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. Senior ^aval Officer in the Persian Gulf
Political Resident, Bushire.
RepeatedPolltical Agent, Bahrain.
1310.
l- th (rocfeived 5.1th) January
* 1a v’lio remains at Has at i^-naimah sends a
reliminary report in fol_oving sense.
1 * She if n. admits removing flagstaff - r, or ^ollov in^
reasons
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(a) Tanb is useless to him as he gets no
income from it and must try to lease
it O’ ing to financial situation,
(c) in order to get a representative of
the British Government to come and »
discuss question of Island vith him.
. T lsc: reminded Shaikh of his treaty obligations and
told him that he should not have removed flagbt^ff without
informing somebody especially the Political Resident.
- . Shaikh told * iss. that he had sometime a so suggested
to Political Resident that the British should rent I- nb
from him. As Political Resident had re]lied that B r itish
old no l. . ant to rent ianb Shaikh says he Is nov In treaty
with someone else to rent it but does not sag who. ? Is;-
thinks that Shaikh is here referring to Persians but that it
is really a biujkj' to get money from us and that Persians
whuld be most unlikely to rent Island as.then claim It as
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tneir own.
Has al Khaiman says he did not order lahmud. to
threaten arrest or der)ortation of India Light-house keeper
and does not believe -*fe.hmud did so.
b. Public opinion in Has al Khaimah is completely
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