'File 8/16 Bahrain Intelligence Summaries' [‎160r] (319/330)

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Intelligence Summer/ of the
Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. , Bahrain,
for the period 1st to 15th
Po.of 1944. Docembor 1944•
Shipping
fv/elve ships called at Bahrain during the period
under review. Six of them were of British registry, four
American, one Dutch, and. one Swedish* The total imports
v/ere 1035 tons for Bahrain and S tons transhipment cargo
for Saudi Arabia* The exports were 20 tons general cargo
and 84,463 tons petroleum products*
Movements of officials
Major A.L. Graonwuy, M.B.S., Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. Surgeon,
Rushira, left Bahrain for India by air on the 3rd December.
visitors
(i) On the 9th Jlis excellency Monsieur Delvaux de Fenffe,
thv) Belgian Ambassador to China, arrived at Bahrain and left
for India on the 10th*
(ii) On the 9th Group Captain May, accompanied by a number
of technical officers, arrived from Habbaniyah and left on
the 11th*
(xii) *ar. h. L. Jarath, Director of Posts and folegraphs,
Karachi, arrived from Karachi on the 14th and left on the
17 th*
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Qatar Affairs
For the first time for eight years a representative of
the Shaikh of Bahrain has visited Qatar. Abdulla bin jabar,
a trusted servant of His Highness, left during the first two
or three days of December for Qatar bearing letters from His
Highness to Shaikh Abdullah bin Qasim A1 Thani, C.I.E. The
representative was well received and His Highness is parti
cularly pleased with the conversations which took place
between his representative and the Shaikh of Qatar. As a
result of the report of Abdullah bin Jabar His Highness 1
outlook towards the Shaikh of Qatar has much improved and
he remarked recently to the Adviser that'he would,be heartily
thankful when the Zubara question was finally settled as
it appeared to be as resilient as a tennis ball and that he
was very tired of the whole affair. His Highness is not
alone in this.
Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
(i) On the 12th Captain R.E.R. Bird, Political Officer,
Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. , accompanied a Royal Air Force party to
Abu Dhabi where they propose to enlarge and improve the
Existing landing facilities. The Political Officer, Trucial
Coast, returned to Sharjah on the 13th.
(ii) On the 30th of November a 75-mile an hour gale did
considerable damage to house property at Sharjah where 1^
inches of rain in twenty m:nutes did nothing to improve
the living conditions of the Political Officer, Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. .
Three sailing boats in the Sharjah creek were sunk and one of
the crew was drowned. Casualties have already occurred at
Ajman whore fishing crafts were sunk.
Thefts of Royal Air Force ammunition
On the 7th Flight Lieutenant Frankland, D.A.P.M. from
Habbaniyah, called on 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. in connection
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