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'F.85 File 82/27-IV Qatar Oil' [14r] (36/422)
The record is made up of 1 volume (207 folios). It was created in 1 May 1934-1 Jul 1934. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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lie and are in agreement. Any written coramunication
to ShaiMi should therefore be in following terras, begins:
"I am directed by the
Political Resident
A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency.
to inform
you with reference to your recent conversations
with him that the "^astern frontier of Saudi
Arabia dividing that territory from the territories
in South-eastern Arfebia falling within the British
sphere was laid down in two conventions of 1913 and
of 1914 between His Majesty^ Government and the
late Ottoman Government which then ruled the
territories to the West of the British sphere
which are now Saudi Arabia and that this frontier
runs from the head of the bay opposite ZAKHMTNIYA
o
Island due south to parallel 20 North. His
Majesty's Government have recently had occasion
to make it clear to King Ibn Saud that they
regard this frontier as still operative and
legally binding. The area between this frontier
and the Line to the North of which Kis Majesty's
■
Government are prepared in certain circumstances
to grant you protection, as recently explained
to 3^ou by the
Political Resident
A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency.
, falls within
the British sphere. Ends,
- SECRETARY OF STA'TS FOR IJJDIA -
(Copy forwarded to T 3 .A.Bahrain under P.L.
TTo.433-S of 3/5/34).
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- Content
The volume contains correspondence between the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. at Bahrain and the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. at Bushire, the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. in London, the Shaikh of Qatar, ‘Abdullāh bin Jāsim Āl Thānī, and the Foreign Office in regard to the southern borders of Qatar, the Qatar oil concession and the relations of the Shaikhdom with ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd (Ibn Sa‘ūd), King of Saudi Arabia. There is also correspondence regarding an air reconnaissance of Qatar to be carried out via RAF flying boats, which took place on 9 May 1934, including reports of the reconnaissance (folios 147-154).
Some of the documents in the volume are marked as secret or confidential.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (207 folios)
- Arrangement
The documents in the volume are mostly arranged in chronological order. There are notes at the end of the volume, (folios 196-202). The file notes are arranged chronologically and refer to documents within the volume; they give brief description of the correspondence with reference numbers in red crayon, which refer back to that correspondence in the volume.
- Physical characteristics
The main foliation is written in pencil, circled, and can be found in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio.The numbering begins on the title page, on number 1, and ends on the inside of the back cover, on number 207.
There is another foliation sequence, incomplete.
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- English in Latin script View the complete information for this record
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- Reference
- IOR/R/15/1/629
- Title
- 'F.85 File 82/27-IV Qatar Oil'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1r:90v, 91v:118v, 121r:168v, 169v, 172v, 174v, 175v:206v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
- Usage terms
- Open Government Licence