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as it is understood that payments of this nature would be in accordance with modern
practice, they might be put to the Company.
5. As regards the additional provisions proposed, Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6
seem to require no comment, and these additions might be submitted to the Company.
^ 6. As regards No. 7, there has been further correspondence since the Air
Ministry wrote their letter of the 13th May, 1929,* the sites for the landing ground
and seaplane station on Bahrein Island have been selected, and the Company have
been informed accordingly. There has. however, been further correspondence with
the Air Ministry regarding a possible landing ground on Muharraq Island, and they
are being requested to state what is the present position in this respect.
7. No. 8. Paragraph 26 of the record of the Interdepartmental meeting held
on the 3rd Mayt shows that the general opinion of Departments is that the Company
should be pressed to accept both the safeguards referred to. The Admiralty and
Petroleum Department will, perhaps, suggest the precise terms of the articles which
should be submitted to the Company to cover these points.
18135/33 [Nos. 192 195].
No. 88.
MR. K. W BLAXTER (Colonial Office)
to
1] MR. F. C. STARLING (Petroleum Department).
= 2] MR. C. F. A. WARNER (Foreign Office).
31 CAFTAIN H. R. MOORE (Admiralty).
4] MR. J. G. LAITHWAITE ( 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. ).
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[Answered [2] hy No. 97, and [4] hy No. 105.]
Downing Street, S.W.I, 26th June, 1933.
My dear [Starling,] [Warner,] [Moore,] [Laithwaite,]
We sent you on the 19th June a copy of a further despatch^ from Fowle
regarding the Bahrein Oil Concession. I do not think that we can take any further
steps until we have received the Resident's detailed comments upon these new pro
posals; and we are also still awaiting the Company's answer to our letter of 25th May§
asking them for information on certain points. We ought to get the Resident's
comments at any moment, and there seems no reason why an answer from Ballantyne
to our letter of the 25th May should not be received very shortly.
Meantime, however, we think that it would be a good thing to try to clear our
minds in regard to the amendments which in any case we want to see introduced in
the mining lease and which we propose at the appropriate moment to put to the
Company. On the 2nd Mayj| [To [2], [3 | and [4] : Starling] '[To [1] : you] sent
me a memorandum prepared by the Petroleum Department on this matter. [To [2],
[3] and [4] : A copy of it, I understand, was sent to you.] We have now prepared
a short commentary^] upon that memorandum, a copy of which I enclose. [To [2],
[3] and [4] : Would you kindly say whether you agree with the comments made in
this note, and, if not, what your views are on any particular points?]
[To [1] : You will see from paragraphs 3 and 7 of the note that we should
particularly like to have your views -as to a satisfactory rewording of Article 5 and as
to the exact proposals regarding pre-emption and refining which should be put to the
Company.]
[To [3] ; You will see from paragraph 7 of the note that we should particularly
like your views as to the exact proposals regarding pre-emption and refining which
should be put to the Company.]
As regards paragraph 6 of the note I enclose a copy of a letter** which was sent to
Mr. Duncan Smith (then the representative of the Company in London) about the
landing ground and seaplane station on Bahrein Island, and also a copy of the later
correspondenceft with the Air Ministry regarding a possible landing aground on
Muharraq Island.
* No. 17 in Middle East No. 32. t No. 75. J No. 85. § No. 82. ||No. 74.
H No. 87. ** No. 71 in Middle East No. 32. ff Nos. 7, 8, and 9.