'ملف رقم 19/109 V (C 32) العلاقات البحرينية مع القوى الأجنبية الأخرى' [ظ‎‎١‎١‎٥] (٥٤٧/٢٤٠)

No. 95-3 of 1930.
British Residency and Consulate-aeneral,
Bushire # 13th March 1930.
The Political A^ent.
Bahrain.
Memorandum.
Reference your endorsement flo. 319, dated the
28nd February 1930. i
I have rec ntly visited Mohaianerah personally and.
made particular enquiries about the treatment of Bahrainis
therei and 1 have ascertained that the staterients con-
tained in HaJ i Hamid's letter to Rved Ahmed bin t'yed
Alawir are largely exaggerations and in some cases in
correct. The local Persian authorities are maintaining
the modus vivendi, and there is no active oppression of
Bahrainis. The present position is admittedly incon
venient to Bahrainis when they wish to leave Persia,
inasmuch as they have to provide themselves with two
passports, a British and a Persian one; but l have hopes
that the question of the status of Bahrain will be finally
settled very shortly and if so all these difticulties will
automatically disappear.
HaJ i Ham id * s statement that before a "taskarah"
is issued security lias to be given that the holder \;ill not /
change his clothes when he reaches Basrah is, i believe,
entirely xk incorrect.
Attested :
SD/ H. V. Biscoe, Lieut.-Colonel,
Political Resident in the Persian gulf.
Capt.,
for Secretary to the Political
Resident, Persian Gulf.
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