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Background and claim to Hawar islands, 1936-1942
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<c/ ■JC'i:i'iiiTi:;.Ti.u.. GOVERNMENT OF INDIA. : ' ? -A
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EXTEiJ.'.'L OTAIKS Department.
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EXPRESS LETTER (AIR MAIL):-----

f N.IS.—This it an OltlOlh'AL enessage sent by All! MAIL which provides a me-em 0/ eammunication more
expeditious <Ann the ordinary mail and is cheaper than the telegraph. It is intended to 01 treated,
on receipt, uith the saute eipedihon as if it had been telegraphed. To save time and to obviate
formalities it is drafted in the form of a telegram. It is authenticated by the signature of a
responsible officer of the /?t;>arfiii(ii{.]
No. F. 220-N/39. Simla
Baled , ihc July 19 z a

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Reference

SUBJECTt- pTffiership of Hawar Islands.

Reference India Cffioo letter No. P.Z.369V39,
dated 16th June 1939.
2. Government of India oonour in the view that the
hawar islands belong to Bahrain and not to Qatar and

request that you will inform the Shaikhs concerned as
proposed.

The issue of the above hen been authorised.

(Signature)
RECd. POL. DEPt.
. 1JJUU939
INDIA OFFICE Deputy 8eojf$tary*to) the Qoverj of India.
a. 44.
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