ملف رقم ١٦٠ لسنة ١٩٠٣ "الخليج الفارسي: قطر؛ تعيين مديرين أتراك؛ مسألة معاهدة الحماية مع قطر" [و‎‎١‎٧‎١] (٨٦٠/٣٤٦)

the honour to forward, for the information of the Government of India, copy
* No. 237, dated 7th November 1903. a further communication * made to me
i -p •, T , . „ , by Gaskin, Assistant Political Agent
at Bahrein. I have informed His Majesty’s Consul at Basrah of what
Mr. Gaskin says.
No, 237, dated the 7th November 1903.
Prom J. C. Gaskin, Esq., Assistant Political Agent, Bahrein,
To— Lieutenant-Colonel C. A. Klmball, C.I.E., Officiating Political Eesident in
Persian Gulf.
9A ,, ^ to correspondence ending with my letter No. 210, dated the
20th September 1903,1 have the honour to report that in reply to my enqui
ries from Sheikh Ahmed-hm-Thani regarding the appointment of Sheikh Abdul
Kahman-bm-Sheikh Jasim to the Mudirieh of Wakra, he informs me that he
has received no further communication from the Mutassarif of A1 Hassa on the
subject except that he was asked the reason of my visit to Wakra on the 19th
September.
It is evident that the orders issued to the Wali of Basrah hy the Porte to
deprive Sheikh Abdul Rahman of his character of Mudir of Wakra have not
been carried out.
No. 223-E.A., dated Fort William, the 21st January 1904.
From The Under-Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department,
To— Lieutenant-Colonel C. A. Kemball, C.I.E., Officiating Political Resident in
the Persian Gulf.
I am directed to refer to your letter No. 181, dated the 2nd October 1903
forwarding a report by the Assistant Political Agent, Bahrein, on his visit to
Wakra in September last.
2 . With reference to the concluding paragraphs of Mr. Gaskin’s letter,
I am to enquire whether you consider that there are good grounds for believing
that the influence of the Ihani family over the tribes in Katr is rapidly
waning, and that Sheikh Ahmed desires an arrangement with His Majesty’s
Government primarily in order to secure his position, and that he would pro
bably at once make appeals for their support in asserting his diminishin 0 *
authority over the tribes in the El Katr peninsula.