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dv.'dliivjp «'.g la in Hawar, In $act the
conditions of Hawar nro comparatively the
same as that of Zokhnooniyyah yet the Saudi

Arabian Government sow no harm f rom the con­
ditions mentioned above, and that is ueoauBe
they 3 aw no reason for preventing persons
who under such conditions settla on the
islands, or for taking any other steps against
♦Which are they ? them. There are a number of islands in 'Oman,

on the southern side of Qatar, v/hich are in­
habited by persons ftfora Qatar who go t o settle
there in winter and return in summer, and in
which they have built 3tone houses, water
reservoirs and mosques and in which they have
sot up fisu trup3 and nets. Their houses

and traps arc there up to this hour; would it
then occur to us to claim these islands of our
neighbours because some of our subjects go
to settle there every year and because they
have built Ileuses and set up traps there ?
V/puld any one in the world agree with us if

v/o raise the same plea as that of the Ruler
of Bahrain for claiming the rights of our
neighbours only because our subjects are in
their territory ? Can tho settlement of
foreigners in other people1 e countries be
taken as a reason for their country to take
possession of the territory in which they
settle ? Unless perhape this ia a new in­

vention v/hich the Bahrain Government want t o
put into practice, it would then be a differed
mattor. Would it then occur to the Bahrain
Conditions are Government to send their military detachment
different.
to Zakhnooniyyah and take poeeeesion of it