"ملف 8/16 ملخص استخباراتي بشأن البحرين" [و‎‎٦‎٢] (٢٠٦/١٢٣)

181. BAHRAIN ,IND PALESTINE.
Local feeling seems to have, got rather lukewarm
on the Palestine issue. Recognition of the poor showing
of the Arab armies, their disunity, and of the results of
the early failure to reap the benefits of a compromise
have contributed to this. The callous, Arab individualism
has thus emerged undisguised*.;, in an attitude of indifference's
towards the fate of the refugees of their own race.
182. QATAR .
The Bahrain Government has long had an under
standing with local merchants that they must sell in Bahrain
half of any consignment of cereals they import for retranship
ment to another port. In order to avoid this levy, Abdullah
Darwish, a Qatar merchant, recently had a shipment of 400
tons of rice consigned to Dubai instead of to Bahrain.
The Shaikh of Dubai, however, adopted the Bahrain practice and
forced Abdullah Darwish to sell half his consignment in Dubai.
The remainder, further reduced by the theft of 400 bags at
Dubai, was eventually sent to Qatar, its price having greatly
increased.
183. TRUCIAL COAS T.
(i) Reference paragraph 167 (v) of Intelligence
Summary No.12.
It is reported that work on the Wadi al Jizzi
road was started and recently completed and that motor cars
can now use it with great ease.
(ii) Kalba . Reference paragraph 167 (vii) of In
telligence Summary No.12.
Shaikh Khalid has now established himself at
Kalba leaving his nephew, Shaikh Humaid, at Khor Fakkan.
184. SHIPPING.
(from 16th to 31st July):-
33 ships (9 British, 9 American, 2 Dutch, 7
Panamanian, 3 Norwegian, 2 Spanish, 1 Swedish) calld at the
port of Bahrain during the period 16th to 31st July. .Imports
were 2511 tons of general cargo for Bahrain and 1351 tons for
transhipment to the mainland. Exports were 36 tons of general
cargo and 265,775 tons of petroleum products.
(from 1st to 15th August)
34 ships (12 Panamanian, 10 British, 3 Spanish,
2 American, 2 Italian, 1 Canadian, 1 Dutch, 1 French, 1 Nor
wegian, and 1 Spanish) called at the port of Bahrain during
the period under review. Imports were 3694 tons of general
cargo for Bahrain and 876 tons for transhipment to the main
land. Exports were 28 tons of general cargo and 299,125 tons
and 26,000 drums of petroleum products.
185. METEOROLOGICA L.
Maximum temperature
Minimum temperature
Maximum humidity
Minimum humidity
105.3°
on
3-8-1948
85.0
on
11-8-1948
94$
on
1-8-1948
43$
on
12-8-1948
(SGD) C.J. PELLY
Political Agent, Bahrain.