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'File 82/1 III (F 64) Prospecting licenses for Kuwait, Bahrain, Nejd, Trucial Coast and Oman' [‎50r] (114/651)

The record is made up of 1 file (322 folios). It was created in 28 Nov 1923-9 Sep 1925. It was written in English and Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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a rival concern & that it would have sufficed to say he ted received
no further application. Sheik Hamad replied to this that I had
assured him that (xovernment had no intention of forcing him to give
a concession to the -a.P.O.C. or any other company / against his wish,^
that he could not under any circumstances agree to the A.PpOpC. having
a concession.He had taken up the Hulership in spite of opposition of
all his family & others because he saw that government would have no
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recourse but to take the rule out of the hands of Al Khalifeh,as
Colonel JCnox told him f & he thought he could best serve his family by
accepting the position;but as regards oil concessions, people had
put it about that Shaik Ji )asa T s removal was not unconnected with his
; having given a concession elsewhere than to the A-P49»<3. which all
arabs regard as Grovernment pure & simple,^ that if after that / he
(Haiaad) consented to the iUPfO.G having the oil^he would be accused
by the whole fnmily^as well as other arab Hulers^ of having sold his
country in return for being m^de shuik. Wm
I at once laughed at his viQW3 / & endeavoured to persuade him that
he was
Isksc^Kmoai unnecessarily timorous of local opinion,but he was most
insistent that he was right^ & that he could under no circumstances
alter them. I think that it is not at all jkioprobable that persons
opposed to his rule, looking for any stick with which to beat him
Govsrnment, hav« thoroughly frightandd him. Not long f=go Xtasuf Zanoo
fesrk rem rked to me that ^.osaibi would not have been deported from
^Bahrain if Bin Saud had given the concession to the A.-fc^OoC. so that
it is not impossible that similar remarks about Shaikh iuasa^s removal
come from the same source. Incidentally you will not have failed to
notice the references to oil,the pearl fisheries etc in the petition
I recently presented by Abdul Wahab ^aiyani on Bhaik j!iasa*s behalf,to
1 the Viceroy. Abdul Wahab is perfectly fanatical as regards Foreign
j influence of any kind in Bahrain & seems always to have been con
vinced that £reat Britain intends by degrees to swallow up the resource
of the Islands. He will doubtless have made the most of his opportunil
-ity to spread about that recent Politics are not unconnected with
j oil concessions. Whatever the cause there is no doubt that Hamad has
j quite ma.de up his mind to refuse to deal at all with the -^.P^O.C.

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The volume contains correspondence and telegrams between the Political Department, the Colonial Office and the Secretary of State at the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. in London, 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. at Bushire, the Political Agents at Kuwait and Sharjah, local rulers, and Anglo Persian Oil Company (APOC) representatives on the negotiations for oil concessions in Kuwait, Bahrain, Nejd [Najd, Jubail, Saudi Arabia], Qatar, Muscat, Oman and Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. against the competitor Eastern and General Syndicate Limited, represented by Major Frank Holmes.

The volume includes the agreement on the oil exploration license in Muscat and Oman, in Arabic and English, signed on 18 May 1925, between Saiyid Taimur bin Faisal, Sultan of Muscat and Oman, and D'Arcy Exploration Company limited (folios 281-296).

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1 file (322 folios)
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The documents in the volume are mostly arranged in chronological order.

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The main foliation is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. The numbering begins with the first item of correspondence, on number 1, and ends with the last folio of writing, on number 314.

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