ملف 19/243 III (C 95) الزبارة [و‎‎٢‎٦] (٤٦٢/٦٢)

a warship ruid orclcrGd >Xia r 'li .lacini ^in lliani "to evacuate
-jubarah in tliroe hours' time or otherwise it would be boinbarded.
hen the tine canie rnd he did not obey the orders it was tota ly
destroyed by shells, rhe Amir ran away with his army and since
then oibnrah remained in a ruined state and no one developed it
as it was cons '.dered to be a dependency of Bahrain.
One and a half years a. British Company, a branch of
Abadan Company, obtained oil concession from Shailch Abdillah bin
casim ibn Aiani, the present Anir of ^atar, for ^atar peninsala.
i'he Co^any's 'Una er toured all over the country and visited
^ubarah and its dependencies. He found that there v /as more oil
in -Saabarah thaA it v :as in -iatar. He asked the Amir to give ,
him the cone cr:s ion promising him Br t ! .sh Government's a sistance
He (Amir) took up the .atter# 'ilie -ir .im tribes were paying to
„atar neither ^alcatnor Customs dies as the,; were considered to
be the subjects of A1 Khalifah. He demanded from them customs
and zakat on their cattle and the provisions they imported from
B hrain. 'ilioy relUsed to pay and migrated to ^abarah. He sent
someone to them to toll then that 2abc-rah was his. iliey took
refUge with A1 Khalifah who ^;a:/c then a> gu ranee and provided
them with money» food and arrx f r defence. After some days
the itiler of ;atar collected on arny and marched on ^ibarah
in order to occ.py it and punish the Nairn tribes. The Amir of
Bahrain Shaikh Unad asked for negotiations and tv/o representa
tives v ;ere sent n^iely Nasir bin Atiyah and his (Shaikh of
Qatar's) Secretary ualih bin ^ialaiman al --ani 1 . But they
were not cuccecsf il in achievin any ref ?alt because there was
a foreign hand in the matter, 'fho Anir of Bahrain v /as very
strict about /ubc.raJi; similarly the '< r im tribes; and the Amir
of iatar v/as also the sane as they were, ihe negotiations wer
going on till the end of Kabi al Awal 1356 (beginning of June
ilien the ^ad of the Bahrain Government, v /ho is an ^hglishnar
named C.D. Belgrave, ordered the boycott of provisions,
piece -goods and petrol acainst ^atar. Un the 1st of
ifcbi al iliani (10th Ouno 1937 ) 3hr.>Ji Abdillah bin Isa.