File 1508/1905 Pt 3 'Bahrain: postal arrangements; mails; post office' [‎81r] (9/180)

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No. 3011 , dated Bushire. the 25 th
1912
1911 .—(Confidential).
From—J. H. Bill, Esq., First Assistant Resident (In the absence of Resident),
To—The Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department.
With reference to correspondence ending with the telegram from the Gov
ernment of India in the Foreign Department, No. S.-674, dated 10th November
T xr 1fl ooTT 1911, I have the honour to forward
Letter No. 1033 V., dated lit September, from Pohh- „ .. • n , j
tical, Agent, Bahrain to the Chief of Bahrain. COpiGS Ol the papers marginally n0t6u,
Letter dated loth Ramazan 1329, from chief of received from 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. , Bah-
Bahrain, to 1 .olitical Asronty Bahrain. • « . • i ii
rain, and to enqnire whether Govern
ment consider these sufficient. Captain Lorimer reports that the Shaikh seemed
to be shy of entering into a formal agreement, but it would seem to Colonel Cox
that his letter is sufficient our purpose.
Translation of a letter No. 1033 V., dated the 1 st September 1911 ( 7 th Ramazan 1329 ), from
Captain D. L. R. Lorimer, 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. , Bahrain, to Shaikh Esa bin Ali al Khalifa,
Chief of Bahrain.
After compliments—
I have the honour to remind you that I recently invited you to consider
whether you would he ready to enter into an agreement with the British
Government not to allow any Foreign Power to open a post-office in Bahrain.
The idea was that the existence of such a formal agreement would make it
easy for you| to reply to any power that might ask to be allowed to open a post-
Office here.
In conversation I understood you to say that you were not anxious to enter
into a formal written treaty on the subject, but that should application be made
to you, you would reply to the ' applicant that you had an agreement with ns
which precluded your sanctioning the establishment of a foreign post-office off
hand and you would at once refer the question to the British Government.
I should be glad to know if this is correct and if I have understood what
you said.
Translation of a letter dated the 10 th Ramazan 1329 ( 4 th September 1911 ), from Shaikh Esa
bin Ali al Khalifa, Chief of Bahrain, to Captain D. L. R. Lorimer, 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. ,
Bahrain.
After compliments—
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your esteemed letter
No. 1033, dated the 1st September 1911 (7th Bamazan 1329) on the subject of
your conversation with me regarding the question of post-offices, and beg to say
that it is just as you understood. If any Foreign Government asks me about
it, I will answer that I have an agreement with you which precludes the open
ing of any foreign post-office in Bahrain. 1 will then at once refer the ques
tion to the British Government. I am always solicitous to preserve my friend
ship with the High Government.
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