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ssinnq Their appearance invariably strikes visitors as excellent. The Natiirj
are stationed in Manamah and Muharraq.
(Hi) The strength of these bodies is given below
Strength on
1-1-1933.
Indian Police .. > • * •
Local Police .. • • * * 118
Q
Followers
Naturs " * • * *
257
(iv) The replacement of Indian Police by local men has now been success-
fully completed, the four Indians who now remain being Instructors. Four Arab
Non-Commissioned Officers were sent for training with the IDth Baluch Regi
ment at Karachi, and when they return they will be used as Instructors and will
replace the Indians now employed.
(v) The Bahrain Government have also ashed for the services of a Non-
Commissioned Officer of the Indian Police to instruct the Armed Police in lathi
drill.
5. Local Affairs—(i) There have been no agitations or Sunni Shi’ah
quarrels during the year and in spite of hard times and unemployment there has
been an unusually small number of serious crimes, though there has been an
increase in petty thieving and pick-pocketing.
(ii) The drink habit tends to spread and there has been an increase in the
number of liquor cases. The vigilance of the Police and the severity of the
punishments meted out to offenders has had a salutary effect and owners of
illicit stills take the most careful precautions to conceal their apparatus and
wares.
(Hi) On the eve of the 1st January 1933 a girl aged 16 years was murdered
(though custom would condone the act) by her uncles in circumstances of excep
tional brutality for unchastity. The men then tied to Qatar where they are still
at large.
(iv) On the 10th January a Najdi stabbed a Bahrain subject over a few
annas. The case was tried by the Political Agent, who sentenced the Najdi to
death. The sentence was confirmed by the Governor-General in Council and
the man was executed in Bahrain on the morning of the 10th April.
6. Oil Concession. — (i) The Bahrain Petroleum Company, Limited, have
sunk live wells into the oil bearing stratum and are contemplating shipping
at the rate of seven hundred tons a day from the middle of 1934.
(ii) The Company have introduced a number of British subjects among
their personnel and the figures stand
Strength on
31-12-1933.
4
138
8
110
260
Class I—
Superior Staff
Class II—
Clerical ..
Camp
Artisans
Class Ill-
British
subjects.
Americans. Bahrainis.
Others,
8
19
4
1
1
--
2
12
10
Servants
Semi-skilled labour
Unskilled
3
3
1
5
42
104
4
57
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.. Artesian Wells. AUith a view to controlling the water supply the Bahrain
Government issued a notice in March forbidding the boring of new wells vithou
sanction and ordering that no more wells should be bored in the towns oi