"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎٩‎٣‎٥] (١٧٨٢/١٠٩٠)

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on the mainland. In 1897, however, the Constantinople Board of Health
proposed to establish a sanitary post in Bahrain; but the project was
abandoned on the objections of the British delegate, who represented
that Bahrain was an independent principality under British protection.
In 1898 the Forte ; professing 1 to have heard that a British Vice-Consul
had been appointed in Bahrain, requested Her Majesty's Government to
apply to them for his exequatur; but it was decided to reply that
the British Government could not admit the right of the Turkish Govern
ment to insist that British consular officers in Bahrain should be provided
with an Ottoman exequatur. Towards the end of 1900 Salman-bin-Di ; aij,
a cousin of the Shaikh of Bahrain, was murdered, along with a number
of Bahrain subjects, in Dhahran, where he had gone for sport, by
Bedouins of the Al Morrah tribe; this incident and the reclamations to
which it gave rise are described in the history of Hasa.
Relations with Persia during the same period, 1895-1904.
In 1899 the question of the right of natives of Bahrain to British
protection in Persia was raised by the French Minister at Tehran in
connection with a claim brought by a French protege of Persian nation
ality against the widow of a Bahrain subject, who was herself the
daughter of an emancipated slave. The case was referred to the British
Legation in consequence of certain charges of misconduct made by a
French consular official against the British Residency Agent at Lingeh;
and the British Minister, on a suggestion by the Resident in the Persian
Gulf approved by the Government of India, apparently stated in
reply that the Shaikh of Bahrain had been precluded by treaty since
1880 from holding direct relations with any foreign power other than
the British, and that his subjects abroad were under British protection.
On the Slst of August 1901 a Belgian Director of the Imperial
Persian Customs visited Bahrain in a Persian Government steamer and
interviewed the Shaikh, to whom he represented that he had been sent
by the Shah to arrange for the posting of two Persian customs officials
in Bahrain, and that the duty of these officials would be to examine the
seals placed on the cargo hatches of vessels at the Persian port last
visited and to seal the hatches again at the departure of the steamers
from Bahrain. The Belgian called also on the British Political Assistant
Question of
the political
status of
natives of
Bahrain in
Persia, 1899.
Visit of a
Persian cus
toms official
to Bahrain,
1901.