مجموعة ٣٠ / ٩٣ "وضع رعايا البحرين في بلاد فارس والرعايا الفارسيين في البحرين." [و‎‎٦‎٨] (٤٠٢/١٤٠)

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10 divide persons of Bahrain origin in Persia
into three categories :~
vl) those who ovai landed propt 3 rty,
(2) Bahrainis born in Persia, and
(3) those who were born in Bahrain.
As regards the first we can do nothing for them and hi ere is
no objection to telling them so on every possible occasion,
nor can there be any difficulty in explaining this to the
bviaikh, iis regards the second, since Bahrain has now published
a proclamation that persons born in Bahrain of foreign parents
ivoulu, unless registered in the igency, ba considered as subjects
oi trie Bahrain State, we could, I think, persuade the Sheikh
that it is unreasonable to expect us to do anything for Bahrainis
born in Persia, since I do not think that these people have ary
real claim on us* They intend to remain in Persia, they are
usually married in Persia am since they are bom there, Persians
have every right to consider them as sons of die soil* It is
true that foreigners in Bahrain can register and avoid Bahrain
nationality, but the fact remains that Persians do not. We
are now left with the third category of persons born in Bahrain
who genuinely belong to it and for these we must make an attempt
to do something.
The question of retaliation was taken up by Sir Hugh
Biscoe in his Despatch No. 235-S., dated the 5th May 1931 wherein
he suggested that we should withdraw the Capitulations from the
Persians in Bfihrain and subject them to the local courts. I
told Sir Hugh at the time that I thought his idea was mistaken
and that it would hit us more than the Persian Government in as
much as it would reduce the power of the Political Agent over an
important section of the community, and that it was impracticable
in that most of the Persians in Bahrain spoke only Persian and
could not be subjected to courts whose officers spoke nothing
but Arabic* I also pointed out that since the act of with-
drawing Capitulations could only take place once, it would have
only a temporary effect and tiiat once the Persians had
forgotten