ملف ١٩٢٢/٥٢٢، جزء ١، "الخليج الفارسي: شؤون البحرين: تقاعد الشيخ عيسى؛ الإصلاحات" [و‎‎١‎٠‎٩] (٨٠٤/٢٢٨)

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.ue Political uigert Hahroin
’ '" i ’ rain * woul<i have no diifi ci)1tv .
impreepirg upon the Majlis that when outran v
S — must suffer, and the sufferer voum !
nearest hostile village urtn tv ■ i^ariiy oe the
1o . + ar ''’ Urt11 th ey cleared themselves Th lB
is a point of view whirh t -h • es * J - ias
the t it ■ . ’ 1 telleve > lB Quite faminar or
e Incxan frontier and accepted bv * rlb(aRm
c ‘-'o' ^ri.D@srnen p’grp-rqiitr
perfectly reasonable and the it-tm ' " a “
e ana °rtimry method of dealing r ^
outrages where ordinary police work fails. '
1 Sh0alQ fUrther ! ' aVb tllo u £ he that it ought not to be
01 iCUlt t0 teal ra drastically with influential persons
Wh0 ’ 8ulTEr ‘ 0ned t0 Perfora a public duty, decline to attend,
they might, lor instance, be fined, for contumacy and that
should quickly bring them to their senses.
In order to complete the correspondence I air, now
forwarding a full copy of my letter N0.527-S which read with
the Political Agent's report under special notice, throws
considerable light on the camel problem.
I am forwarding s copy of this letter to the Political
Agent, Bahrain, and would aek that I may be favoured with an
expression oi the views of the Government of India or the
Questions raised in this correspondence, viz ( 1 ) the imposi
tion of a sense of collective responsibility for outrages, it
(2) the camel difficulty. The fact that these two matters
have been brought to the notice oi high authority which is
taking a direct interest in their solution, would,I think,
greatly strengthen the hands of the Political Agent, in
pressing his views on Shaikh Hamad. I think that the latter
hardly realises how immensely it would strengthen his own
position if he appeared to be acting not entirely of himself
but urged thereto by a healthy public opinion which had come
to the conclusion that fanatical outrages must inevitably
lead to trouble for the communities that encourage them if
not for the actual perpetrators*
I have,etc.,
Sd/~ S.C.Knox,
Lt. COl. s
Political Resident in the Persian Cull.