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'F.85 File 82/27-IV Qatar Oil' [182r] (372/422)
The record is made up of 1 volume (207 folios). It was created in 1 May 1934-1 Jul 1934. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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CONFIDENTIAL
Ho. 594-S of 1934.
British Besidency & Consulate-General,
Bushire, the 28th June, 1934.
f/c
From - The Hobble Lieut•-Colonel T^C.FowlejC.B.i^.,
To - His Majesty's Secretary of State for India,
The
India Office
The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors.
,
London#
In contJJMation of ray telegram lJo»688, dated the
27th June 1934, I have the honour to enclose four
chronological Tables showing Wahabi Relations with Hasa
(west of the Blue Line), and Qatar, the
Trucial Coast
A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
and
the Sultanate of r Oman (east of the Blue Line). These
I think dispose of any "ancestral" claims by Ibn Saud to
any part of the territories in <|aestion, at all events
to the three last named. His occupational claims to
Hasa are not in dispute#
2. 'ftie submission of vague ancestral claims is a
favourite device of Arab Rulers, and I recollect that the
Iman of Yemen, when I was at Aden, based his claim to the
Aden Protectorate partly on ancestral grounds, which on
examination proved to be entirely fictitious. Sometimes
the chaotic and tribal conditions of Arabia make it
difficult to refute such pretentions, but in the present
case the task has been comparatively simple.
Political Resident
A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency.
in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Sir
3. HASA . Table A
It will be seen from the Table that prior
to/
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The volume contains correspondence between the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. at Bahrain and the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. at Bushire, the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. in London, the Shaikh of Qatar, ‘Abdullāh bin Jāsim Āl Thānī, and the Foreign Office in regard to the southern borders of Qatar, the Qatar oil concession and the relations of the Shaikhdom with ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd (Ibn Sa‘ūd), King of Saudi Arabia. There is also correspondence regarding an air reconnaissance of Qatar to be carried out via RAF flying boats, which took place on 9 May 1934, including reports of the reconnaissance (folios 147-154).
Some of the documents in the volume are marked as secret or confidential.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (207 folios)
- Arrangement
The documents in the volume are mostly arranged in chronological order. There are notes at the end of the volume, (folios 196-202). The file notes are arranged chronologically and refer to documents within the volume; they give brief description of the correspondence with reference numbers in red crayon, which refer back to that correspondence in the volume.
- Physical characteristics
The main foliation is written in pencil, circled, and can be found in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio.The numbering begins on the title page, on number 1, and ends on the inside of the back cover, on number 207.
There is another foliation sequence, incomplete.
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- 'F.85 File 82/27-IV Qatar Oil'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1r:90v, 91v:118v, 121r:168v, 169v, 172v, 174v, 175v:206v, back-i
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