"ملف ‏19/109 II (C 17)‎ البحرين: علاقات الحاكم مع القوى الخارجية الأخرى" [و‎‎٣‎٢] (٥٣٤/٦٩)

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No - 1913*
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POLITICAL AGENCY, BAHREIN#
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Major A.P. Trevor, C .I.E., ' 29j0¥jil3
Political Agent, Bahrein• -1 ^S/ a N
To
Sir,
Lieut-Oolonal Sir Percy Oox, KoC»I.Eo, C *S .X«,
Political Resident in the Persian Gulf.
^ Dated Bahrein^ the 24th November 1915«
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I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your
letter No.3365 dated 9th November, regarding the diary
reports referring to Messrs# Rosenthals dealings in house
property.
I am of opinion that what the representative of the
y the
firm wants to get are office on^ea face in town and some
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sort of small residence outside near the quarantine station
Last year he kept his motor boat near the quarantine
station, sand j[ i'stncy that his intention is to reside at
^hazeib^a (the village near quarantine station) in the
very hot weather, durimg August and Ist half of September,
and to come round to office in the motor boat whenever the
state of the tide is propitious.
It will be observed that Mr# Habib has not, so far,
made any attempt to buy a house, but only to lease.
However when I heard about the grouni at ^hazeibiya
being sold to Ali bin Ibrahim Zayani, Messrs. Rosenthal's
principal broker, 1 got a suggestion made privately to
Sheikh Isa as to the advisability of putting a special
clause in the deed of sale prohibiting sale to Foreigners.
I found that Sheikh Isa is averse from doing this, as he
seems to think that it is infra dig; in some way^ so when
recently a sale deed of some land bought by Yusuf Kanoo
came to me for registration,? took the oppotunity of
advising Sheikh Isa officially on this point. I append