ملف 10/1 VIII امتياز نفط البحرين [و‎‎٤‎٧] (٥٥٥/١٠٨)

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INDIA OFFICEs
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p.z. 2565/34. 21st April 1934.
Dear Mr. Ballantyne,
I write to confirm our conversation of two or three
days ago aTaout the Bahrein radio-telephones, to say that the
Sheikh has been advised to reply to the request put forward on
"behalf of the Company;
(a) that as an adequate service operated by Imperial and
International Communications Ltd. is already available, direct
communication with San Francisco'cannot be permitted.
(b) that he is unable to relax the three mile limit
imposed last January, save to the extent that the Mooring
Master at Sitra may use radio-telephones between Sitra and the
outer buoy (within the area recently surveyed on behalf of the
Company by H.M.S. "Ormonde" which includes the track which will
be used by incoming ships) to the extent specified in
paragraphs 4 and 5 of Mr. Skinner's letter to the Political
lH V Agent, P.A.39 dated 18th March.
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(c) that within the three mile limit the Company may,
however, communicate with all tankers coming in to remove the
Company's oil products, whether or not belonging to or
chartered by them.
2. As I mentioned to you, it will, of course, be necessary
to obtain the consent of the Bahrein Government to the
appointment of a Mooring Master and Pilot, which was referred to
in Mr. Skinner's letter quoted above, and the Mooring Master and
Pilot would of course also have to be subject to the authority
of the Bahrein Government's Port Officer.
I Yours sincerely,
. Ballantyne, Esq.,
ahrein Petroleum Go. Ltd. , J.G. LAITHWAITE
19, Moorgate, E .G. 2.