'File 19/109 V (C 32) Bahrain Relations with other Foreign Powers' [‎166v] (340/547)

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Ootoberj I arriyed there on the 8th Hovember and left on the
ilth Noyember; I did not Inspect any Government department
in Bahrain; I did visit the Police barracks and spent about
tan minutes at the Customs, diacussing various matters yvith
Mr* de Grenier f the Director of Customsi and also said a
few words to his clerical staff, who are nearly all Indians
and whom he presented to me. I gave no ordare of any kind
that any Persian should be dismissed from any department•
Jha whole atory is a complete and entire fabrication from
beginning to end.
4* I did not have a long private conversation with a
Persian Mujtahid called Shaikh /ya. Several of the local
priesthood called upon me and it is possible that Shaikh
Ayp may have bean among them. I aaw a very large number of
people and do not remember their names. In view of the
fact however that 1 was exceedingly busy, each interview waa
limited to about a quarter of an hour and conversation was
confined to the customary platitudes. The only interview
that I can recall with any of the kazis waa one with the
chief Shia 1 kazi, who complained for the second time to me of
the oppression suffered by his compatriots at Mohammerah at
the hands of the Persian authorities.
5. It seems hardly necessary to discuss the article
in the "Itila'at". It is a series of lies from beginning
to end. I have only been able to discover one accurate
statement in it, and that is, that the quarantine building
has been acquired by the Royal Air Force as a rest house.
Every other statement made in that article is untrue except#
of coursa 9 the fact that, as stated above, I did see some
of the kazis and Shaikh All (presumably this is the same
man ....