"ملف 19/243‏ II (C 72)‎ الزبارة" [و‎‎٢‎٠‎٤] (٤٤٤/٤٢٢)

Confide ntiaX*
D.CUNo.C /156 of 1957.
I
KJ
(%o4
Office oi" the Political
resident in the Persian Gull",
at 5hiraz«
Dated the 24th July, 1957•
r
Could you please reier to correspondence ending
with my telegram l^o. T/114 dated the 24th wuly 19o7.
According to itashid* s report the "war" between
tne isneiKh of Qatar and the Kaim all hulls down to one
SJiirmi sn at A1 Tnasnab in which the Nairn lost 4 Killed
and 5 wounded out of a total of ou, ana tne bneiiui of
Qatar had at.his uiaposal some
horsemen and 4 cars*
caiiel riders, SC
1PI
2,
It ^srould be interesting to itnow if the above
figuxes are more or less correct, ana can you confiriu?
Barly rumours indicated a large number of casualties,
I ' ' ' '
more or less severe fighting, ana 7,000 men taking the
field for the bheika of Qatar, see JUeptfords report
Ho,1951 datea tne ord Jialy 19o7, wnich naturally only
passed on local Arab gossip.
5.
In one of the subsiaiary letters connected with
the Qatar Oil Concession we promised the Bheikh assistance
in case nis territory was invadea on a large scale from
outsiae but stipulated that he woola nave to take his
part to the best of his ability. It wouicx therefore
be interesting to know now many armed men, judging from
his Nairn operations, he could at a pinch put into the
field and how many rounds per rifle. In the Leptfora
telegram quoted above the number was given as ^0 rounds,
which seems to me reasonable. Arab {sheikhs do not dish
-/out
c ^Ptain T. Hickinbotham, I.A.
Political AKent» Bahrain.