ملف 19/243 III (C 95) الزبارة [و‎‎١‎٨‎٠] (٤٦٢/٣٧٤)

Translation of a letter dated ?Oth j/Uhani 1365 ( 'ay -—5
1946) from His Highness Shaikh Caiman to H.B. Tr - 's political
Agent, Bahrain.
-j haye honour -tG r /ona about a raaPtter v/.^ic
is of tmportanc'e td me and 1 to 'th^ of Bahrain
and which for th^ last eight ye&rs has, be^n ta ; <t'cause of bad .
relations between cairselvtfs wad a nci^nboirrins Arab State,
that i^- the questioar or Z'ubara.
"2. I do not at present propose to recapitulate the or'-j^na 1
causes of the dispute--tot--!" wish to draw your attention to the
understanding v;hich was reached on this subject in June 1- 41
after, on the request of the political Agent, I had agreed to
recommence negotiations about Zubara.
3. After many discussions and much correspondence between
myself and the political Agent the political ..gent brought to
me at Rafaa on 23rd June a document which Shaikh Abdulla bir
Jasim had signed on 17th June at Doha and under the assumption
that the terms of the conditions written in this agreement
would be carried out I signed in in the presence of the poli
tical ..gent, my uncles and my Adviser. I should like to point
out that in this matter I did not deal directly with Shaikh
Abdulla but the Agreement was made through the political Agen-
who acted as mediator between us, it is therefore to the
political Agent that I now protest that the terms of this
Agreement have not been carried out by Shaikh Ab^ulla though
they have been strictly carried out by myself and my people.
4. The most important clause in the Agreement are the
words;* ■ m
cr-jt U JjJ I 5^L-J JUI ' f 3 ^
f} U 2jLpl J—4—Js-
I Ul) 4 .iA J u-J jj li^L-u/
whose meaning is clear, '^e on our part immediately allowed
oiir people and the people 01 Qa^ar ^o go and come bet^/een
the two ^laces as they used to until 1936, when the preson":
dispute began, and within a day or two the Shaikhs of jatar
themselves, first Shaikh T lamad bin Abdulla and then others,
began comin,; to Bahrain. Since then there have been no res
trictions on ^atar people coming to Bahrain, tr.is is rell Knoim.
and can be clearly seen, as an example -urthu ].as^ t./o
months according to our passport figures anc ration " e -
about 600 persons from Qatar have entere our conn'^y. r^-us
0,3 far as we are concerned, the people ^ ^a enjoy j arr.-o
conditions as they did before 1926•
5 "The state of things at Zubara however is very different,
dthourh Shaikh Abdulla agreed that conditions there would be
come as thev were before 1936 yet he has done nothing to res
tore to us the rights at Zubara which we had before 1936. He
continues to retain a garrison in the port^v.v.i'^h 1 -
to the GALA MARIR- our people whom we permitted to return to
Zubara after the Agreement, first having iscfsje" t■. esii
bilitv of their going there with the political Ag^nt, have been
subjected to persecution and we do not enjoy the freedom in the
Zubara area which has neen ours from tne time tnat our people
lived in Zubara until the quarrel he. .'em 11^
Abdulla bin Jasim.
/6. t. r e earnestly....