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witli permanent inhabitants, their families
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herds and boats, and who has "created a dome
out of a grain" ? Unless perhaps the Bahrain
Government had "a rovelotion in the underground
world".
Perhaps an oppor wv'uity "Oght occur in
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♦I have been twice the near future for Your Excellency to visit
and tho Bahrain des­
cription is a good the Howar Islands to enable you personally
deal more accurate
than Qatar*s. to see for yourself and ascertain who is the
truthful amongst us, so that your judgment may
be formed in the light of true facts.
The reason which has prompted us to
ask for the prevention of the Bahrain Govern­
ment from the actions which thoy took in the

Hawar Islands is not greed for the presence
of oil but to prevent the Bahrain Government
from taking a part of Qatar.
8. In article 6 of their memorandum the

Bahrain Government aski To whom dojd^ the Hawar
Islands belong if not to Bahrain ? It would
have been better had they asked i To whom does
Qatar belong if not to Bahrain 7 Whatever can
No comment be said about Hawar can be said about the whole
of Qatar, and wo ask the Bahrain Government
whether the Hawar Islands, from a geographical

point of view, comprise of a part of Bahrain
completing it from the south or a part of
Qatar completing it from the north 7
Our previous remark, about the indepen­
dence of Qatar and the recognition of our ruler-

ship over it, carries its meaning which, if
the Bahrain Government does not perceive, is
not latent to those who have knowledge of
situations in these parts.