"ملف رقم: E.7. قطر والاتفاقية الأنجلو تركية لعام ١٩١٣' [و‎‎٢‎١‎٤] (٤٦٠/٤٤٢)

encountered eachother on the coaet of M Wakrah ( a
village o Qatar) . Here tlie A1 Khalifah force wac defeat
ed and t '.e men were detained as prlsonere until their •
impriron^d Amir yrao liberated. This was immediately
done, as t e Kuler of Bahrain liberated Qasim and sent
him to his territory with honour and lieu of this
their Lhaifchs were liberated. A short time after the
occurence of these erents ,;uhammad bin j'hani died and
after hir death hit eon i aslm succeeded him as ruler.
Ali and
Aleo /hir brother uhammad died after some
events having taken place between the two brothers and
Lhaikh Isa then became the Huler of Bahrain, and his
paternal cousin Nasir bin .ubarak M Khalifah fought him
on account of the rule of Bahrain and some skirmishes
took place between them and upon this Shaikh Isa passed
orders for deportation of iiasir from Bahrain and hir p are
of property to be occupied. Kasir then took shelter
with Shaikh Qasim bin Thani and asked his help and he
helped him accordin to the cup torn of Arabs and ill-feel in*
existed for a long time between the Rulers of both tahrain
and C v atar for the reasons stated above.
he Kuler of , t atar then immediately fitted a
sailing battle phip taking .asir A1 Khalifah to ahrain.
When Shaikh Isa learnt the news he was terribly affraid
and asked the >ritish government through their Political
Arent for help and this officer communicated with the
Turkish Government at -ana through tneir Commispioner,
Ibrahim Pasha and after exchange of some communications
between the two, the Political Agent got into a man-of-war
and sailed out to encounter the above mentioned sailing
battle ship v/hich was coming to lahrain. hen those
neor^le (of Qatar) came to now the facts t. ey with ire-",
back with their shi 1 - in orier not to meet the British
ships and ais the war the nearert port to t er
they took sheltc 1^ it and yet t e -ritish s ips persved
them up to theis, and fired some sliells after giving t em