"ملف ٦\ ٢٨ IV حدود المملكة العربية السعودية-مسقط" [و‎‎٢‎٠] (١٠٦/٣٩)

/(ii)
(157/151/490)
Bahrain tel. I To.
54 to Jed&a of
September 3th
1949.
(53/138/50G)
Paragraph 2 of
Mr* Polly’s
letter 33/140/50G
of September 23rd
‘go Mr. Rogers
(foreign Office).
Arabia is clearly defined topographically.
■Qatar is the high land. uric. frontier is
whore the hills core do mi to the sand and the
salt flats at the s out he ini end of the penin
sula at its west side.
5. Bride/ico in category (b):
(i) Muhammad bin Saiyid an illiterate
Beni Eajar tribesman of Qatar was summoned
about 15 years ago br; the Amir of ilasa and. sent
to Riyadh where he was asked, by His Majesty
King Ibn Saud to defi.ie the southern boun
dary of Qatar. this ho did by giving a series
of names describing the boundary from Galwa
to the mouth of the Khor al 'Odaid. He gave
a similar description of the boundary to
Saudi officials and to four foreign Consuls.
(ii) Mansur bin Salim', ShaiJfchi of tbe
Shawawin a section of ‘che Beni Plajar who are
Subjects of the Shaikh of Qatar states that
there is a pretty clear geographical defini-
tion of the boundary. the stony ground is
Qatar and the sandy land is Ibn Saul s. I...
addition any camel r-cr
i.O rj
is on jatar turri--
(rile 61 / 31 -vii
page 255) Briga
dier Longrigg’s
letter of April
19th 1946 to Mr.
Burrows (Foreign
Office). (F. 0.
ref. E 4974/605/91)
oory.
6 . Evidence in category (C):
(i) fhe boundary of „atar as specified
in ehe map attached to the Petroleum Conces
sions Limited concession was parked on the
ground in 1940 by concrete pillars and the
geophysical (seismic) parties who were explo
ring in the 1947 - 4 3 season covered the whole
of the western half (of the peninsula) right
up to the concession boundary.