"الملف 18/55 II (C 102) المرسوم الملكي البريطاني بشأن البحرين" [و‎‎١‎٥‎٩] (٥٨١/٣١٧)

i. 360 3/ E3.
In i^ Office,
Whitehall,
1c ion,
let lovenber 1223.
Sir,
I £in directed by the Secretary of State for I‘ did to
forward, to be laid oefcr^ the uecretary of otate for foreign
affairs, a copy of a let ter ^frcm the fcvern^ent of India relative'-
to the Bahrein Order in Ocuneil. S copy of the paper? referred
to in the first paragraph of their letter was sent to the
Foreign Office with this Office letter of the 20th July last,
P.2729.
In this connection I am to r^f:r to Secret Despatch to
the Government of India ho.41, dated 15th Kcvemoer 1912
(copy sent to the Foreign Office 22nd November 1912) ^nd
connected correspondence from which it will be c ’een that
although the Qovernment of India had urged that pr:vision
should be made i nit he Order for the de; ortati r of
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foreigners, it was decided that in the absence of _ny
specific delegation from the Sheikh of the necessar; powers
no such provision should be oicdp, .nd the Order in Council
in its final form provided for the deportation of British
subject? only.
Practical working of the Order has shown this to be a
defect; and, as the Barques? Our:, on of Bedleot on is swa. e,
recent events in Bahrein have emphasised the weakness in
the position of the Political ^gent caused by this
limitation of his powers of deportation.
although the desirability of amending the Order to
remedy this weakness has been apparent for some time, no
proposals to that end have been submitted oecaiise the
obstacle which prevented the inclusion in the Order in
1912 of any provision for the deportation of foreigners,
i.e. the absence of special lelegaticn from the Bheikh,
still existed.
This