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21. L/P&S/io, P595/i927(3)» P/.i 160/31, Senior Naval Officer to Coin-
mandcr-in-Chicf East Indies, 18 Nov 1930 (extract).
22. L/P&S/i 2/3767, PZ1562, ‘Bahrain Intelligence Sumtnarv’, no. 6 of
>935 (15 "31 Mar 1935).
23- R/i5/,/(>77, Political Agent Bahrain to Political Resident, 31 July 1037.
24. L/P&S/i2/3882, P/,3286/37, Political Resident to Government of India,
19 May 1937 (telegram).
25. Ibid., PZ4140/37, Political Resident to Government of India, 24 June
1937 (telegram).
26. Ibid.
27. Ibid., PZ5958/37, ‘Persian Gulf Intelligence Report’, June '937
(extracts).
28. Ibid., PZ7615/37, Officiating Political Resident to India Office, 13
Nov 1937.
29. Ibid.
30. Ibid.
31. Ibid.
32. Ibid.
33. A translation of the undertaking, signed on 11 Rajab 1356 (17 Sep
1937), *s enclosed ibid.
34. ‘Handsome in a negro fashion, he was a sulky-looking youth and,
I was confidentially informed, was already a past-master in the traditional
desert intrigues (O'Shea, The Sand Kings of Oman, p. 24).
35. R/15/1/284, Sultan bin Saqr to Political Resident, 27 Safar 1353 (11
June 1934).
36. Ibid., 29 Muharram 1353 (14 May 1934).
37. Ibid., minute, 6 Nov 1934.
38. R/15/2/916, ‘Dubai Ruling Family’, n. d.
CHAPTER 13
1. J. E. H. Boustcad, ‘Abu Dhabi, 1761-1963’, Journal of the Royal Central
Asian Society, l (1963) 273.
2. L/P&S/i2/3837, PZ6237/37, Political Agent Bahrain to Political Resident,
12 Aug 1937. Enclosed in Officiating Political Resident to India Office,
27 Aug 1937.
3. L/P&S/12/3828, Political Resident to India Office, 28 Oct 1945 (tele­
gram).
4. Arbitration Concerning Buraimi ... (UK memorial); and Arbitration for
the Settlement of the Territorial Dispute . . . (Saudi memorial).
5. The USA was the first country to claim ownership of its continental
shelf, defined as the area of the seabed running from the coast down
to a depth of 100 fathoms (i.c. regardless of whether or not it was
covered by the pre-war definition of the extent of territorial waters).
By being able to claim ownership of its continental shelf, the riparian
state acquired ownership of such oil deposits as lay beneath it.
6. The ADMA was later to give up a portion of its concession to the
Abu Dhabi Oil (Japan) Company.
. In 1965 the ADPC gave up part of its concession, and this was
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taken over by Philips Petroleum.