"ملف 4/13 II‎ الزبارة" [و‎‎٤‎٤] (٥٤٣/٩٢)

tolerated raucn. Being anxious for tneir safety and for tne
comfort of all, I tolerated for about 3 months hoping that
they would submit to me in an amicable way, but this my
toleration did not do anything but made them show more
arrogance and hostility and spread a spirit of corruption
amongst all my subjects. 1, therefore, terminated the truce
with Rashid bin Muhammad and his followers, four Honour also
stated that you have heard from the Political Agent, -oahrain,
that the negotiations are still going on. It b&J ^^ot be hidden
from Your Honour that these negotiations took a long time anu
the representatives of His Highness the Ruler of %hrain ?re
insisting in their hostile claims against me, my town ana my
boundary. My representatives are staying in Bahrain in the
hope that His fi puiess the Ruler of Bahrain may agree to my
proposals but it is regretted that they contempted my
representatives, closed down the guest house which you ordered
for them and turned them out of it in an indecent way. The
wrote a letter to ny represetatives which indicates that they
are terminatm the negotiations on their .side, a copy of which
is enclosed for your perusal. Later my representatives remain
ed for some days during which period they were subject to
cruelty and contempt. No result has been achieved out of these
lengthy negotiations. Your Honour also said that I must have
received, long prior to tuis date, the proposals of His High
ness the Ruler of Bahrain to the effect that one of his
relatives may meet with two of my relatives in connection with
these matters. Yes, on 20th June 193V equivalent to 11th
Rabi Thani 13b6 I received a letter from the Political Agent,
Bahrain on this subject. It reached me one night before tuts
your letter. Your Honour said that you presume tnat it reached
me long before the receipt of this your letter, but there was
no space of time between that letter ana your letter save that
which I mentioned above. 1 sent him a reply saying that if
His Highness the Ruler of Bahrain, as he(Political Agentjsaid,
wishes a meeting to be held between his brother Shaikh ’Abdulla