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'File 8/16 Bahrain Intelligence Summaries' [113r] (225/330)
The record is made up of 1 file (163 folios). It was created in 1 Jan 1943-31 Dec 1944. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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8 ? h shaikh Mohammed bin Isa A1 Khalifah the senior
uncle of His Highness the Ruler left by air for Cairo via Beirut*
Snaikh Mohammed will spend two or three days in Beirut visiting
two of his sons who are being educated at the American University.
p 10 visit to Cairo has no political significance whatsoever
as it has been customary for some years past for Shaikh Mohammed
to spend the hotter months of the summer in Cairo*
(vi) Reference paragraph 86(ix) of Intelligence Summary No.10
OI JLy^fc^r •
Mr. Ward P. Anderson the General Manager of the Bahrain
Petroleum Company returned from Tehran and left again for Tehran
on the 15th. The purpose of this second visit to Tehran is the
same as on the occasion of his last visit.
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(vii) Reference paragraph 86(x) of Intelligence Summary No.10 of
1944 •
Mr. Lloyd N. Hamilton l©£t for the United States on the 1st
of June and Hr. Russell M. Brown the Assistant General Manager of
the Bahrain Petroleum Company left for the United States on the
5th of Juneo
(viii) Mr. RcA*R. Weiland the Station Manager of the British
Overseas Airways Corporation left for Karachi on sick leave and
has been relieved by Mr. H. L. Pointer.
(ix) On the 12th Lieutenant Colonel G.L. Collard, I.W.T. Basrah,
arrived by air for consultations with Messrs. Gray Mackenzie &
Co., Ltd., with regard to the Ras Tanurah project.
On the 14th Mr. J.L. Battey, and Mr. V/. Meikle of Messrs.
Gray Mackenzie & Co., Ltd., accompanied by Lt. Col. G.L.Collard
left for Dhahran.
(x) Air Vice-Marshal C.A. Stevens, M.C., arrived on the 15th
and left the same day by air to India.
105. Labour
Reference paragraph Ho.100 of Intelligence Summary Ho.10
of 1944.
On the 1st of June 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.
presided at a meeting
of the Senior Officers of the Services and the heads of the prin
cipal business houses in Bahrain* The meeting was called to
discuss the very serious shortage of labour and to consider means
by which the shortage could be remedied. It was generally agreed
that all the employable labour was being employed and that it
would be unwise to interfere with the economic life of the country
by attempting to curtail further the number of persons engaged in
this yea^s pearling. It was decided to endeavour to recruit
labour from Iraq hh or Persia and it was understood that the
Bahraiu Government would probably raise no objection provided
suitable guarantees were given with regard to rationing, housing,
and the repatriation of "fbreign" labour.
106. King r s Birthday
'In accordance with instructions no ceremonies were held on
King^ Birthday on the 8th but the flagstaff was decorated.
General pleasure was evinced at the award to Dr. Paul W.
Harrison of the American Arabian Mission by His Majesty the King
of the Kaiser-i-^Hind medal in Gold in recognition of his long
and devoted service to the peoples of the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
.
107. S hipping Spa ce
The shortage of shipping space has seriously affected the
economic life of the Islands. Tea and sugar quotas have not
come forward from India for some time and no steamer has brought
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The file contains fortnightly intelligence summaries produced by the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. at Bahrain for the years 1943-44. The reports, marked as secret, were sent to the Government of India, the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. , and numerous diplomatic, political, and military offices in the Middle East. Each report covers a two week period.
The reports are divided into short sections that relate to a particular subject, often closely connected to the Second World War. Contained within the file is intelligence on the following:
- international shipping and the activities of the Royal Navy, Royal Air Force, and commercial transport companies such as Imperial Airways Limited;
- the movements of British and Foreign subjects, and Arab notables;
- local affairs of Bahrain, as well as regional news from Saudi Arabia, Qatar (particularly Zubarah 18th-century town located 105 km from Doha. ), Persia [Iran], and the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. ;
- economic matters and food supplies;
- the activities of the oil companies;
- War funds;
- defence matters;
- smuggling of gold and arms and the traffic of slaves;
- American interests;
- meteorological information;
- locusts;
- medical matters.
Appended to most reports is a table containing shipping data.
Written by hand on the cover of the file is: 'Destroy, but retain '44 summaries'.
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- 1 file (163 folios)
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The file is arranged chronologically.
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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 165; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 2-73; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence.
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- IOR/R/15/2/315
- Title
- 'File 8/16 Bahrain Intelligence Summaries'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:164v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence