ملف ١٩٢٦/٣٩٣٩ الجزء ٦ "تنقيح معاهدات أيتشيسون. قسم الخليج الفارسي." [و‎‎٣‎٠‎٩] (٨١٨/٥٣)

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PERSIAN GULF— Bahrein.
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?od7t%X!’wherefh T et^fader m s«lte! r b be ; f ] Bahrein rCm0Ved in a '
into relations with Shaith Jasim’ bin Than”.' ThriatterTft '’“r 6 ' 1
sibly endeavouring to effect a +• r , la iter, after osten-
and tiie seceding tribe, resolved to settle thrAuTnAli h6 t Z^ 11
proposal was supported by the authorities of Hasa who at Th ‘ S
* d a Mud,r and a gnu-boat to the scene and caused the OH ^ deS | atch -
be hoisted there. In spite of the presence of i n . i 0 1 ttoraan fla g to
H.M.S. Sphinx and H M.S. PiarL ' * f 1 Bntlsh men -of-war,
ously threatened, and a large number o^ ! nV ^ 810n Bahrein was seri-
Jasim for the purpose. Eventuallv the Br'rV ^ as coIlected V Shaikh
Sion; the Mudir retired to Hasa; and 120 more boats ' '
and removed to Bahrein, two-thirds of them hc,™ Z surrendered
and one-third restored to their owners on navmert f Bu wquently burnt
majority of the A. bin AH retard oBaZTn 'tf^/ 119
After the accession of Shaikh Esa, the Turkish authorities on several
occasions evinced a disposition to interfere in the affairs of Bahrein bu!
Turkish U ‘ VarU ‘ bI - V aSS9rted * he Chief ’ s independence from
In 1880 Shaikh Esa signed an Agreement (No. XII), undertaking to
abstain from entering into negqrtiations or making treaties with Ly
foreign power without the consent of the British Government. X
In 1892 Shaikh Esa signed an Agreement (No. XIII), promising to
enter into no agreement or correspondence with any other power tha/the
B tish, to disallow the residence within his territory of the agent of any
o er power, and neither to cede, sell, mortgage nor otherwise give for
occupation any part of his territory save to the British Government.
In 1893 the Porte objected to British officials taking up the cases of
Bahrein subjects suffering from the piracies of the Beni Haiir They
.were informed in reply that Bahrein was under British protection-
Eater in the same year a claim was put forward by the Porte to treat'
the people of Bahrein as Turkish subjects within Ottoman territories.
be British Government, however, maintained its right to extend British'
p^-o ection to the subjects of the Shaikh whenever occasion might demand.
In 1898 Sheikh Esa signed an Agreement (No. XIV) absolutely pro-
mbiting the importation and exportation of arms into and from his ter
ritory.
av 1900 8 Politica, ' A g enc y, subordinate to the Political Resident iff
the I ersian Gulf, was established at Bahrein.
v I °. I) . eC ® mber 1900 a cousin of tb e Chief of Bahrein named Salman'
bm Diaij, his son, nephew and 23 followers, were attacked on thi J&fc&ha-