"ملف 10/1 الامتياز النفطي بالبحرين" [و‎‎٨‎٩] (٤٧٦/١٩٢)

that in his letter of <ind August lie jaad indicated tiiat
referanee to iian i'rancisco, v/iiicix iiad been made by air
mail from jew ^ork, was necessary; tiiat Jie noted that
the time limit within the uompany could submit
an offer was six weeks from the 1st Augustj and that
he would in due course, in the iignt of the
instructions received irom the Company> if they desired
to submit an offer, sufcu t such an offer within the
time limit specified. i understood that he will
probably write us a letter in tnese terms, and send
you this note of our telephone conversation now for
record.
j . aeuain & copies or this letter to Earner
at the foreign ufiice and to iiing at tne Admiralty.
ilours sincerely#
SD/ d. (i. LAITHWAITS.
£l*j£* Ballantyne has just rung up again. He wished
to be clear as to tne relation betv/een the Company's
application for an extension of tne praspecting
licence arid the application for an extension of the
area over which tne Company might operate.
1 said tnat, as he would remember. Major Holmes
nad put forward last April an application for an
extension of tne prospecting licence, witn, as an
alternative, a suggestion tnat the company should be
given an extension of tne area over which they might
operate to 200,000 acres coupled with an extension to
1935 ol tne prospecting licence. xne question of the
extmsion of the prospecting licence and of tne
extension of tne area had become involved in one
another, li he now wisned to deal with them separately
he had better say so.
Mr/