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No. 2 of 1938.
/ Intelligence Summary of ttie Political
Age jit, Bahrain, for the period 16 th
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7. Shipping .
(i) 3.S.Lichtenfels (German) arrived here on the 14th Jan
uary and left on the 16th January 1938 after discharging 19,643
packages for Bahrain and 1202 packages for transhipment to the
mainland. She took with her a cargo of 165 bags Lingah shells.
(ii) S.o.Sotenfels (German) arrived here on the 17th and
left on the 19th January 1938 after discharging 10,030 packages
for Bahrain and 247 packages for transhipment to the mainland.
She took with her a cargo of 125 bags Lingah shells.
(iii) S.S. Hoegh Silverlight (Dutch) arrived here on the
18th January 1938 and left the same day after discharging 1985
packages for Bahrain. She took with her 31 nongs empty cylinders.-
(iv) 3.3. Shikisan Maru (Japanese) arrived here on the 20th
January 1938 and left the same day after discharging 7400 packa
ges for Bahrain.
(v) S.S. Khuzistan (British) arrived here on the 21st Jan- ^
uary 1938 ana left the same day with 791 nongs empty drums and
tins. She discharged here 2990 packages for Bahrain and 3810
packages for transhipment to the mainland.
(vi) Tankship Carina (Swedish) arrived here•on the 26th and
left on the 27th January 1938 with a cargo of 9500 tons of Crude *
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8. Movements of British Officials.
(i) Major Monawar Khan Afridi, I.M.S., arrived in Bahrain ^
from Karachi on the 19th of January to make a preliminary malaria
investiga ion and left on the 30th.
(ii) Mr. R.W. Spear, Assistant Director of Posts and Tele
graphs, Sind and Baluchistan Circle, arrived here from Karachi
on the 26th January and left on the 31st.
9. Local Affairs.
News was received that His Highness the Shaikh of Bahrain
arrived at Jeddah in H.M.3. "Londonderry" on the 22nd January
1938.
10. Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. .
Captain Galloway accompanied Dr. Storm of the American
Mission on a journey some 20 miles from Sharjah along the Barai-
mi track wnen the latter, with the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. 's permission.- ^
visited the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. to attend a son of Muhammad"bin Dalmuk,
a much respected and influential relation of the Shaikh of Dubai,
who was in the last stages of tuberculosis. Permission to visit I
the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. was given to Dr. Storm mainly]because the
Shaikh of Dubai urgently requested that he might be allowed to go.
This visit serves to emphasise the urgent need for establishing^
some form of medical unit of our own on the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. , this
being necessary not only for political reasons but also because
of the fast increasing contacts between theCoast and the outer
worlds ..
REGH. POL D£P-
\ OMAR 1938
: NDiA OFFICE