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Confidential
Political Agency,
No. C/266-1*a/29
Bahrain| tho 22nd April 1939,

From

H* iveightman, Require, I.C.S.,
Political Agont,
Bahrain*
To
The Honourable tho Political Hosidont
in tho Porsian Gulff

Dushire*

Subject i- Ownership of Ilawar Islands.

Sir,

I have tho honour to rofor to tho correspondence
on the above subject rosting with paragraph 2 of your Express

letter No. 192-S dated the 16th March 1939, end to forward
herewith a translation of a letter dated the 30th March 1939
from Shaikh Abdullah bin esim Al Thani, Shaikh of Qatar,
together with its onolosuros, being his rejoinder to the
Bohrain Government's counter-claim to the Ilawar Islands#
2* The documents in thio case ere now the following i-

(1) Letter doted the 10th May 1938 from Shaikh Abdullah
bin Qaaim Al Thani to me, of which a copy was forwarded to
you with my Express letter No* C/312 dated the 15th May 1938.
The subotanoe of this letter was a complaint against "the

interference and action taken by the Bahrain Government at
Hawar, which is a dependency of Qatar"•
(2) Letter dated tho 27th May 1938 from Shaikh Abdullah
»7.U I* bin Qasim Al Thani, a translation of which was forwarded to
you with my Express' letter No* T/3 dated the 3rd June 1938.
This letter contained the Shaikh of Qatar's formal claim
to sovereignty ovor tho Hawar Islands.

(3) /-