'File 19/243 III (C 95) Zubarah' [‎107r] (224/462)

I left Bahrain for i^atar in the evening of the loth of June
in the motor launch "Ghazal" which was kindly lent to me by Messrs
Petroleum Concessions Limited and arrived at Doha on the morning
or the 16th of June. Information being sent to the Shaikh of
Qatar at Riyan he immediately came in to joha and received me in
the house of Abdullah bin Darwish one of the principal merchants
of the place. The Shaikh of Qatar has a house of his own at joha ^
but it has not been inhabited for some years and it was for this
reason that he made his temporary headquarters in a house belonging
to a merchant.
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2. During my first interview with the Shaikh at about 10 a.m.
on the 16th I discussed with him various outstandins problems,
in particular the endeavours which were being made to re -establish
friendly relations between Bahrain and Qatar, -lie question o^
the children of the manumitted slave Faraj bin Hadi, ana reoorts
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which had been received with regard to the smuggling ol cereals,
sugar, and piecegoods, from Qatar to Persia. I found the ol-^iicn
inclined to be cooperative and it was not long before the misunder
standings which had occurred over the question of the chilaren o-
Faraj bin Hadi had been cleared up. A separate communication hao
been made to the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. with regard to this case.as also has a
separate communication been made with regard to the question Ox
reducing the piecegoods, sugar, and cereal quotas for the Qatar
peninsula.
Our conversation on the subject of Zubarah 18th-century town located 105 km from Doha. moved on the usual
lines with much protesting that the Shaikh himself was most anxious
to restore relations and more protesting; that the asgressors have
always been the A1 Khalifah. I showed the Shaikh a letter rhich
I had received from the Shaikh of Bahrain making certain new sug-es
tions for the solving of their various differences which was no
better received than any of the previous ones had been. In fact
It was not at all acceptable. We therefore deferred any further
reference to this subject until later in the day when it was
decided that I should go to Riyan, the Shaikh's headquarters,