'File 19/109 III (C 22) Bahrain - Relations with Foreign Powers, Etc' [‎121r] (254/494)

[This Document is the Property of H is Britannic Majesty's Government. 1
PERSIA. [December 1 l-j
CONFIDENTIAL. Section 10 -
11733/67/91] No. 1.
Sir P Loraine to the Marquess Ctirzon of Kedleston.—{Received December 11.)
(No. 486. Confidential.) 31, 1923.
My I BY'vour telegram No. 194 of the 8th October your Lordship was so good as to
inform me that neither the time nor circumstances were suitable for a submission .
Kit rat-ion of any sort of the Persian pretensions to sovereignty over the Island of
Ihrem and vour Lordship evinced some astonishment that any snggestion as regards
a statement which i had extiactea irom i auestion of the Persian claims to
which he was a niember did no in en sam e time a notice issued by the
Bahrein, at all events tor the time being. - ' n , , o ,1 Kannizar of Arabistan
Persian vice-consul at Najaf atid jui y indicated some tendency on the
reported on in my telegiam . fVmsp claims The Naiaf incident was
part of the Persian Government to asse . +o take up the question of the
perhaps not very serious, but it j ^ private letter to the Minister for
Karguzar's instructions, and I theretoie ad 1 • / , • , • ellc l 0SB d herein. Some
Foreign Affairs requesting their withdrawal, ^ in his hand. He
days later Mussadik-es-Snltaneb came ° ^ ,n ^ b the previous Government and
pointed out that the instructions had been iss not the present intention of
that, although he had P re " ou ^/ nform \ d he m ® fstbn of Bahrein, the cancellation oi
Mushir-ei 1-Dowleh's Government to ri ' is ' i . , J^^^en regarded by the, Persian public
his predecessor's instructions w ° uld . ceU< J • J t Bahrein. "His Excellency went on to
as a total abandonment ot the Pers ^" o1 ^ ^ ^^.fr , jn record in the Department and
sav that if I insisted on his T- * eplv t0 reassert the Persian claim to
answering it, he would be compelled ^. l '\,^ h y it was agre ed had better be allowed
Bahrein in principle; thus the very q uest,on ' v lette r. He therefore asked me to
to sleep, would he raised in a formal milU " e ^ fl ct the desirability of insisting on
take hack the letter for the time ^^jtad described. I told h-s Excellency
its acceptance with the c u onse ^® nCe fx was unable to accept the oonte !f ^
that I would reflect on the matter, but that ouest i on • on the contrary, it was the
»™ p "fens «ta
not expect this challenge to ^ to Bahrein I could ^
was that of abandoning the s , ha . dow A term adopted by British officials to refer to local sailing vessels in the western Indian Ocean. y for all abandon it. SlI ' ce t 8 " ® ^t
why the Persian Government did not differeut ocC asions with the '^uk that
h J been argued m official notes on about ^ Q , to stan d on. Since 1783 the
the Persian g case had bee,, shown not ^ve^ feg^^ ^ exercise, a single act of
Persian Government had ° ever h ^ e they made any attempt to re ^ ( l u Majesty's
sovereignty m the island, nor naa y must remember that n j j
rw M zzJtez tm ystf&xz s
Government were not a 7 ^ period after its conquest by Bahrein had
grown up and gradually assumed t ^ claim Smyrna ^nd Del
Banrein, and his Excellency must real.se
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