File 522/1922 Pt 4 'Persian Gulf: Bahrein: Internal' [‎177v] (359/616)

telegraphic message in reply to this Memorial and on the same being notified
to the people by Major Daly, the whole tribe of Ad-Davasir promptly emigrated
to the neighbouring Dominions of the Sultan of Mejd an eloquent index to the
intensity and depth of the peoples excitement resentment and desperation.
9 . Three days later, the Consul General arrived at Baharein and the
peoples chosen delegates addressed another Memorial to him detailing the peo
ples grievances, criticising the so called u reforms *' of Major Daly and express-
ing their determination to emigrate in a body from Baharein if Justice was re
fused and redress continued to be denied to them.
10 . Soon after, the Delegates were invited to the Consulate by the
Consul-General who addressed them in curt and threatening terms, refusing
to vouchsafe any answer to their Memorials or any redress of their grievances
and threatening drastic pains and penalties including confiscation of property
and ruination of valuable pearl-fishery trade, if the emigration resolve was
put into execution, and intimating that the neighbouring Arab Chiefs had
been instructed to turn the emigrants back and refuse them shelter.
11. conclusion of this intimidating address, two of the delegates
present viz. Shaikh Abdul Wahab Azzayani and Ahmed bin Lahej who had
taken a prominent part in representing the people were at once taken into a
room of the Consulate, and without any notice, explanation or inquiry were
en into custody in the name of the British Government, and promptly con-
y d to a British Man-of-War which was kept in readiness for the purpose
arge of three Military-men and ultimately deported to Bombay in such
y and on their arrival in Bombay detained in a private Hotel under the
veillance of the Police. All the oflfers of Arab friends of theirs who had
w of their arrival to put them up at their residences and to provide
substantial security for their behaviour were peremptorily refused. It was only
after Shaikh Abaul IVahab Aizayani moved the High Court of Justice at Bombay
for an Order under Section 491 of the Criminal Procedure Code and the writ
of Habeas corpus was issued by the High Court that he was set at-liberty.
airs at Baharein are going from bad to worse and the repressive
'onary policy of the British representatives is calculated to inflame
y populace of Baharein but the whole of the Arab Nation, and lead
to disastrous disturbances and commotion not easy to be quelled..