"المجلد II. مذكرات بخصوص شؤون خارجية أخرى. ١٩٠٥." [و‎‎٢‎٨] (٢٢٨/٦٠)

STieildi had suggested more than one post, and
that, before the number or location of posts
were settled, a visit by Major Cox to Khor
Abdulla should be sanctioned.
Captain Mahon, E.E., has visited Bubiyan
in the course of an investigation on which he
had been sent by the War Office General Staff
to examine the question of the eventual
terminus of the Baghdad Bailway.
14. Tamb .—(See paragraph 38 of Memo
randum for May 1905.) Major Cox reported
on 1st June that a visit to Tamb had convinced
him that the report as to the erection of build
ings by the Sheikh of Shargah had not the
slightest foundation.
15. Musandim .—(See paragraph 20 of
Memorandum for May 1905.) A despatch,
dated 19th May, has been received from the
Secretary of State, requesting the views of the
Government of India as to the maintenance of
the flagstaff on Telegraph Island, which they
had previously sanctioned (see paragraph 15 of
Memorandum for April 19€5). The views of
Major Cox have been invited (see paragraph
20 of Memorandum for May 1905).
16. Bahrein ^—(See paragraph 31 of
Memorandum for May 1905.) The rumours
of Sheikh Isa having declared himself to be a
Turkish subject are supposed by the local
officers to be due possibly to the intrigues of
some of his relations with Mons. Peronne, a
Brenchman who was recently on a visit in
the Gulf (see paragraph 34 of Memorandum
for May 1905).
17. Plague has broken out in the island.
The epidemic is apparently gradually subsiding.'
18. The Political Agent at Bahrein has
drawn attention to the open slave traffic
-which flourishes at Bahrein, and has suggested
that, as a partial remedy pending the acquisi
tion of more British influence in the island,
the Political Agent should be authorised
to free slaves without previous reference to
the Besident or to the Sheikh.
19. Bejd .—(See paragraph 29 of Memo
randum for May 1905.) Telegrams, stated to
have been addressed by Marshal Peyzi Pasha
and by Ibn Sand to the Sultan, have been com
municated to His Majesty’s Consul at Basrah,
according to which Biad, Washun, Sedyr, and
their dependencies have been made into a Kasa,
with Ibn Sand as Kaimmakam Appointments
have also been made in Kassim. Marshal
Eeyzi and Ibn Sand are in Kassim, and Ibn
Bashid has returned to Hayil. The arrange
ment would thus seem to be that Ibn Saud
is to govern Nejd nominally as Turkish official
and Ibn Bashid, Jebel Shammar; while the
intervening district of Kassim will be governed
directly by the Porte.