مجموعة ٦ / ٦٧ (٦) "حدود جنوب شرق الجزيرة العربية وقطر: امتيازات النفط في الساحل المتصالح" [ظ‎‎١‎٨‎٣] (٤٠٢/٣٧٣)

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• f i, 0 „ 1 ,pot ion of the eastern and south-eastern
would have been in favour were, he could only suggest- -
frontiers in abeyance, but that a _ ■ order that the Saudi Arabian
(1) that Fuad Bey sh( f ^ J^er’ no illusion on this point, that His
Government might remain unJ ^ ^ Jebel Nakh sh and the
Majesty’s Government g hould be aske d on what other tj
Khor-el-Odeid as es^ntial, but h Majesty’s Minister could
^jS ^ofats^r- ^eal to their respective
Governments; nnmidered whether His Majesty’s Govern-
(2) that m f n ^ le X r S d h to offer further slight concessions on the borders of
Muscat and the Aden Prot ® Ct ^ t ^ ifficulties inherent in this second
sr pis-ri ‘sss.rst ssz
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of Petroleum Concessions, Limited R Bullard was instructed on the
33. At the beginning of ^ in th e preceding paragraph, and
lines of his own suggestions, as s un . P h Ibn Sand would
acted accordingly. Fuad ^ ^ CtheTini inAfoyance, confident that
not give way, but was willing to leave ^ rela tions. After a pre
nothing untoward would occui to ‘ f ^ gi R Bullard deduced that it
liminary talk about other parts of tte^ rontiei ^ prepared to effect a
seemed likely that the protertorate, a^d that Fuad Bey
tribal map was shown to 1 uaa Gonrii Arabian Government would be
at which the line put forward ^ “ ^atoan^o e fall within
nearest to the sea, viz the to L^den Protectorate tribes. Fuad Bey.
territory ethnographic > ^ S i Ko S ig of territorial claims, w T as
who had long been an exponent o c nersonal suggest ion that
unprepared with a reply to this argument, but ^ade the petsona, f eg
the point under discussion, which had been nidicated to h,ni - sn( |
the tribes of the Aden Protectorate, should be a^territory’ To an
a way, however, as still to leave Shishur and Tadhau m Saudi ^ V
enauirv whether these wells appeared on the list of Murra well, wmc
communicated to His Majesty’s Government m 1935 (paragraph j, P^. g
(though erroneously) in the affirmative and promised to ascertain " •) ,
the Saudi claim to'these two wells and to two others called banau and Thamid
rested The result of his enquiries was, however, never given to H.s Mnjc-G.
Minister. After a study of the evidence in Mr. Bertram Thomas s A mbui
Sir R. Bullard wrote to Fuad Bey on the 12th February explaining that the
evidence seemed to show— ^ ,
(1) That all four wells were in the steppe country which slopes from tfte
coastal mountains to the sand; , , i
(2) That the tribes within that belt were all tribes to which Ibn baud maue
no claim;
(3) That the Murra do not come as far south as these four wells.
35. So far as the Saudi Arabian Government were concerned, the only other
development in the south-eastern frontier question during 1937 was PJ 0V hj ec \ |
the discussions which took place in the course of the visit made by Mr. Kencie ,
the head of the Eastern Department of the Foreign Office, to Saudi Arabia during
the early months of the year.
36. Mr. Kendel, on his way to Jedda by way of Bahrein, visited the Oatar
peninsula with the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf in a Royal Air h°rce
aeroplane. He made a sketch map of the whole Jehel Dukhan, of which the Jobe
Nakhsh was found to be clearly an integral part, and on his arrival at
Sir R. Bullard and he, in the course of prolonged discussions, showed the map to
Sheikh Yusuf Yasin and Sheikh Hafiz Wahba, the Saudi Arabian Minister in
London. Air. Rendel described the terrain fully, but althougb he dwelt on the
fact that the Jebel Nakhsh formed an integral part of the Jebel Dukhan, and the
Jebel Dukhan of the Qatar peninsula, Sheikh Yusuf Yasin reiterated the old
argument based on tribes : that all the tribes in that area owed their allegiance to
Ibn Saud, who might, he added, have put forward far wider claims than he had