'File 4/13 IV Zubara' [‎66r] (136/412)

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Shaikh Abdulla to agree to it and I told His Highness
that if this was not acceptable you had no other course
than to refer the matter to the Resident.
4. His Highness desired me to sand you his draft
and when I drew his attention to the vagueness of the
new building clause he said that he was prepared not
to build if you, not Shaikh Abdulla, requested him not
to build but he considered that Shaikh Abdulla by
building a new fort a few hundred yards from Gala al
llurair had upset any possible arrangement by which
conditions at Zubara could revert to the original status
quo.
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5. His Highness said that he would much regret if the
matter could not be settled through your mediation but
the question of referring it to higher quarters was not
in his hands. He reminded me that all along he had not
wished to open up the dispute during the war but the
subject had been introduced by you. I explained again
the difficulty about shipping space and supplies for
Qatar and he talked for some time about the possibility
of postponing the settlement of the Zubara claim till
after the war and making some arrangement for Qatar
supplies to be offloaded from here, but a solution by
a method which retained the restriction on Qatar subjects
coming in and out of Bahrain was not discovered. His
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Highness was anxious that his private quarrel with Qatar
should not cause difficulty in shipping matters which
were of war time importance. Shaikh Abdulla was in agree
ment with the views expressed by His Highness and was
particularly disturbed about the existance of Shaikh
Abdulla 1 ’s new fort. The garrison of the fort, I under
stand, were in Bahrain recently and received gifts from
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