"المجلد II. مذكرات بخصوص شؤون خارجية أخرى. ١٩٠٥." [ظ‎‎٤‎٨] (٢٢٨/١٠١)

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Tehran. His Majesty’s Charge d Affaires at
Tehran has been instructed to endeavo
induce the Persian Government to P er ™ t *
British Resident at Bushire to exercise his good
offices on behalf of Bahreinis in Persia, hut to
avoid any reference to Persian claims to the
island, which cannot be recognised by H
Majesty’s Government. His Majesty s Char B
d’Affaires telegraphed, on the 16th hovcmber,
that the Shah obstinately maintained that ttie
Balireinis were Persian subjects, and that it
would he useless to pursue the question lurtner
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23. (Vide paragraph 17 of Memorandum
for October 1905.) As regards the piracies
committed by Ahmed-bin-Selman, the Foreign
Office, London, has been requested by the
Secretary of State for India to mform him of
the result of the representations which His
Majesty’s Embassy at Constantinople has
been instructed to make to the Porte. In
this connection the Political Agent at Bahrein
conveyed to the Sheikh on the 1st November
the instructions of the Government of India that
he was expected in future to adhere strictly to
his obligation, under the Treaty of 1S92, not to
correspond with the officers of any Foreign
Power without express permission from the
Political Agent. The latter reports that the
Sheikh has promised to act accordingly.
On the 29th October, it was reported that
another raid was committed by Bedouins on a
boat in which Latifa, a widow of the late Chief
of Bahrein, Mahomed-bin-Khalifah, was re
turning to Bahrein from Bidad (in Katar).
The Bedouins are said to have murdered a Holi
of Bahrein, robbed all the passengers, to have
landed a little to the north of Ojeir with their
booty, and then to have allowed the boat to
proceed to Bahrein.
21. A report has been received by the
Political Agent, Bahrein, from Katif that
Mahmood Beg, Taboor Aghasi (Commandant
of Troops) of Hassa, has arrived there to
give effect to the settlement of the case of
lYiansur-bin-Juma Pasha against the Customs
farmers of Katif in the latter’s favour. It
is also stated that Mansur Pasha, with four
other leading merchants of Katif, is proceeding
from Bahrein to Basrah to petition the Wall
in person against the arbitrary system of
levying Customs dues now in vogue at Katif.
25. Miscellaneous.— Cox has been
permitted to continue on his tour along the
irate coast and to visit Bereymee in order to
x the position of this place for the Gazetteer
of the Persian Gulf.
~ ^i C i*uy ui siate tor Indi
telegraphed on the 8th November that th
Sponge Exploration Syndicate (composed prir
dpally of persons of Greek extraction) 1 ~