'الملف 8/11 صحف محظورة ومقالات صحفية تحريضية' [و‎‎٥‎٣] (٢٦٠/١٠٥)

.Vhlle we were expecting a change In the policy
which has clearly manifested itself to have marred the
prestige and renown of Great Britain in the Ba»tem Verrit-
-ories of the Arabian Peninsula, lo we see Hajor Delly (Daly)
adopting fresh ways of aggression, evincing further stupid-
-ity by further proving himself to be the sole creator of
the galling miseries for Arabs in their own country. 3o
he has forced conscript labour on the helpless natives of
Bahrain driving them like cattle and subjecting them to hard
labour at w Ard n , announcing that he wanted to erect there a
station for airships. has transgressed the bounds of
law, indeed. ^outtesy is unknown to him. He did not
even ask Shaikh Isa, Chief of Bahrain, for his consent be-
-fore putting his scheme for erecting the said station into
effect. ^urther^i he has announced to have fixed a heavy
tax on all boats regardless of their being the pearl-fishing
farar iric ones or otherwise having changed their numbers into
English figures which the natives are not expected to make
out.
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^he most horrible act of his is that he has reducet
the members of the Ruling Chief's family to the state of
confinees in Bahrain; for when most of them asked for permit
to enable them to go abroad on medical grounds or some such
other urgent reasons the same was denied to them. Lately
he seems to have been much perturbed on reading articles In
newspapers criticising the course of policy pursued in Bahra
and attempted consequently to cause some respectable family
members of the Huling Chief by force to repudiate the said
articles as fAlse through newspapers, but in vain; for the
latter evon at the risk of exposing themselves to his reveng
on them, denied to agree with his request. It is likely
that some of them ultimately ma/ yield under his threats and
helplessly may attest a false statement he may dictate to
them.