'ملف رقم 19/109 V (C 32) العلاقات البحرينية مع القوى الأجنبية الأخرى' [ظ‎‎١‎٦‎٣] (٥٤٧/٣٣٤)

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Yesterday there was a protracted meeting
between bheikh Ali Mujtehid, who inhabits the village of
Sinabinis (one of the villages of Bahrein) and Colonel
Biscuit. Sheikh Ali Mujtehid is an old man who is also
paralytic and of some influence. They sent a car for him
and he came to the Consulate in the Gonsulftfieneral*s car.
The meeting lasted in secrecy for about two and a half
hours and nobody heard the secrets of this interview but
one thing is sure and that is that they are starting plans
to harm and destroy the rights of Persia and Persians.
It is rumoured that as in the year 1341, they wish with the
help of Sheikh Ali Mujtehid to sow discord again between
Bahreinis and Arabs and foster internal strife because the
Arabs of Bahrein are strenuously opposed to the present
system of Government and do not recognise officially the
Government institutions, and this opposition of the Arabs
is to such an extent that they refuse to send their
children to the schools of this puppet Government of the
British: for this reason they wish to rouse the Bahreinis
against the Arabs.
Another condition which has aroused the
hostility of the Arabs and in which they do not acquiesce
is that regarding the law courts, for they dislike
submitting to the law which is administered by British
agents. During -chese days an Indian name Khan Bahadur
Seyed Sadiq, formerly assistant in the British Consulate at
Bahrein, has arrived, and it is rumoured that the British
wish to cancel their former judiciary and are now forming %
the basis for a judiciary to function under the direction
of the aforementioned aeyed so that the whole of the
inhabitants of Bahrein will be subject to the laws of his
court.
Briefly, since the day that the Persian
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