'File No: E.7. Qatar & Anglo-Turkish Convention of 1913' [‎139r] (294/460)

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of abancionlrit; ttila course; md he admitted tnelr fear of
reprisals by us, in tho event of an attach upon nia, Dut
ad^od that tnoy had already tried to eisploy the reoont
evonto at Doha in connection with tho TurKlah garrison
as a moany to eot local opinion against him on account of
his ler.nincs to^arda us. I aaKod whit tho offeot
upon the people hn\ bean. Ho admitted that it hnd not
amountoa to 12UC''.., oncl th^t the -e en ^^Les could not injur'3
his to any groat extent without help from outaide. upon
which X pointed out that Aax%i*m Ai>u D abi # b ^ bouni
by the undertaXinga we had read yesterday, could not taxe
steps against him without coain c vlirectly into contact
with ua, provided that Qatar had liKewiso Joined tho sicn-
•ntories., I lueetionedthe Shaikh ro ^arJinj hi.i fi^htu
-ing strength and that of hia unfriendly relations, and
told that he was only rfraid of a field piece which
ia in the poasoosion of his brother Khaiifah^ who ha^ a
saill est at :o the shore about 4 miles Korth of the port
of Doha. He asjcea^iether Oovermuent would jtivv) him a
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Turxish or soie other gun superior to Khaiifah 's, hich,
iorvic aole, is of old ty;.o # ftrid I Tori jed to re-
-A r -T the request in due course.
Shar-n Abdullah then wont at great length into the pro-
-visions of clauses IX an^c of the draft treaty, nd ut
^ various hypothetical cases in order to fintj^at as nair-
•ly ns possible the extant to 'which Government would be
Spared to suppo^rt him by land. I represented that
1 ^ t not the power to say exactly what Qovemmant would
0 In any particular case, but point Kt to the smsfactoir
condition of Chiefs who had com;aitt ^hemsolvea entirely
1; 0 and sbow^c ^that the extent of our support would
^opona uponi} that of his confidence in u« and the loyalty
or 0 ^^ e rwise with which he carrioc^ut his obligations.
^ I u ti n wf accepted satiafactory.
^ 1 ^4.^riscus ion than took pl ioe upon the other clauses