'الملف 10/3 IV الامتياز النفطي بقطر' [و‎‎٣‎٨] (٥٣٤/١٠٠)

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*2020/34o India Office,
Wii tehall,
LO!©ON,S.W,l,
By air m al l *
23rd March, 1934,
My d sar ^owie ,
I enclose copy of a doOo.letter from "Ryan at Jed da
to /a^Tier at the foreign Office about the Q,atar b0 mdaly
question, which is, 1 think, self-explanatory. On certain
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of the point s/ralaes you may be in a position to throv;
further light af+er your visits to Q,atar and your interviews
wi uh trie ^haikn, and we should wel cothe a report on his points
gene 1 a.i,j.y sand sFia 11 be Much interested in any comrnents on
or information abou+ them which you may in due course be
able to let sas have.
2c Xs regards the payment of zakat to ibn Saud, the
information as t 0 any payment by the Shaikh of Q.atar is
summarised by ^yan» ihere have, 1 think, at various times
in the oast been casual references to the collection of
zakat by representatives of ibn 3aud so far east as the
^areimi Oasis (compare, for instance, the statements by
Thomas and in Philby's ""Rub al Khali" quoted in paragraph
I- and Appendix III of the India Office memorandum on Q.atario
Bin Saud has of course recognised under Article 6 of the
^reaty of Jed da the ^special treaty relations wi th H e J3 # M 0 ' s
^ernment* of "the territories of ikiwait and Bahrain, and
o S . he Shaikhs of ^atar and the Oman Coast". Quite apart
from this, we have never regarded, 1 think, these payments
of zakat, which, in so far as they may have been irmde, we
have Ignored, as payments of a formal tribute, or as evidence
by the pereocs by whom the payment was Trade of the
re co gn it ion/
The Hon 'ble Lt <> Gol^T. G.W.Fowle, C-B.E
The Residency,
^u sh i re .