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'F.85 File 82/27-IV Qatar Oil' [‎41r] (90/422)

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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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3. 3^
for two days (difficulty had arisen through the delays and
uncertainties of launch conununication with Qatar)was at
Urnm al Quhaib (an hour's motor drive in the interior), and was
not well enough to come in again. It was arranged that I should
go to see hira the next morning, accompanied by Group Captain Saul
and the Officer Commanding, H.M.S Bideford, Captain C. Austin-
Browne.
b. Early on the morning of the 10th May we proceeded by
car to Umm al Quhaib, where the Shaikh was living in bedouin
style. I think that, though he is often troubled by his lee-,
was
his indisposition/on this occasion an excuse, partly due to the
fact that he had already waited two days in Doha at a time of
the year when he is not usually there and partly due to uncer
tainty as to wJiat our activities portended. ^ ^
After coffee and tea I delivered orally ty'tne Shaikh,
in the presence oi his sons Shaikhs 'Ali and Hama^ the message
contained in the Secretary of State for India's"telegram No:1154
dated the and May 1934 and at his specific request sent to him
on my return to H.M.S Bideford a letter containing the message.
After an early meal with the Shaikh we returned to Doha.
6. Shaikh 'Abdullah appeared to me to be impressed by
the message regarding Bin Sa'ud's eastern boundary and the
British Sphere, but I had a feeling that it was not entirely
fresh news to him. I will not trouble you with details of the
conversation, but, though it appears that the news of Bin Sa'ud's
victories has had a considerable effect on men's minds, it seems
to me that Shaikh 'Abdullah is more inclined to our side than
he was. I attribute this to his gradually realising, firstly,
that His Majesty's Government are in earnest and, secondly, that
they still possess the power to make their will felt and are
prepared to use that power. He has still, however, I think,
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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.

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1 volume (207 folios)
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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.

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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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