"ملف 19/243‏ II (C 72)‎ الزبارة" [و‎‎٥‎٥] (٤٤٤/١٢٠)

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tolerated raucii. Being anxious for their safety and for tne
comfort of all, I tolerated for about 3 montns hoping that
they would submit to me in an amicable way, but this my
toleration did not do anything but made them show more
arrogance and hostility and spread a spirit of corruption
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amongst all my subjects. I, therefore, terminated the truce
with Rashid bin Muhammad and his followers. Your Honour also
stated that you have heard from the Political Agent, Bahrain,
that the negotiations are still going on. It may not be mdden
from Your Honour that these negotiations took a long time and
the representatives of His Highness the Ruler of Bahrain are
insisting in their hostile claims against me, my town and my
boundary. Ly representatives are staying in Bahrain in the
hope that His Highness the Ruler of Bahrain may agree to my
proposals but it is regretted that they contempted my
representatives, closed down the guest house which you ordered
tor them and turned them out ol it in an indecent way. They
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wrote a letter to my represetatives which indicates that they
are terminating the negotiations on their side, a copy of which
is enclosed for your perusal. Later my representatives remain
ed for some days during which period they subject to
cruelty and contempt. No result has^ been achieved out of these
lengthy negotiations. Your Honour also said that I must have
received, long prior to tnis date, the proposals ol His High
ness the Ruler of Bahrain to the elfect that one of his
relatives may meet with two of my relatives in connection with
these matters. Yes, on 20th June 193? equivalent to 11th
Rabi Thani 1356 I received a letter irom the Political Agent,
Bahrain on this subject. It reached me one night before this
your letter. Your Honour said that you presume tnat it reached
me long before the receipt ol this your letter, but there was
n o space ol time between that letter and your letter save that
■•^ich I mentioned above, i sent him a reply saying that if
Highness the Ruler of Bahrain, as he(Political Agentjsaid,
he 0 ^ce^mg ou uw htid between his brotner Shailch ^bdulla
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