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Translation of* Ict'tcp datsdi Jamad. al AuwaJL 1352—
4,9.1933 from H,S.Shaikh Hamad bin f Isa al Khalifah,
C.S.I.jRuler of Bahrain to H.B.M's Political Agent*
Bahrain,
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f 1 received your letter dated the 2nd Sdpt%ber
1933 to the address of my Adviser enclosing a letter
addressed to me fro'n the Representative of the Petroeum
Company in Bahrain.
^ From this letter I came to understand that
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I Major Holmes will be compelled to vacate his present
l ^lu j position, as the Company wants to make changes about
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their Representative,
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0 In reply to this letter of yours,^I want to
say that if this is an order from the British Government
I am compelled to accept it and would not raise any
Objection about it. But if it is from the Company I
feel very much surprised and ask you to inform the
Company that they ought to consult me and take my views
about Major Holmes,as he was appointed by the Company
with my sanction and the consent of the British
Government,for we considered him to be a very efficient
person,
U X accepted the Respresentative to be an
English man, because I do not want a Representative
other than an English man. Therefore I fail to understanc
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how the Company will be able to change the Represent-
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ative, who was approved by me and/the British Government
without first informing me and taking my views about
him.
It will probably be said that the change was
due to me, for which reason I want to Ae informed about
the matter, as I have some suggestions to make in this
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