"ملف ‏19/109 II (C 17)‎ البحرين: علاقات الحاكم مع القوى الخارجية الأخرى" [و‎‎١‎٣‎٢] (٥٣٤/٢٦٩)

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Copy of a letter No.387 /y .O. dated 2^th November 1920 from
the Political Agent,Bahrain to H.E.Shaikh Sir Isa,Ruler of
Bahrain,
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After compliments,
Reference your letter dated 7th Rabi-al-awal complain
ing that I had taken up the caee of
( l) The woman Latifah,
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(2^ The case of the crew of Nakhuda Abdullah bin Saif,
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in their complaint against their Nakhuda above mentioned,
both of which cases you complained ought to have been sent
before you,on the grounds that
( 1) the woman Latifah was a subject of your Excellency
(2) that the man Abdullah bin Saif was also a subject
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of your Excellency.
I was greatly surprised and pained to receive such a
letter from your Excellency,as it shows once more that your
Excellency is only too ready to listen to the advise and
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talk of people who for ever are endeavouring to spoil the
good relations that exist and have existed for so long
betwwen your Excellency and this Agency. I had occasion to
report to His Honour the Resident in the Persian Gulf some
time back that it was a matter of the greatest regret,that
your Excellency was so prone to listen to men whose only
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object was to create unfriendly feeling between myself and
your Excellency. It is with feeling cf sorrow that I see your
Excellency has not seen fit to take to heart the advise of
the Resident on the subject as written to you in his letter
No.4^9 dated 29th August 1920.
In order to show that I am not speaking idle words, I
propose now to point out to you the real facts of the two
cases complained of.
FIRST CASE .
The woman Latifah came to my court and complained
against a servant of Shaikh Hamad and others the nature of
her