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of their country for more than a century, should
remain all along these years without a detachment
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V k, V. r. ; ;« for security and for the administration of Justice
. I and to represent the Ruler of Bahrain in those
Inlands which they bewail a6 'being part of their
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state, and allege that it consist*:, of villages
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♦ There are goats inhabited by people with boats and herds. We also
and some cattle.
observe, from another point of view, clear con­
tradictions in the memorandum of the Bahrain

Government. A confession by them that the islands
are owned by the Ruler of Qatar is abbut clear,
and that is by the fact that some incidents took
place in tho not far off past, between Qatar and
Bahrain, which are recorded in history and in

the memories of some living persons, which has
shattered relations of "brotherlinoss" and
threatened interests more than at present. The
fact that the Bahrain Government did not mention
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• It would have been} there being any detachment stationed by them
more effective to 8
give proof of a 0 at Hawar Islands under those circumstances, and
Qatar detachment Q
having been there 8 during which time it tfwas more necessary to bring
in the past \ 5
8 out a detachment than it is now, and for the same
reasons which the Bahrain Government now want
to use as Justification for tho presence of
their detachment, is conclusive proof that the
Hawar Islands arc owned by the Ruler of Qatar

at least since that time and up to the present
in which tho Bahrain Government now try to use
the prosonae of their recently stationed detach­
ment as an excuse for taking Hawar Islands. Had
the Ruler of Bahrain known anything about this
he would have alluded to it in his memorandum
which is in our possession. His silenoe about It

is a considerable hint to our ownership of these