"ملف V/11 أوراق تخليص لمركب شراعي يغادر البحرين" [و‎‎٢‎١] (١٥٢/٥٣)

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NO. 2L>1 of 1916
British Residency and Consulate-General,
Busliire , 24th. May 1916,
To
His Excellency Shaikh Isa bin Ali A1 Khalifah C.S.I.,
Chief of Bahrein .
After Compliments,
I have been informed of your Excellency's request
that goods for certain Shaikhs of Shibkuh and Banadir i
Thalatheh ports on the Persian Coast should be exempted
from the decree, which it has been agreed that Your Excel-
lency will issue, prohibiting as an emergant and temporary
war measure the direct export of any goods at all to ports
on the Persian Coast other than Bander Abbas, Lingeh and
Bushire, and ordering boats with cargo for any other Per
sian ports to proceed first to one of the three principal
ports named,
I am well aware of the relations which you and mem
bers of your family have with certain of the Shaikhs whom-
you have named to the Political Agency at Bahrein, and
also of the frequent shipments of goods between some of
those ports and Bahrein. I should have liked to accept
your suggestion that the ports of these shaikhs should be
exempted from the prohibition but I regret I cannot do so
for the following reasons.
Your Excellency on your part is aware that the autho
rities of the High G-overnment have for some months past
had good reason for having the trafiic to and from the
small ports, on both side of the G-ulf strictly supervised,
and regulated, in order to prevent supplies reaching
places and persons hostilely inclined to the British Govern
ment. Boats sailing from Bushire to the ports in lower
Dashti or of the Banadir i Thalatheh, for instance, have
only been permitted to take small quantities of certain
goods under passes^ this is due to the hostility of some
of the Dashti sections who Joined on the. attack on Bushire-
If therefore the import of goods from Bahrein is
allowed
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