"ملف رقم ٠٦٢٩ مراسلات تتعلق بالأرض الواقعة تحت مياه البحر خارج المياه الإقليمية" [و‎‎٢‎٨] (٩٤/٥٥)

as long as the Company's activities were limited to survey
work, but Henderson agrees that the only hope of improved
relations at present lies in our insisting that all complaints
of a major nature by either the Ruler or the Company, be made
through the Political Officer, Trmcial Coast. Ty>is is a
nuisance, in that the Agency is some 80 miles from the camps
and some 100 miles from Abu Dhabi town, but in the interests
of stopping trivial complaints and petty interference on the
one hand, and of providing some sort of disinterested check
on living conditions on the other, it is a procedure which X
am bound to recommend.
7. I propose, subject to your approval, to inform the
Ruler firstly that the P.C.L.concession was made with H.M.G’s
approval, and that H.M.G. is interested in ensuring that its
terms are carried out by both sides. (The Shaikh has been
trying tp propagate the story that because the Agreement
bears no signature by H.xM.G^ representative, it is purely a
private document as between himself and P.C.L.). Secondly,
I propose to tell him that all complaints or requests
concerning the Company of anything but a routine nature should
be made through the P.O.T.C. and that under no circumstances
should his guards or relatives interfere with the operations
in the various camps. I should be grateful for your
instructions.
J.A.F.Gethin, Esquire,
H.B.M's Political Agent,
BAHRAIN.