"ملف 8/16 تقارير استخباراتية بشأن البحرين" [و‎‎١‎٥] (١٤٦/٢٩)

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55 * b.a.f. »plans mishap :
On the 18th March an R.A.F. Wellington flew over the
s. s. 1 'Afghanistan" anchored off the island of Abu Musa to drop a
message on board. Unfortunately in doing so the pilot misjudged
his height and struck the top of one of the ship's masts,
carrying it away, and damaging the tail and rudder of his air
craft. After jettisoning its petrol the ’plane made a belly
landing on the island. The crew were uninjured and were taken
to Sharjah the. same day by launch.
The engines were undamaged but the 'plane has been
’’written off* and offered, with the dismantled engines, to the
Shaikh of Sharjah. There is quite a brisk trade springing up on
the Trucial Coast of beating out trays from ’pranged' aircraft.
56s AUTOfllATIC TELEPHONES .
Reference paragraph 29 of Intelligence Summary No.3.
Messrs. Gray Mackenzie have now sold Messrs. Cable
and Wireless a plot of ground for their new Telephone Exchange
and Town Office.
57. SAUDI ARABIA .
(i) At the request of the Amir Saud bin Abdulla bin Jalawi
llu / s ^ assa ? Group/captain H.P.G. Leigh, the Bahrain State Engineer,
made an examination of the tom of/S**e«a where the Mir proposes
to instal an electric plant. Group/Capl;. Leigh left by launch
for A1 Khobar on the 20th and returned to Bahrain on the 25th.
(ii) An unconfirmed report states that the Saudi Trade
Agent in Bahrain recently received telegraphic instructions to
close down the Bahrain Office and proceed with his staff to Saudi
Arabia. ^He has replied that he will require a month to wind up
his affairs before he is ready to move,.
58. KUWAITI STUDENTS .
On the 20th March 31 Kuwaiti students accompanied by
4 Egyptian teachers arrived from Kuwait in a Bahrain Government
launch as guests of the Bahrain Education Department. They were
quartered in the Qudhaibiyeh house of Shaikh Abdulla bin Isa,
Minister of Education, and were entertained to dinner during
A?f i ?n Stay by both His Highness Shaikh Sir Salman and by Shaikh
Abdulla bin Isa. They also visited the Refinery and the new
pier at Sitra.
0 n the 24th they attended a display of physical drill
by the students of Bahrain at which His Highness and the other
members of the A1 Khalifah family were present.
^ , On the 25th they left by launch for A1 Khobar on
their return journey.
59. RULING FAMILY .
_ . 0n the 26th Shaikh Muhammad bin Isa al Khalifah, uncle
of His Highness, returned to Bahrain by air from his annua]
visit to Egypt.
60. SHIPPING .
Ten ships (4 British, 4 American, 1 Canadian and 1
Panamanian) called at the port of Bahrain during the period
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