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'F.85 File 82/27-IV Qatar Oil' [159r] (326/422)
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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82/27 ^
Telegram xx
j'rom His Maj eaty 1 s Minister, Jedda.
To H^M 1 s Secretary of 3tate for foreign
Affairs, London, Ho# 147
Repeated to Government of India, Simla, Ho# 36
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.
, Bushire, Ho. 127
Dated 22nd (received 23rd June) 1934•
y
Your telegram 143#
Kote from Saudi Government dated June
20th invokes principle (whcih it represents as "being
same as that stated by me on basis of paragraph 3
of your telegram Ko. 95J that any frontier agreement
must be between Saudi Government and Governments
(sic) concerned and not unilateral. They therefore
insist that they cannot regard Blue Line as
correctly describing frontier either in fact or in
law between them and neighbouring Arab territories
but declare entire readiness to come to an under
standing regarding frontier which shall secure
interests of all Arab countties. They enclose
statement of reasons for strong attitude.
ffollowing are main points in enclosed
statement•
1. Blue line was not agreed upon between
Governments having proper authority and locus standi.
Saudi Government do not now wiBh to discuss position
of His Majesty's Government at that time but Turkish
Government clearly had no right to determine destiny
of countries which had made agreements with His
Majesty's Government. Authority of Ottoman
Government never extended beyond inhabited towns
and/
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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.
- 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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- 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
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