'File No. II/9 Foreign Dept Memoranda of Information re. affairs in Persian Gulf, Maskat & Arabian Shore of the Persian Gulf. Nov '07 - Dec '08.' [‎35r] (71/132)

90. {Vide para. 68, April 1908.) On
the 30th April 1908, 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.
Lingah had recently taken off from the mail
steamer five subjects of Shargah, and had im
prisoned them without reference to the
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. Agent. He stated that the desir
ability of dealing simultaneously with the
question of the protection of Bahreinis and
with that of the protection of the subjects of
the Trucial Chiefs was thereby accentuated.
On the 1st May 1908, His Majesty’s
Secretary of State for Boreign Affairs te'e-
graphed that the act of reparation and justice to
the injured Bahreini appeared to constitute
in itself a recognition of the right of His
Majesty’s Government to protect subjects of
Bahrein, and that, if the claim of the Persian
Government was not reiterated, there was no
need to effect or to threaten the occupation of
an island in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. in order to enforce
the claim. Mr. Marling on the 2nd May 1908
telegraphed that he had informed the Foreign
Office that no amended note had been given
to him and that, although he had succeeded
in the Lingah case in obtaining substantial
justice, the general question of protection of
Bahreinis remained practically unaltered.
He further stated that he entirely concurred
in the view of Major Cox, and that, if the
Persian Government continued obstinate, he
would strongly urge that coercive steps should
be taken. On the 18th May the Political Resi
dent in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. telegraphed that the
Foreign Office had directed His Britannic
Majesty’s Charge d’Affaires at Tehran to press
the Persian Government to send an amended
note without delay, but had intimated that the
general question for the present should not be
raised unless the note contained any expression
which could be construed as disputing British
rights and unless further oases arose. As
regards the protection of subjects of Trucial
Chiefs, the assurances given to His Majesty’s
Consul-General at Bushire appeared to the
Foreign Office sufficient, if carried out, to satisfy
the needs of the case in question. The Poli
tical Resident, in another telegram of the
same date, explained to Mr. Marling that the
Governor had given no assurances in regard
to the actual case of the Bahreini, but had
several times stated that he had instructions
to treat Bahrein as Persian territory. The
Deputy Governor of Lingah had, however, been
suspended in connection with this and other
cases. It was further explained that one of
the Lingah factions, aided by Mr. Brown and
by the Russian Consular Agent, were trying
to get him reinstated. As no compensation
The flogging of a
Bahreini subject by the
Deputy Governor of
Dingah.
BAHREIN.
in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
telegraphed to Mr.
Marling that the
Deputy Governor of