"ملف رقم II/٩ مذكرات معلومات من إدارة الخارجية بخصوص شؤون الخليج الفارسي ومسقط والساحل العربي من الخليج الفارسي. نوفمبر "٠٧ - ديسمبر "٠٨" [ظ‎‎١‎٦] (١٣٢/٣٤)

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Bahrein. They proposed to leave it to the
Turkish authorities to make the next move in
the matter, and stated that it seemed desir
able to restore the girl to her father and even
to try formally the man ‘ Ali bin Amar ’ if
the Turkish authorities sent the girl’s father to
Bahrein and agreed to recognise the jurisdic
tion of the joint Court held there under British
auspices.
In a despatch of the 26th April to the
Government of India the Secretary of State
for India concurred generally in the proposals
of the Government of India. The Political
Resident in the Persian Gulf was accordingly
informed.
On the 17th November 1907, the Political
Resident in the Persian Gulf reported that the
case had been tried by the local Kazi and that
the result of the trial had been satisfactory. At
the commencement of the trial the defendant
‘Ali produced a letter from the Kazi of Koweit
certifying that the girl had been married in his
presence to his servant Bashir, but the Kazi of
Manama had elicited the information that
Bashir was a slave at the time and for this and
various technical reasons ruled that the marriage
was null and void and declared that after the
expiry of the period of “iddat” the girl
would be at liberty to marry where she liked.
The Political Agent reported that the Turkish
subject Abdur Rahim bin Othman was absent
from Bahrein and that no other Turkish
subject had evinced any interest in the case.
207. {Vide paragraph 182, September
Quarantine arrange- 1207.) On the 7ti
ments in the Persian November 1907, th<
Qulf ' Secretary of State for
India telegraphed his approval to the proposals
made by the Government of India in their
telegram of the 21st September and stated that
His Majesty’s Government consented to bear
half the cost. The Government of India were
requested to take necessary measures to carry
out the proposals.
The decision of the Secretary of State
was accordingly communicated to the
Political Resident in the Persian Gulf.
208. {Vide paragraph 181, September
kottveit, 1907.) On the ■ 21st
Piracies committed on November 1907, the
a dnow - Secretary of State for
India telegraphed that the Tehran Legation had
been informed by telegraph that though the
sufferers in one of the piracy cases were Persian
subjects yet the British Government had a vital
interest in the suppression of piracy in Gulf
waters, and that, as regards the case in which
the crew and passengers of a Koweit boom
were murdered, the British Government were
bound to extend their good offices to Koweitis.
His Majesty’s Representative at Tehran was