"ملف 8/16 ملخص استخباراتي بشأن البحرين" [و‎‎٢‎٢] (١٧٤/٤٣)

them a plot of government land. This it has agreed to do on
condition that should the land no longer be required by the
P.G.L.S, it should first be offered to the Bahrain Government.
55. SLAVERY .
(i) Two women were kidnapped at the wells in
Sharjah by a gang of bedouin robbers and taken to Buraimi. A«
pursuit party consisting of 50 men was immediately despatched
in three cars. They succeeded in restoring the two kidnapped
women who were brought back to Sharjah.
(ii) On the 19th March a woman of Dubai, a manumitted
slave, and her son were kidnapped and taken to Himriyah. There
her prospective buyer, on hearing that she was a manumitted
slave, declined to buy her, and on the 24th March she was
rescued by an emissary of the Ruler of Dubai and brought back
to Dubai*
56. TBUCIaL COAST .
(*) Petroleum Development (Trucial Co a st) Ltd .
Reference paragraph 260(i) of Intelligence
Summary No.19 of 1948.
The Company have removed their camp from the
Jabal Ali area and brought their stores and equipment to
their base at Sharjah. Their seismic party are at present
operating in the Dubai and Sharjah areas from a line running
northwards and eastwards. In order to facilitate their
operations in the Sharjah area the Company have paid a sub
stantial subsidy to Muhammad bin Ali al Huwaidin, Chief of the
Beni Qitab tribe, the largest and most important tribe' in that
area.
(ii) On the 16th a number of the company geologists
carried out a reconnaissance flight over Oman and after landing
in Masirah for refuelling they returned to Sharjah. On the
17th they left for Bahrain.
(iii) Shariah.
Reference paragraph 47 (i) of Intelligence
Summary No.5.
As medical opinion here was unanimous that his
further treatment called for an operation the Shaikh decided
to be operated on in India despite the risk attached to his
removal. On the 21st he left Bahrain by air for Bombay.
Shortly after his departure it was rumoured that he had died.
This is now thought to be untrue but later reports state that
he is seriously ill and is being given blood transfusions. His
three sons, Shaikhs Saqr, Muhammad, and Salim bin Sultan, left
on the 22nd for India via Saudi Arabia.
(iv) Reference paragraph 17 (vi) of Intelligence
Summary No.2.
On the 11th Shaikh Rashid bin Humaid, returned
from Buraimi to Ajman after becoming reconciled with Shaikh
S-aqr^bin Sultan of the Nai’m, through the mediation of Shaikh
Sulaiman bin Himyar of Jabal al Akhdhar who went with him for
this purpose.