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time to time, or who pull up their fishing boats
(for a "dry" or repairs) temporarily, and to
whom reference was made by the ^uler of Bahrain
himself, and who then leave*

All people who knew these islandc since
olden times know nothing besides whnt we have
mentioned. The description given <.o it by the
No comment Bahrain Government, as mentioned above, does not
conform with any of the truth oither because of
their ignorance of "those islands or because they
want to deny the facts which are known to all,

and to rely on sophistication*
6. The Bahrain Government show surprise at
my statement that their recent action in Hawar
has no justification, and they covor these actions
K; comment by a robe of falsehood, and then they oall their

action by a name through which they try to cover
the right with a screen of the wrong, and the
word "the cultivation, by a Hulcr, of part of
hi8 domain" is a word which cannot bo used in
any way. The Bahrain Government have confessed,
in their memorandum, that their military detach­

ment camped on their behalf in the Hawar Islands
only in recont day6, and have built strongholds,
roads, wharves and signposts recently.
The confession of the Bahrain Government

about their having token the liberty of taking
those aotions in the Hawar Islands only in recent
days is directly conflicting with their allegation
of owning those islands in the past, and with
their description that t hey are a part of their
State, as it is impossible to oonoeive that
islands which are so described by them, and vrhl<h
they allege are subjeot to them and form part