"ملف رقم: E/3. قطر - الشيوخ جاسم و أحمد آل ثاني ووفاة الشيخ جاسم في ١٩١٣" [ظ‎‎١‎٦‎٠] (٣٩٤/٣٣٧)

translation of a letter dated 4th Vjab 1^7 (=5tb '
1919) from Shaikh 'Isa bin Ali A1 Kbalifah, 0.3.1., cbief
eahrain to the Political A^nt, Bahrain.
I have received your honour'e esteemed letter -o.SO ,ated
^nd Jamadi -al-Akhir 1.37 = 26th e arob 1919j in wMoh ^
your friend to inform y ou of the names of Arab Rulers with who. ft
W8 arS ln tr9afc ^^tlon 9 lttM .-1 of the ^ate of t^ose treaties. ! P
Zour* - ri0nd doss not 8""° in v* ■? o
e ' in h13 Vlew ' that this is a necessary
!T ' " t: ® lawful ruler of the countrv. And it 1
is a strict riprht that my jurisdiction naturally extends over
1X1 t!!9 SUbj9Ct3 (0itlZen8) r99ia9nt ^ Bahrain, exce.t, nerhans,
those .horn your honour may make an excention of f~om amon. them f ,
(rsoi lento) such latter bein- the" subjects of the Irmerial
British Government and the Great Powers.
As regards the subjects of the .reat powers, it was so
(agreed) originally that there affairs ehould be let alone
(by me) simnly in order to avoid what ^i.ht lead to nolitical
'ifferencee between their Governments and ourselves-while it i 3
of pleasant consequence that the evil aims of those .overn~erts
are *.i„* to be frustrated, thanks to the just Allied nations
V ''' 0 111 tb9 WOrld t0 the 3 fade of riirht and justice and
^ i H SLlfs pruard t "P i crlrf' Q -P + i
nrrhts of t^e weaker nations - and x have,
accordingly, firm hone and full confidence, in accordance with
my old friendship with and backed un by my loyalty to the Im^erist
British Government, that she (the Govern^nt) will . iv9 rae the
honour and esteem which is of her Government 's ) traditions
with her frisnds. And I havs ocr>*i^nii*
oc.coionallv sx^reassd t^ig tbroun-h
rovsrnnsnt's forner rspressntatives.
I
AS regards the names of those Rulers, there is no necessity
- - 7 ~ no n0(
01- ©numsratinsr them and our trorifv
our treaty-relations with them are
confined to their comnunioations mad^ to nn *
oane t:o us in resneot of t^e
oases of their subjects and the dates of
aciLes of those oomrnunioati ons
(oorresnondence) be.in from the tine of my nredecessors
{extend to) my own since I took over the rule of my country.
Usual ending.