مجموعة ٣٠/٨٧(٢) الجزء II "قطر: الامتياز النفطي - عمليات شركة امتيازات النفط المحدودة." [و‎‎٣‎٦] (٦٠٣/٧٢)

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the whole way from near Sitra Island to Qatar c.f. paragraph 8 of
letter No.l26-S of the 18th January ? 1 94Z and the argument used by
v a yShaikh might be used for allotting the shoals to Qatar rather than to
' Bahraim.
3. Reference paragraph 5 of the Shaikh's letter regarding
Janan Island, if the contention in paragraph 3 of the Shaikh's letter
which has been discussed in paragraph 1 above is accepted then Janan
n automatically fall to Bahrain. Apart from this the reasons for
allotting Janan to Qatar have been fully discussed in paragraph 3 of
my letter No.l26-S and in paragraph 14of Galloway's letter No.C/1450
which formed an enclosure to it. It is true that the Bahrain Govern
ment included Janan in lists of the Hawar Islands which they submitted
in 1936 and 1938 in connection with the negotiations for the additional
areas and their omission of it in the list which they submitted in
1938 with specific reference to the dispute over the ownership of the
Hawar Islands was perhaps accidental. No mention of the island was
made in the correspondence with His Majesty's Government on the owner
ship question and the Shaikh was merely informed that His Majesty's
Government had decided that the Hawar Islands belonged to the State of
Bahrain and not to the State of Qatar. In the Adviser's letter to
which a reference is made in the letter communicating His Majesty's
Government's decision the islands are described as "consisting of one
large island two or three small islands and a number of. rocky islets"
vide enclosures forwarded with Residency Express Letter No.423-S
dated 29th April 1939 A At the time the Bahrain Government almost
certainly regarded the decision as covering Janan Island but the point
was not specifically considered by this Residency or the Political
Agency. Our case for allotting it to Qatar must rest on the fact that
it wa^hot specifically included in the Hawar group when the decision
was made and that we do not consider it to be a part of the group as it
is separated from all the other islands by a deep water channel.
4. I do not propose to suggest in more detail the lines on
which a reply should be made to the Shaikh until the official reactions
of the Bahrain Petroleum Company and the other parties to the case
have been received.
Sd/- W.R. Hay.
Political Resident, Persian Gulf.
ATTESTED
For Secretary to the
Political Resident, Persian Gulf.
LB'