ملف ١٩١٦//٢٩٠٢ "المعاهدات والاتفاقيات بين الحكومة البريطانية وحُكام الساحل العربي للخليج الفارسي" [و‎‎١‎٣‎١] (٤٤٨/٢٧٢)

Treaties and engagements in force on
1st January 1906 between the
British Government and the Trucial
Chiefs of the Arab Coast.
[IvOTE. In the event of doubt hereafter arising as to the precise interpretation of
any portion of the English or Arabic text of one or other of the Treaty stipulations, the
English text shall be considered decisive.]
General Treaty with the Arab Tribes of the
Persian Gulf—1820.
In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate.
Praise he to God, who hath ordained peace to be a
blessing to his creatures. There is established a lasting peace
between the British Government and the Arab tribes, who
are parties, to this contract, on the following conditions :—
Article 1 .
There shall he a cessation of plunder and piracy by land
and sea on the part of the Arabs, who are parties to this
contract, for ever.
Article 2 .
If any individual of the people of the Arabs contracting
shall attack any that pass by land or sea of any nation,
whatsoever, in the way of plunder and piracy and not of
acknowledged war, he shall he accounted an enemy of all
mankind, and shall he held to have forfeited both life and
goods. An acknowledged war is that which is proclaimed,
avowed, and ordered by Government against Government;
and the killing of men and taking of goods without procla
mation, avowal, and the order of a Government is plunder
and piracy.
Article 3.
The friendly (literally the pacifieated)
Arabs shall carry by land and sea a red
flag, with or without letters in it, at their
option, and this shall be in a border of
white, the breadth of the white in the
border being equal to the breadth of the
red, as represented in the margin (the
whole forming the flag known in the
British Navy by the title of white pierced
red); this shall he the flag of the friendly
Arabs, and they shall use it, and no other.
Article 4.
The pacifieated tribes shall all of them continue in their
former relations, with the exception that they shall he at
peace with the British Government, and shall not fight with
each other, and the flag shall he a symbol of this only, and
of nothing further. *