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9. Tho Bahrain Government try to find out

some moans of geographical justification for
including the Hawar Islands among the number
of islands which form Bahrain, but they find
nothing more than saying "The situation of
the Hawar Islands i3 undisputed. Its situa­

tion is more known to tne Rulers and public
of Bahrain than to Shaikh Abdullah the Ruler
of Qatar, because the Ruler and public of
Bahrain frequent those islands whilst no one
• This is quits
true of Shaikh of the A1 Thaui family hud evor set foo«
Abdullah bin Qasira.
over it11. This is a foolish saying which
shows the ignorance of its author about

geographical situations. The Hawar Islands
are not more than a mile from Qatar and it is
only separated from Qatar, during high tide,
by shallow water from the soa, but during
There is one place
where there is low ebb the short distance between Qatar and
only about 3 feet
of water at low Hawar becomes nearly uncovered by sea water
springs.
and so directly connected as to be about
traversable by foot whilst, on the other
hand, the Hawar Islands are tens of miles
away from Bahrain separated by deep sea which
forms the passage of sea communications,

and which is the natural boundary between
Qatar and Buhrain. The Hawar Islands are
Equally that considered, f rom a geographical point of view,
Qatar is part
of Arabia l as a part which completes Qatar from the North
Any one who has the least primary knowledge
of geography will agree with this*

The tracing by &he Bahrain Government
of the geographical connection of Hawar to.
Bahrain by saying that the people of Bahrain
frequent the islands or hy saying that the