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Police and public security.
what was happening no attempt was made to interfere.
The four uncles buried the girl’s body in the floor of
the house and escaped. It is thought that they are in
hiding in Kattar.
Towards the end of the year a night attack was made
on the house of a Bahrani in Jed Ali, below Rafaa.
After investigations the Police arrested one Isa bin
Isa alMullah of Pafaa. The victim hovered for some
time between life and death but finally recovered; the
accused was tried and found guilty and sentenced to two
years hard labour and deportation. The convicted man
is a nephew of the notorious Mohomed al Mullah who was
sentenced some years ago to penal servitude in India
together with several other members of a gang of gunmen
who took part in a series of murderous attacks on
Bahrani villages, which were instigated by some of the
Khalifah Shaikhs and who were finally captured after
an unsuccessful attempt to assasinate H. E. Shaikh Hamad.
The attack on Jed Ali was made by several persons but
unfortunately no information was obtained as to the
identity of the other men. In this case none of the
Ruling family v/ere implicated.
Liauor . In my last annual reuort I mentioned that
there was an increase in the illicit manufacture and
sale of liquor. A few years ago drunkenness was almost
unknown in Bahrain but during the last year or two the
habit of drinking liquor has increased very rapidly.
The habit has been introduced by Jews, Iraqis and by
Bahrain subjects who have travelled in !, wet TT countries.
H. E. Shaikh Hamad regards the use of alcohol by his
subjects with extreme abhorrence and he is greatly
concernedbecause severe! of the younger members of his