"ملف 19/243 ( I (C 69 الزبارة" [و‎‎٤‎١] (٤١٦/٩٢)

and appealed to the A1 Khalifah and the other sub-sec
tions of his tribe. The result is known. I consider
that Shaiidi Rashid would have been in order if he had
only made a protest which we could have decided and not
gone further and collected an armed force.
18. The Shaikh of B^r^in was also at fault in send
ing a party of soldiers to plant the Bahrain flag at
Zubarah and to land material for the ostensible pur
pose of repairing the fort. He would have been better
advised if he had confined his activities to asking our
good offices to settle the matter. His delay in with
drawing his soldiers from Zubarah after being so request
ed by the Political Resident is also to be deprecated.
I am of opinion that many false and lying rumours, some
of them intentional, are at the back of this attitude
and I do not think that His Highness would have personal
ly acted in the way that he appears to have done if he
had not been somewhat overcome by sentimental feeling
for the home of his ancestors.
19. . There are in my opinion two problems to be decided
and they are:-
(a) the ownership of Zubarah
(b) the nationality of the Na'im tribe.
With regard to (a) I have nothing to say as I have
not had an opportunity of studying the question up-to-date.
The second point regarding the nationality of the
Na'im should not be very difficult to determine. If
Zubarah belongs to the Shaikh of Bahrain and they live
within the area then they must be subject to his rule,
but whether they belong to Bahrain or whether they belong
to the Shaikh of Qatar as long as they are in the
territory/-