"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎٣‎١‎٧] (١٧٨٢/٤٦٠)

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failed to establish any claim to compensation ; but after great delay the
arms se.zed were voluntarily returned to them by the Shaikh in a
damaged condition. Ultimately the firm became bankrupt.
In tSQS alter the case just mentioned, the Shaikh of Bahrain was in-
uced to prohibit the arms and ammunition trade in his dominions under
pain o confiscation, and to authorise action by British men -of-war against
Bahrain vessels suspected of carrying consignments
Sanitajy organisation in the Persian Gulf, 1894-99,
The appearance of bubonic plague in India in 1896, which was the
prmcipal cause of the assembling of an international Sanitary Conference
Venice m 1897 having been held to necessitate the institution of
qyantine m the Persian Gulf, various measures were taken there which
jealousies of rival powers invested with political significance. The
Convention of Venice, ratified by Britain and Persia but not by Turkey
contempiated the establishment of a sanitary station at the entrance of tte
tTon ofl 7T r f ^ ^ ,,ad VainIy the
tion of Kuwait or the station which it was intended to create at the
afte • tb" C "f and the Constantiuo l ,le Health, immediately
would / " n TT?' PmP T e '' a . seheme by whieh p** »nder control
and 'O "'. "f T S 111 m an<1 Qatar ' as wel1 as at Kuwait, Qatif,
Qatif 4 T''n Its exeont,on was prevented except at Kuwait, and at
Oatif and Oqair whicb were admittedly Turkish possessions. A further
1, 0 ' " as lnai e b y ' Jlul ' k ey to secure, for political reasons, the transfer of
e . asrah lazaret to Pao ; but it tailed. In 1899 a Turkish suggestion
or es a dishing in Bahrain a sanitary station to be controlled from Cons-
tantmople was again rejected.
The Persian Government, by an agreement with Britain, confided all
quarantine arrangements at their ports to British agency; and British
medical subordinates were immediately posted to Bandar 'Abbas Lingeh
and Muhammareh. There was already a commissioned British' medical'
0 cei a ushehr, to whom was entrusted the management of the quaran
tine at that place and the direction of the sanitary operations elsewhere
upon 10 coast of Persia. The activity of the British medical staff gave
use to slight popular disturbances at Bushehr in 1899.
The Sultan of 'Oman and the Shaikh of Bahrain at first rejected
Bntish assistance and made, or proposed to make, quarantine arrange-
ments of their own. b
Results of
the Venice
Sanitary
Conference,
1897.
Sanitary
arrange
ments Oil
the Persian
coast en
trusted to
British
agenoy.
Arrange
ments in the
Sultanate of
'Oman and
Bahrain.