"ملف 10/1 (مجلد III). النفط والمعادن. الامتياز النفطي بالبحرين." [و‎‎١‎٣] (٤٦٢/٣٨)

On the 5th July 1933 I went into the Mesopotamia
Persia Corporation Limited to ask Mr.Russell about the
arrival of the ship with Captain Gastrell. Mr.Russell'
took the opportunity to ask me the position as regards
the Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited. He said that they
had been disturbed by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company people
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to Bahrain and Mr.Russell asked me whether anything could
be done,saying that Major Holmes had asked him to let him
know if anything was required dealing with. Mr.Russell
showed me a letter to the Political Agent in which Major
Holmes had asked my Predecessor to address any letters for
him care of the Mesopotamia Persia Corporation Limited
and that Mr.Russell would deifcl with any local matters. I
had seen the letter before and I explained that in petty
matters one would naturally use commonsense in dealing with
him and Mr.Skinner but in political matters the only
between the Company,the Government and the Shaikh
was the Chief Local Repre8entative,Major Holmes,a,nd I
«Uiruijui that he imiiiil any power to delegate any part of his
position to anyone else. Mr .Russell asked whether I
thought he should wire to Major Holmes to come out and
I said that the position, so far as it concerned Government,
was that the only person ite. whom theyycould deal was Major
Holmes and it was for the Company to decide v/hitheiy they
wished to have dealings with the Government and the Shaikh
or not.
5-7-1933.