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Claim by Ruler of Qatar 281
Translation of comments on the statement of
tho Bahrain Govornmont in the oase of Hawor
Islands. Submitted by the Ruler of Qatar.

1. The Bahrain Government try to find out \
Justification for tho action they dared in the
Hawar Islands but they fall into confusion about
the matter. They lose the point and then l-avs
recourse to sophistication and the obliteration
of facto to which no one, who has the least know­

ledge of conditions which prevailed in these ielands
in the past, would support them.
In studying their memorandum and examining
No comment its contents I did not find out that they have
put forward even a fraction of the .evidence which
can be considered as sufficient proof from an

indicative point of view, or a proof which can be a
likely argument to justify their recent action in
islands which form a part of Qatar. All that it
contained are some far fetched allegations which
are remote from the truth.
2. Tho Bahrain Government deny my statement that

they did not occupy those islands except in recent
days, and they allege that they belong to the
No comment Ruler of Bahrain, and that they were inhabited by
their subjects for more than a century* Then they
recant and contradict their own allegations and
I- ...M-
support my statement in saying that their military
detachment was only recently stationed there*

3. Whoever views this allegation will find it
not only illogical but also far away from sensibi­
lity, and will be surprised by its strangeness and
But Shaikh bare-faced contradictory appearance* That islands
Abdullah does
not claim that which are so described by the Bahrain Government,
.Qatar detachments
or representatives and whioh they claim as belonging to them and in-
were in Hawar. ^
habited by their subjects for over a century,;shoulfl