'الملف 8/11 صحف محظورة ومقالات صحفية تحريضية' [و‎‎١‎١‎٥] (٢٦٠/٢٢٩)

I prrived there on the 8th N. vember and left on the 11th
! T oveinrjer; I did not inspect any Government department in
"Bahrain; I did visit the Police barracks and spent ahout
ten minutes -t the Customs, discussing varirus matters with
Mr. d .e Grenier, the Director of Custo is, and also said a few
words to his clerical staff, who are nearly all Indians and
vhon he presented to le. I gave no orders of any k. d that
any Persian should be dismissed from any departments The
whole story is a complete and entire fabrication from
beginning to end,
4, I did not have a 1on_ private conversation with a
Persian Mujtahid called Shaikh Aya. Several of the local
priecthood called upon me and it is possible that Shaikh
/.ya ray have been amo v ;_ them. I saw a very large number of
people and do n^t remember their names. In view of the
fact however that 1 was exceedingly busy, each interview
was limited to about a. quarter of an hour and conversation
was confined to the customary platitudes. The only interview
that I can recall with any of the kazis was one with the
chief Shia ka^i, who complained for 'he second time to me of
the oppression suffered y his compatriots at LTohammerah at
the hands of the Persxan authorities.
5. It seems hardly necessary to discuss the article
in the "Itilf 'at' 1 . It is a series of l^es from beginning to
end. I have only been able to discover one accurate statement
in it, and that is, that the quarantine building has been
acquired by the Roy^l Air Force as a rest house. Every other
f: t tement -ade in that article is untrue except, of cc rse,
the fact that, as stated above, I did sec some of the ka^is
and Shaikh Ali ( presumably this is the same man as is
ref erred ..•