"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎٩‎٩‎٨] (١٧٨٢/١١٥٣)

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amicable settlement^ and the Shaikh had been authorised by the Britisli
Government to respond ; but the Al Bahaih eventually hung back, and
the intended negotiations did not take place.
In 1903, no steps having as yet been taken by the Turkish authorities
to compensate the Shaikh of Bahrain for the massacre, discussion of the
case was resumed between the British Government and the Porte. An
assertion by the Porte that the murderers had all been killed in subsequent
encounters with the Turkish troops having been disproved, and the
unwillingness or inability of the Turks to take further action having
become clear. His Majesty's Government decided that the Shaikh of
Bahrain might be authorised to proceed in his own way against the Al
Bahaih, provided that nothing was done in territory recognised as Turkish.
This decision was communicated to the Porte in October 1904, but it was
withheld from the Shaikh in consequence of his misconduct in certain
matters which form part of the history of Bahrain.
In iebruary 1905 a fresh outrage on Bahrain subjects was committed.
by the Al Bahaih tribe at Dohat Huwaiqil in Barr-al-Qarah. The
victims on this occasion were the crews of two Mashuwahs from Hadd on
Muharraq Island, who had landed to collect firewood ; they were attacked
by a gang of 35 Bedouins, two of their number were dangerously
wounded by the bullets of the Al Bahaih, and a slave belonging to the
party was carried off. In 1907 it appeared that the Al Bahaih, whom
the Shaikh had prohibited from visiting Bahrain, considered themselves,
on uhis account, as at feud w T ith the whole Arab population of the
islands.
The Turkish Mutasarrifs of Hasa were, after the occupation of
the province, the principal instruments of the Turkish policy of expansion
on the side of Qatar and Trucial 'Oman ; but their proceedings in this
respect, belonging rather to the history of Qatar, are described in another
place.
The use of Kuwait to some extent as a base of operations and the
assistance given by the Shaikh of Kuwait in the Turkish conquest of Hasa
n 1871 ha\e been noticed above, as has also the co-operation of a Kuwait
contingent under Shaikh Mubarak to restore order in Hasa in 1893.
vvards the end of 1899 an Irade, authorising the construction of a line
e & raph from Basrah to Qatif which would necessarily have passed
through Kuwait, was issued by the Sultan of Turkey; but no steps were
taken to give the scheme effect.
"W i, e ^ 0 ^ 1 ' a ^ ons an ^ her dealings of the Turks in Hasa with the
i ruleis of Central Arabia have been described above in so far as