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Persian Gulf. Major Holmes, however, on behalf of the
Eastern and General Syndicate obtained promises of concessions
from the Shaikhs of Bahrain and Kuwait by approaching them
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personally with the result that the Anglo-Persian Oil Company
forgeited their ahance of obtaining concessions while a
lengthy correspondence was taking place between the Government
Departments concerned, the Government of India, the Political
Resident in the -t/ersian Gulf and the High Commissioner for Iraq#
(2) In 1925, Major Holmes, acting on behalf of the Eastern
and General Syndicate (which was then purely a British Company)
made certain proposals to the Shaikh in regard to the grant of
a concession which were not, however, acceptable to him. The
Anglo-Persian Oil Company also continued to negotiate without
succ ess •
(3) In March,1926, the Eastern and General Syndicate
commenced operations ( by arrangement with the Shaikh) to drill
for water in Kuwait, and undertook to sink two wells within the
area surrounded by the town wall of Kuwait. After several
failures the first well reached a depth of 700 feet without
8-triking water. It was apparently as the result of information
disclosed by these water boring operations that the interest of
the Syndicate in the oil prospects of Kuwait was further
stimulated. (It should be noted that these operations had
nothing ostensibly to do with prospecting for oil, the Shaikh
having refused to grant to A aJ or Holmes an oil prospecting
lie ence.}
In September, 1928, however. Major Holmes, with the
permission of the Political Resident, again approached the
Shaikh for the grant of an oil concession, and submitted a
draft agreement.
(5) In November, 1928, it was realised that the point
concerning