'File A/3 Miscellaneous correspondence with Bushire Residency' [‎28r] (61/96)

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Govemment who enjoys influence in Bahrain, f? What is the object
of this?” Does it mean looking for prepared property at a low
cost for the Colonial Saxons who filled up Bahrain on the plea
of producing and developing oil? If so, Bahrain has wide lands
and all its soil is fertile and they are in a position to
possess any land they want without any cost and aafr cultivate
it and erect their buildings on it as there is nothiigto prevent
them from doing so as long as the British rule exists in Bahrain.
But the usurpation of the property of the people and giving
them as an allowable marsel to their fellow countrymen is a
matter towards which one cannot keep ailent. By this they create
difficulties for themselves in %is time in which they are more
in need of assistance of the Arabs, their friendship, and
gaining their amity.
The second object is the driving away of the
subjects of His Majesty King Ibn Saud from Bahrain. Has the
Government of His Majesty Ibn Saud forced the foreigners to sell
the properties owned by them in their country so that the
British should take retaliatory action. The answer is, No,but
tne whole fact is that they stopped tne sale of property in
order to prevent their subjects from falling into insolvency
sind getting all their properties out of their hands to those
of the foreigners as was the case in Palestine. It should not
be concealed that there would have been in it the finger of
tne British naa the flood of the sale of properties not been
stopped to a limit. Ibn Saud T s Government did not compel the
foreign landowners to sell their properties but that it made
them more comfortable than their own subjects. They exempted
them irom many taxes such as f Jihad 1 etc. Is this the reward
for respect and good neighbourly relations? The notice in
Article 4 says that within three months of tne date of tne saic
notification every foreigner should submit to the Court of 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. etc., At last in the event of disagreement the
Court of 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. shall appoint a third assessor
whose decision shall be final. Who is the Bahrain Government
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