"ملف 4/13‎ I الزبارة" [و‎‎٢‎٦‎٨] (٦٦٠/٥٤٠)

Dated 29th Rabi A1 Awwal 1356.
(9th June 193?).
From - Shaikh Abdullah bin Qasim A1 Thani,
Ruler of Qatar.
To - The Honourable Lieutenant Colonel Sir T.C. Fowle,
i\. • C • I .IC • 3 C • B »E . 3
Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire.
After Compliments.
I have the honour to submit to your Honour the
question of Zubarah. I have explained to your Honour
repeatedly about the provocation caused and the agression
done to us by Bahrain on account of this imaginary claim
which is not set up on a foundation or basis according to
intellect and logic. I am surprised at this claim which
they have created in connection v^ith Zubarah which is my land
and one of the Qatari Coasts.
Honourable the Political Resident i You asked me
when you visited Doha to send two representatives in
order to negotiate about the Zubarah Question and as I
informed your Honour that I was quite certain that there
was no necessity for negotiation in a clear matter* but
I could not disagree with your wishes. And in accordance
with your desire X sent my two representatives to Bahrain
for negotiation under the supervision of His Britannic
Majesty r s Political Agent there. negotiations started
on the subjecy and my representatives x ooduced clear proofs
that Zubarah is a part inseperable from the Qatar Territory.
In conc.lusion proposals were set forth to me by the repres
entatives of H.H. the Ruler cf Bahrain to which I did not
agree because I considered it the same claim which they
created but in order to preserve the friendly relations
existing between me and H.H. the Ruler oi Bahrain and
in support of the mutual neighbourly friendship I
inserted some modifications in the same and sent it
to them through H.B.M’s Political Agent. I intimated