'File 19/109 IV (C 28) Shaikh's Relations with other Foreign Powers' [‎103r] (219/617)

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telegram Ho.1086-D of the IZth March. 19x6, to the Chief
Political Officer Basra (see Foreign and Political Department
Proceedings, Kay 1916, General-A l-Iui "bers 59-65). The identify
certificates, if qualified "by the clause suggested by the
Foreign Office, would retain their value in the case of
travellers to Iraq or India, and as travelling documents
1 or passengers on British steamers in the Gulf.
.iie Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. , Bushire, has stated, however,
' (in his'despatch of the 20th May, 1926, Ho.34/202-3, addressed
to Kis Majesty's Minister at Tehran), that the certificates
are carried "by travellers ("both Bahrein! and Persian) to
Persian ports, and are accepted by Persian officials as
Prool of the port of embarkation. The object of the Foreign
Oflice suggestion is to avoid the production of the identity
certificates by Banreinis to Persian officials and the
consequent risk of their being confiscated. The result,
however might "be that travellers from Bahrein would suffer
inconvenience from the want of any documents which they could
produce before Persian officials on their arrival at a
Persian port, or possibly they might frustrate the object
aesired by the Foreign Office and use the identity
certificates in the same way as heretofore.
4^ This difliculty might perhaps be limited by continuing
to issue to other than Bahrein subjects the identity
certificate now used, and issuing only to the latter a
certificate qualified as the Foreign Office suggest. The
^ Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. has stated that of the 6,000 identity
certificates issued by the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Bahrein, in
1925 only 800 were issued to subjects of Bahrein, while
2,000 were issued to Persians. (Incidentally it may be
i e.aai-Ked that Persian ollicials do not act consistently if
they tolerate the possession of these certificates by
Persian^ and confiscate them whn held by Bahreinis). But
this suggestion, if practicable, would not affect the
difficulty