IOR/R/15/2/412

The volume contains correspondence between the Political Resident in Bushire, the Political Agent in Bahrain and the Secretary of State for India, on the Qatar oil concession, on the Southern boundary of Qatar and on the role of Ibn Saud in the negotiation.

The volume includes:

• meeting notes, copies of telegrams and letters on Qatar and Kuwait oil concessions;
• note from the Political Agent in Kuwait to the Political Resident dated 23 Jan 1934 about the Qatar and Hasa Oil concessions and the Kuwait Neutral Zone (ff. 60-63);
• memorandum on the political importance of 'the maintenance of a British position on the Arab littoral of the Gulf' (ff. 71-76) and the need to offer protection to the Sheikh of Qatar in return for an 'undertaking on his part to grant a concession to the Anglo Persian Oil Company (Iraq Petroleum Company);
• correspondence between the British Air Ministry and the India Office about air facilities in Qatar;
• note referring to a conversation that occurred at the end of 1922 between Sir Percy, Ibn Saud and Major Holmes regarding the southern boundaries of Qatar and the political relationship between Qatar and Saudi Arabia (f. 116C);
• memorandum from the meetings occurred on 11-12 Mar 1934 between the Sheikh Abdullah bin Qasim al-Thani and the Political Resident re oil concession (ff. 131-140);
• copies of draft Qatar Oil Concession;
• a sketch of Qatar, ink on fabric (f. 212);
• memorandum on the frontiers of Saudi Arabia (ff. 196-199).

There is an index at the end of the volume ( folios 211-216).