to the Persian Government with reference to
1^.
the arrangement entered into in regard to Bahreinis travelling in
the Gulf in 1925 (Tehran despatch to the Foreign Office, ^0.574,
dated the 51st October 1925 and connected correspondence), with a
view to securing the issue of instructions to the Consul at
Basra