File 4535/1928 Pt 8 ‘ – PERSIAN GULF – QUESTION OF ESTABLISHMENT OF PROTECTORATES OVER KOWEIT, BAHREIN, MUSCAT, TRUCIAL COAST.’ [‎94r] (181/194)

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.i. ln „ PI . ° f u Indla asked the Resident whether he was not in
de-ired th/shpfhh i K bey t ond 1 what was laid down by them, and stated that they
not mer-V MW be actl y el >' associated with the measures of amelioration and
•isl-ed whelhpr !n i P ass ively in the wake of changes pressed upon them. They
n ashed whether an Arab from Irak or Egypt could not function as director of customs
unnecessary to go into the further correspondence on the subject.
n f ‘ » January 1924 Mr. de Grenier took over the appointment of director of
and hTl’qt^ “ ‘i 16 . same y ear a ? or P s o f Baluchis was raised under a British officer
administration adV1Ser WaS a PP 0ln ted, who deals with judicial, financial and general
'■ffipillh ° f a com P nation Of a record of rights, it came to light that
Sheikh Isa had frequently sold the same plot twice to different people and had given
documents for land included in the property of others. g
41. Outrages against life and property now began to be common of which
tte aTThEf y Sheikh Khalid and hlS SOnS ' members of Sheikh Isa^famity!
t r 3 iPj Ibe 24th July, 1924, the foreign Secretary wrote that “ the Government
of linha had no desire to proceed further or faster than they could carry the sheikh
wholeheartedly with them. They think 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. and the politfcal resident
India’ 1,0Wn & tendency to treat tke lsland to ° much on the lines of a native State in
Colonel Prideaux reported that he had obtained the impression that Sheikh
Hamad wholeheartedly approved of the reforms
it u 3 ' 0 H w e 13th Februar y. !925. Sheikh Isa submitted an appeal to his
Excellency the Viceroy against his deposition. PP
■ . In ; * t , he , says ' ‘ reforms ’ which my subjects did not want or demand and
for concession's^to foreign^yndicates^ 6 ^ ° f f ° rCing ° n me inadmissible d ^ a nds
u re . fers t0 the resolutions passed by his chiefs of tribes, of which one was
thp .v G ?p tlsh consul should abide by the contents of the treaty contracted between
affairs ,t, h G ° Vernment and that of Bahrein and should not meddle with internal
He concluded :—
. „ b 1S /W • ■ • • th e intolerable persecution to which I myself have
been subjected in breach of treaty obligations in the matter of my prerogatives
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44 At the beginning of Sheikh Hamad's rule affairs in Bahrein were in chaos
hi mlrule CeS w: V r h e 1Ch f OWed , t fi hel V n0eptl0n t0 the Party Whkh desired Sheikh Isa and
his misrule, were rife, and finally an attempt was made on Sheikh Hamad’s life.
th* 4 ' In 1 ?r 6 n he suhahdar commanding the Baluch levies was killed by one of
hatX yS 'V he t f ° rce ’ and 5 a i or Daly was attacked and wounded. I consfder
that this incident though it had some connection with the general unrest need not
~r :^t,^ tlC f lly ' Itb :r J n0 A n rab -g-fi-nce, except Is a symptom of
Iheikh Hamad’s liL n ° dU6 t0 th6 ° aUSeS Which P receded the att e m Pt on
PnniIh e i^t,!!^ h t LeVy r°^ P 5 was .. however, abolished, and an armed police corps of
•h Mahometans enlisted, again under a British officer.
political ae-en^L^^T 1§ Sheikh Is a meets 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. and 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. , and he draws his allowance. The Dowasir tribe who left Bahrein
re coming back again on the conditions which we named and we are attemntin^
more and more to make Sheikh Hamad the obvious head of the State. attemptln g
noliHoai But , lt ls , stl l l obviou s to the world that Sheikh Hamad does what the
p tical agent wants him, that he frequently does what he does not want because
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. tells him-we should say advises him. ’ 1SG
i glaring example of this is the Dowasir case, in which the Dowasir mrl all
e island knew that Sheikh Hamad’s sympathies were with the expelled tribe and
he joined with that tribe to obtain Ibn Sand’s recommendation to u S in order to make
easier his task of obtaining their return to Bahrein.
Who Ik wk he 4ST we ^ ave a British administrator, a servant of the State,
the chief of nnlio nll h F a ? lad on trlbu nals; we have the customs director and
•nd.XiW.'S.d" * PP ° ,nW ^ ,h ' Bri “ 0.ver„»e M . tho.f*