'ملف رقم 19/109 V (C 32) العلاقات البحرينية مع القوى الأجنبية الأخرى' [ظ‎‎١‎٤‎٣] (٥٤٧/٢٩٤)

Persian lUnlster for Foreign Affairs to Charge d f Affaires.
1st Azer 1309 (November ^iindml930) Wo. 21772/71012141
Uonsieur le Charge d*Affaires,
I beg to aoknowledge the
receipt of your esteemed Kote of Aban 13th (November 4th
1930) regarding the passports of Bahreinis.
With regard to the statement you make that certain
reports have been received \jy you in which certain acts of
Persian local officials in the Persian Sulf are mentioned
in regard to the treatment of Bahreinis, you sry that these
acts are contrary to the promise which was given to Sir
H.Clive on September 9th that "so long hs the Oeneral Treaty
is in suspense, the Status iio will be obse ved M I have the
honour to reply that no acts contrary to the rights of the
Persian Government and the ordinary procedure in force, or of
the Status ^uo to which you refer have been committed on the
part of the Oovernment or of Persian officials.
The conditions and arrangements for the journeys of
flahreinis to Basrah and other ports have been as follows
for more than 25 years A pass (jawaz) or travel pass
(Ilm we Khabar) was al'ays given to Bahreinis and the British
officials signed (visaed) those passes, but according to
reports received on Farvardin 16 1309 (April 5th 1930) the
British Consular Officials in the Persian oulf have begun
to act contrary to that arrangement.
Firstly the British Consulate general in Bushire
instructed Mespers Company not to accept Bahrein! travellers
for Basrah and elsewhere if they were travelling on travel
pasues; only people in possession of official passports were
to be accepted on board ste-mers.
Subsequently