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INDIA OFFICE, POLITICAL D epartment.
express letter (air mail).
(N.B.—This is an original message, sent by air mail to save telegraphic
expense, but intended to be treated on receipt with tlie same expedition' as
if it had been telegraphed. It has been drafted as if it were so despatched.)
From Secretary of State for India
To Political Resident in the Persian Gulf,
Dated 13th May, 1935.
No.
P.Z. 3209/35 j,- 4
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IJitik reference to the correspondence ending with my , *
telegram No.1466 of 11th May, and your telegram No*T/l36^ I
of the same date, copy is enclosed of the revised form, as
approved here, of the draft letter to he addressed to the
Sheikh, copy of which was enclosed with your express letter
of 25th April 1935, No-322-S
2* The following alterations in the copy of the
G-overnment agreement sent to you "by air mail of 16th March
1934, have also "been agreed on with the Company:-
(a) Preamble: After date insert "is".
(h) Clause 6, line 1: Amend to read "any right given to
the Company under its".
(c) Clause 11, line 3: Omit words M under the terms of
that Agreement"♦
(d) As reference to "national emergency" has "been
omitted in Clause 6 of Commercial Agreement, it is no
longer necessary to insert as Clause 7 of Government
Agreement a clause in terms of Article 7 of Koweit
Government Agreement.
(e) Refining Clause is in same terms as in Koweit
Agreement-
(f) In Schedule regarding preemption, at end of paragraph
3 insert a reference to the Arbitration Act of 1934.
3. A copy of the draft Government Agreement
embodying these amendments is enclosed. ^ ^