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Bahrein, 20th June 1925.
I RESIDENCY An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. . I
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Please refer to your Memorandum No. 183-S of 30th
May.
I quite appreciate the Resident's disinclination
to enter into correspondence at this juncture with the
Sultan of Nejd on the subject of the action recently taken
"by the Amirs of Hasa and ^atif, reported in my Confidential
letter No. . 41/1/5 dated 17th May. I did not, I think,
advocate such a course.
I wish to point out however that, though the Dowasir
might be said to have a moral ( but certainly no legal I )
c^laim against the diver ( in the first case mentioned in
my letter No. 41/1/3 ), who had actually been employed by
them in the past, it is difficult to construct even the
shadow of a claim for them against the Nakhuda in the second
case, who merely employed their divers according to diving
custom; it was no concern of his whether the Bahrein
Government chose to give those divers " free barwas w or
not.
Further, whether or not the Sultan af Nejd holds
views other than those held by Sheikh Hamed himself regard-
-ing the confiscation of the Dowasir* s fights, the Sheikh-
considers it his duty to protect his subjects as far as he
is able from the consequences of his own orders, and he feels
that in view of the strong support given him by h.m.
Government at the time those orders were passed, H.M. Govern-
-ment cannot fail to assist him now in doing so.
To The
Captain B. Stuart Homer, I.A*,
Secretary to the Hon. 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.
in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ,
Bushire.