'File 5/9 Activities of Major Holmes: death' [‎2r] (3/32)

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The Political agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. ,
Kuwait.
The 14th. March, 1945.
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I enclose copies of telegrams seen in censor
ship for your information.
?• . I tried without disclosing the source of my
information — to find out from Holmes what concessions
were referred to; but he treated me to a long rigmarole
on the iniquities of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company and
tried to give the impression that he was trying to buy
back certain alienated interests in the oil concessions
for the sea-bed areas round Bahrain; but the telegrams
would appear to indicate that he was trying to sell
something possibly the interest in that concession
that remains to him and his partners. He wanted to see
Hamilton in Bahrain, but instead met Ed. Skinner of the
Bahrain Petroleum Company in Basra by appointment.
3. I am not aware of Holmes’ remaining interest in
the Bahrain or Qatar oil concessions and these telegrams
do not convey much to me. I trust, however, that wiey
are more intelligible to you.
The Hon'ble
Sir Geoffrey Prior f K.C.I.E.,
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