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Coll 30/159 'Ownership of Hawar Islands.' [70r] (140/361)
The record is made up of 1 file (179 folios). It was created in 29 Apr 1936-15 Oct 1942. 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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No comment
No comment
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But Shaikh
Abdullah does
not claim that
Qatar detachments
or representatives
were in Hawar.
Translation of comments on the statement of
the Bahrain Government in the case of Hawar
Islands, Submitted by the Ruler of Qatar.
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1. The Bahrain Government try to find out
justification for the action they dared in the
Hawar Islands but they fall into confusion about
the matter. They lose the point and then have
recourse to sophistication and the obliteration
of facts to which no one, who has the least know
ledge of conditions which prevailed in these islands
in the past, would support them.
In studying their memorandum and examining
its contents I did not find out that they have
put forward even a fraction of the evidence which
can be considered as sufficient proof from an
indicative point of view, or a proof which can be a
likely argument to justify their recent action in
islands which form a part of Qatar. All that it
contained are some far fetched allegations which
are remote from the truth.
2. The Bahrain Government deny my statement that
they did not occupy those islands except in recent
days, and they allege that they belong to the
Ruler of Bahrain, and that they were inhabited by
their subjects for more than a century. Then they
recant and contradict their own allegations and
support my statement in saying that their military
detachment was only recently stationed there.
3. Whoever views this allegation will find it
not only illogical but also far away from sensibi
lity, and will be surprised by its strangeness and
bare-faced contradictory appearance. That islands
which are so described by the Bahrain Government,
and which they claim as belonging to them and in
habited by their subjects for over a century, should
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The file concerns the disputed claims of the rulers of Bahrain and Qatar to sovereignty over the Hawar Islands. The issue arose afresh in 1936 in response to a request from Petroleum Concessions Limited to settle the issue of ownership, in order that the Company could claim oil concession rights over the island as part of the concession not previously allocated to the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) (the Bahrain Unallotted Area).
The papers contain statements of evidence on both sides, and correspondence discussing the question from 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. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ; 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. , Bahrain; the Foreign Office; Petroleum Concessions Limited; the Government of Bahrain; and the two rulers concerned. The British Government decided in 1939, after examining the evidence, that the islands belonged to Bahrain (folio 44). The papers show that 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. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Geoffrey Prior, challenged the validity of this judgement in 1941, stating that the case had been decided 'according to western ideas, and no allowance has been made for local custom and sentiment' (folios 6-8). However, a subsequent letter on the subject from the Government of India to 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. concluded that it was then too late to reverse the decision (folio 4).
The Arabic language content of the papers consists of approximately five folios; these include photographs of judgements (with translation, folios 57-58) submitted by the Government of Bahrain to the British Government, showing that the Bahrain Court had exercised jurisdiction in legal cases concerning residents of Hawar (folios 130-133).
The file also includes photographs of places in Hawar (folios 126-127).
The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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- 1 file (179 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 181; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. Two additional foliation sequences are also present in parallel between ff 3-179, and ff 48-88; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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- IOR/L/PS/12/3895
- Title
- Coll 30/159 'Ownership of Hawar Islands.'
- Pages
- 25r:27v, 68r:84v, 103r:104v, 112r:113v, 116r:119v, 138r:139v
- Author
- Al Thani, Shaikh Abdullah bin Jassim bin Mohammed
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- Public Domain