"ملف رقم: E.7. قطر والاتفاقية الأنجلو تركية لعام ١٩١٣' [و‎‎٦‎٧] (٤٦٠/١٥٠)

nji.i Say Id GHaK^r Effenai, both Arsbs of Baghaad, la aggln
afcout raising a aubacrlptlon for thorn, but this his fallen
through. Tho feeilno for the i in Q tr was ipp r )ntly
jujt as favounblo is here, but l33t wooK a fr toae too 1 : -place
between them and the Inhabitants in which 14 of tho latter
I have no record of Jasolm bin Thanhs ever having objoctod
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dono so m spite of his doslre to nia::e a treaty with ua.
To attaoK thorn without con3ultlng hln might therjforo be
looked on as a broach of our undortaxin^ not to carry the
war into Arabia except In protection of the Intoreats of tho
The TurKa have probably no stomach for a 0:0-
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at the first ahell from a snipa
objoct in moroly Xnoc ln^ ^own tho fort without landing a
party sufficiently strong to prevent this or at lea t to
■ia iblo the .^uns, I gather fro you nd Ca t iln Dunn's
■esorlptlon of the place that the ralnlmum landing party should
be . t Uion, or, i; th to v.-ore any cha ice of the inh bit-
-^nt3 Joining th >, a full Battalion,
Shaikh Abdullah lives t^o d lya march In the int rr
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thit might be caused by our bombarding the fort, md,
inh.oit nts were dra.vn into It and ho failed to turn up,
no good "ould result.
1 > •- g rrlson has melted away so r ipidly without the .ledortors
t^juhilag us in Bahr ain that I consider it would be best to
: ^ ' -di^ c aone til] a Battalion can be spared from Iraq,
time
r > , : will probably be only too slad to