ملف رقم ١٦٠ لسنة ١٩٠٣ "الخليج الفارسي: قطر؛ تعيين مديرين أتراك؛ مسألة معاهدة الحماية مع قطر" [و‎‎٣‎٧‎٥] (٨٦٠/٧٥٤)

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3ia8t year, the Ck>vei^«neyit of India proposed to
mafce ft Protectorate Treaty with Ahmad bin Than!, who is
described as the d? facto ruler. Sheikh Jasim being
now superannuated* in reply the Government of India were
instructed not to allow the Resident to do more that make
preliminary enquiries or to commit the Indian Government to
any obligations p^ding the result of further discussion*
(Ho.37, dated 5 September 1902.)
Then otm* from Constantinople a report that the
Turkish Government proposed sending garrisons to Certain
places on the Arabian coast, including Q&eid and Zob&ra.
Tlie Govemnant of In<lia propose that we should prevent the
occupation of Zobara and Oddd, on the saone grounds as in
1895 viss. on the ground that it would be a menace to
Bahrein. They also renew their suggestion about an
agreement with Ahmad bin Thani, but do not press it. The
position at Zobara was held so recently as 1896 to be
sufficiently important to Bahrein to justify Its in forcibly
turning out the settl ^nent fostered there by the Tusk s* A s
to O&sid, its status was determined by thQ Goveiument of
India in their despatch No. 127 of 1879. »0&ei& belongs to
•the Chief of Ahoothabee, with whom the- British Government
•has m^iintfiined direct tr^ity relations formally years, and
•that the pretensions of Turkey to claim the settlement as
•a dependency of a Turkish district are vague and without
•foundation. It may be true that Sheikh Batay ®f Odoid has
•occasionally hoisted the Turkish flag, that he has claimed
•Turkish protection, find that he has latterly paid a small
•tribute to El Bidaa. But the existence oi a separate cJi ^
•independent Chiefship at Odeid has never been recognised,
•and the act of Sheikh Butay in establishing a settlement
•there was an infraction of the prescriptive territorial
•rights of Aboothabee. The declaration of the Odeld Sheikli,
•and of hie colony, that they put themselves unde*’ Torkisn
protection