مجموعة ١٧٠/٣٠ "مسألة ملكية جزيرتي البيّنة." [و‎‎٨‎٩] (٢٥٩/١٨٠)

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and if they can get on to this work at once i - wi*^ j.sve
much time in subsequent geological and geophysical work
The Bahrain Government are perfectly pre
pared to allow them to do so, and since it is mapping
work only I see no reason why we should object to the
general plan. It involves only erecting concrete
platforms as bases for instruments on certain of the
islands and reefs where the Bahrain Government marks al
ready exist, together with “targets" on others. T
nxade it clear that the party must not on any account land
on Bain as Gaghir or Bain al Kabir - or even at Hawar for
the time being; but otherwise T see no harm in n.ear
working on tills triangulation inside the area enclosed in
the lines marked on the Bahrain Government's rough sketch
attached to your Express Letter No.C/331 dated the 7th May
to the India Office. This work in fact might be extremely
useful to us, for inevitably the Bahrain Petroleum Company
will ask for a definition of the boundaries of the Unallotted
Area on the eastern side of Bahrain,
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The party would be in a launch and would be accompanied by
a Bahrain Government representative, probably a Police > . . .0.
I concur with the Political Agent that theie is
no harm in this work being
5. The Political Agent is of opinion that there is
a great deal to be said for following up the suggestion made
by Yusuf Yasin (paragraph 3 of Jedda despatcn Mo. 40, la ted
2nd March 1939, to the Boreign Office) for ’♦drawing a line
midway between Bahrain and the mainlandThis line could
then be produced indefinitely to the North. T concur.