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'File 8/16 Bahrain Intelligence Summary' [26r] (51/108)
The record is made up of 1 file (53 folios). It was created in 1 Jan 1945-31 Dec 1945. 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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taken refuge with Shaikh Muhammad bin Ali bin Huwaidin of the
Beni Qitab.
(ii) The one-year-old camel looting dispute between
Muhammad bin Ali bin Rubayyi’, Chief of the Beni Qitab of the
Aflaj, and the Shaikh of Abu Dhabi has reached a critical
stage, and skirmishes between the parties are expected to take
place at any moment. The Shaikh of Abu Dhabi considers himself
strong enough to cope with situation and has sent supplies of
rice and grain to his men at A1 ’Ain in Buraimi and has ordered
the withdrawal of his camels for use in repulsing any raids by
the Beni Qitab. It is only expected that raids will be made
by the Beni Qitab in the Buraimi area.
99. THE INDIAN FILM UNIT .
Reference paragraph 91 of Bahrain Intelligence Summary
No. 11 of 1945.
The Indian Film Unit left by launch for the scene of the
pearling operations on the 24th and returned on the 26th June.
They expect to leave for India the first week of July.
100. L ABOUR TROUBLES .
The Municipal scavengers struck for higher wages on the,
26th instant. Messrs. Gray Mackenzie's stevedores and boatmen
made similar demands on the 28th., and the taxi-drivers were
contemplating making them at the same time. The "Zeitgeist"
explains these happenings but their immediate occasion seems
to have been the action of a Palestinian contractor imported by
the A.M.W.D. to engage and work labour for the new air-strip -at
Muharraq aerodrome. This man broke, in the spirit at any rate,
an unwritten (and very flexible) agreement between employers of
labour .here, to pay the same wages for similar work. The
results were a flow of labour to him, general unrest amongst
all labour in the Island and the strikes and threats of striking
just reported. The situation was met by his stopping recruit
ment and dismissing a token number of
coolies
A term used to describe labourers from a number of Asian countries, now considered derogatory.
. The Bahrain
Petroleum Company had not, fortunately, to face a strike but
did lose temporarily, a number of their workmen. Two points
were emphasised by these happenings. Firstly, the labour
market here is a seller’s and not a buyer's market^ secondly,
the island being such a compact unit, the labour as a whole is
immediately sensitive to any changes made in the conditions of
any section of it. The attitude of labour, and indeed lesser
employees of all kinds, is an unattractive mixture of inde
pendence and superficial servility.
101. METEOROLOGICAL.
Maximum temperature
Minimum temperature
Maximum humidity
Minimum humidity
101°F. on 26.6.1945.
77°F. on 17.6.1945.
98$ on 23.6.1945.
46$ on 26.6.1945.
Sd./- C.J. PELLY,
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.
, Bahrain.
NS/7.7.
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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 year 1945. 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 is numbered from 1 to 24 and 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:
- shipping;
- the movements of British and Foreign subjects, and Arab notables;
- local affairs of Bahrain, as well as regional news from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. , and the wider Middle East;
- economic matters and food supplies;
- Bahrain Petroleum Company and other matters of oil;
- a visit to Bahrain of the Indian Film Unit;
- the Bahrain ruling family;
- the Middle East Anti-Locust Unit;
- workers' strikes in Bahrain;
- local crime;
- regional boundary disputes;
- weather and meteorological data.
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- 1 file (53 folios)
- Arrangement
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 54; 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 2-13; 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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- 'File 8/16 Bahrain Intelligence Summary'
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- front, front-i, 2r:53v, back-i, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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