'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part IA & IB. J G Lorimer. 1915' [‎915] (1070/1782)

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In June 1879 there were rumours that the Turks intended to establish
in Bahrain a coal depot which would gradually be converted into a
political agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. ; but, if any such movement had been intended, it was
frustrated by an Agreement concluded between the Shaikh of Bahrain
and the British Government in the following year. In TsTovember 1880 a
Turkish squadron paid a visit to Bahrain, and the commander was heard
to assert that Bahrain was Turkish territory.
A petition against British interference in Bahrain was submitted in
April ]879 by Nasir-bin-Mubarak and his adherents to the Grand
\ azir of Turkey; in this document the writers described Bahrain as an
Ottoman possession, protested against their own expulsion by the British,
and requested that Muhammad-bin-Khalifah and one of his companions
should be released, and that they themselves should be allowed to return
to Bahrain and resume possession of their property. The matter was
taken up by the Vazir as something quite new, as a striking illus
tration of the high-handed proceedings of Great Britain, and as proof
that an attempt had been made, in defiance of pledges, to assert British
sovereignty over Bahrain ; and Her Majesty's Government, after again
disclaiming the exercise of sovereignty over Bahrain which they regarded,
they said, as independent, promised to investigate the acts of violence of
which the petitioners complained. The result of the enquiries which
they made from the Government of India, however, was to show that
the petition related merely to the punishment of the principal actors in
the disturbances of 1869.
In 1879 and 1880 cases occurred in which the Turkish authorities
in Hasa requested the Shaikh to extradite criminals and debtors who
had absconded to Bahrain; and in one instance a certain 'Abdullah, who
was accused of murder, was actually surrendered. The more difficult
question of debtors absconding from Bahrain to Hasa was referred by the
Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. to the Government of India, who ordered that the
Shaikh should be discouraged from entering into direct correspondence
with the Turks, and that a list of Bahrain claims should be obtained with
a view to the disposition of the Turkish authorities being ascertained
through the British Resident. In the opinion of the Government of
India requests by the Turkish authorities for extradition could not affect
the position of the Shaikh of Bahrain detrimentally, but were rather
an admission of his independence.
In August 1887, at the request of the British Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. ,
an embargo was laid by the Shaikh of Bahrain on pearls and specie to
the value of $20,000, the property of Shaikh Jasim of Dohah in Qatar,
whicn happened at the time to be deposited in Bahrain; this step was
taken for the purpose of compelling Jasim to pay compensation for
an outrage against British subjects which is described in the history
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Proposed
Turkish
coal dep6t
in Bahrain,
and visit of
Turkish
vessels, 1879-
80.
Cause of the
rebels of 1869
taken up by
the Turkish
Government,
1879-80.
Extradition
of criminals
and debtors
between Hasa
«nd Bahrain,
1879-80.
Turkish
protest
against the
seizure ot
property of
the Shaikh
of Dohah in
Bahrain,
1887-88.
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