'File 10/10 III Bahrain Additional Area' [19r] (37/96)
The record is made up of 1 file (48 folios). It was created in 20 Nov 1949-5 Sep 1950. It was written in English and Arabic. 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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he did not continue to let them, tout retained the fish
ing in his own hands.
7. Last summer, 1949, Shaikh Ali bin Khalifah
went to Nejd. He took with him the document and dis
cussed the matter with His Majesty King Ihn Saud. Ibn
Saud, according to Shaikh Ali hin Khalifah, hinted at
some sort of "compensation" and made various remarks
such as "alhalaal wahad" (our property is in common).
The king pointed out that there was no seal of a ruler
or Qadi on the document. At the time that the document
was written however there was no Government in Saudi
Arabia other than the Turks whose authority was more
or less limited to the coastal settlements and the
A1 Humaid tribe was the ruling tribe on the strip of
coast referred to in the document. Shaikh Ali bin
Khalifah told the King that any matter of compensation
would have to be dealt with by His Highness Shaikh
Sulman. The island of Chus Chus is within the boun
daries described in the document. The facts about
the purchase of the sea in the neighbourhood of the
Baina islands are given here in order to show that 70-
year s ago the Khalifah owned he* not only the sea
between Bahrain and the islands but the sea extending
from the islands up to what is now the Saudi Arabian
coast.
8. On July 29, 1913 a convention was signed
between the United Kingdom and Turkey. The following
is quoted from Article 13 of the Convention.
"The Imperial Ottoman Oovernment renounce all
their claims with regard to the Bahrain Islands,
including the two islets of Lubainatel Aliya
and Lubainat-es-Safliya, and recognise the inde
pendence of that country. His Britannic Majesty^
Government on their part declare that they have
no intention of annexing the Bahrain islands to
their territory."
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The file contains correspondence and telegrams between the the Sheikh of Bahrain, Salman bin Hamad Al-Khalifah, 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. in Bahrain, the Financial Adviser to the Government in Bahrain, Charles Dalrymple Belgrave and representatives of the Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited (BAPCO) on the claim of the Ruler of Saudi Arabia, Ibn Saud on islands off the Bahrain coast, on which he had erected concrete slabs and bronze plaques.
The file includes letters in Arabic, four photographs representing beacons on the islands (folios 23-24; 34-35) and a map 'Portion of U.S. Hydrographic Map N. 3647 Showing Area Explored by Geological, Geophysical and Structure Drilling Methods. January 4th, 1950' (folio 14).
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- 1 file (48 folios)
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The documents in the file are arranged in chronological order.
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The main foliation is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of each folio. It begins with the front cover of the file, on number 1, and runs through to 48, ending on the inside of the back cover of the file. There are also two other foliation sequences, both incomplete.
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- Title
- 'File 10/10 III Bahrain Additional Area'
- Pages
- 16r:20r, 25r:26r
- Author
- Belgrave, Sir Charles Dalrymple
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- UK Government Public Record
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