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GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.
__________ Department. 1940. .

EXPRESS LETTER
Confidential^
[/V. B.—This is an ORIGINAL MF.RRAG!%, sent by post In sa-c t deg rapine
expense. nud undue use of the wires, bat intended to be. Ir>ai>\l, on
rtc.cijil, with the same expedition as if it had been I eh graphed. To
sa>c lime n»d formalities it is woidcd ti-.d siyied us if it had been
so despatched.)

From

The Political Agont,

Bahrain.

To
The Hon*bio the Political ''ooidont in tho Persian
Gulf
Bushlro.

No, C/236 - l.n/29 Dated 20th Parch 1940 Jpfj

Hoforonce India Office beprooo letter No. P.:-'.1227/40
dntod tho 12th Itaroh 1040 regarding tho lino of division to be
drawn botwoon tho territorial righto of Bahrain and Qatar.
2. In so fr.r oa a lino rauot bo drawn in tho vicinity of tho
Havmr Islands I ora still avYoiting tho receipt of a largo seals

photographic mop. (1 hovo received a vory small scale photography
but have naked Air Hendqua tors, Iraq, through tho Air Liaison
Officer, Bohraln, for something loh.^or). I proposo to oubmlt my
euggoatlona whan this map is rooalvod.
3. As to tho Fooht ol nibal (Jlbal) I find no evidonoo that tho
Shaikh of Qatar has ovor claimed this reef. It la true that In
paragraph 4 of his latter No.T/B7 dntod '“.ha 20th August 1937 ray
prsdoooaoor remarked that tho :\ulor of 3atsr ralah^ lay claim to
Posht si Dlbsl, but In point of foot ha has not dona so* Tho
S. 0.
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