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Bahrain-Qatar dispute over Zubarah, 1953-1960 561

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friondly torms with Shaikh Gallium but Shaikh
Salman disliked him personally. l*'or the paot
fifteen years the great part of the trouble
had come from tlic other aide. Shaikh Salman
had made difficultieu about Qataria entering
Bahraih, had increased transit dues, had
agreed that only specified people should vloit
Zubarah and had then failed to specify the
pcqplc, had sent a party of schoolboys, who
: had written "Bahrain" on the walls of the fort
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2 prevented from landing in Bahrain some years
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brother, Shaikh Hassan, had died recently
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the area around Zubarah without hindrance.
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his representative in the area. Would -the
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(c) Where was Zubarah ? Was it not in
Qatar ? Did not the 1916 agreement
acknowledge his father as sovereign in Qatar ?
Nothing was said in that agreement making
reservations about Zubarah. If he had
sovereign righto in Zubarah why should he shut
hid fort or move out his men for another
Ruler ? ' Would the Ruler of Bahrain shut