'File 8/16 Bahrain Intelligence Summary' [‎30r] (59/108)

saying a good deal) the most harassed man in Bahrain. He
has not spared himself in doing his best to make the stoppage
as infrequent as possible; but he has had many difficulties
to compete with. in the typically whimsical, fickle,
inconstant and wholly damnable Arab way, workmen were taken
away from him to build a house when they were in the middle
of constructing a power-house for a new generator which, if
it had been installed, would have avoided the stoppages.
Forty to fifty R.A.F. personnel have been flown out
of Bahrain as a result of heat exhaustion and severe "prickly
heat" - a skin disease which in its mildest form produces
nervous irritation and when severe can be acutely poisonous -
no European or Indian in Bahrain is now free from it. Many
of the Arabs also suffer. There are 17 Indian Other Ranks
in hospital with heat stroke.
118. THEFT IN BAPCO STORE .
Reference paragraph 104 of Intelligence Summary No.13
of 1945.
Minnick has now given notice of his intention to
appeal against his sentence.
119. AMERICAN PLANE MISHAP .
On the 29th July It was reported to the political
Agent that an American plane travelling from Karachi to
Abadan had been lost for the last two days. It had been
last heard of east of Sharjah but had sent no distress
signals. political Agents, Muscat and Kuwait, and the
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. Agent at Sharjah were informed.• On the same day
the wreckage of this plane was discovered by Bedouin 13-J-
miles south-east of Dubai, and reported to the Royal Air
Force. Rescue parties were rushed to the spot and the
bodies of three of the crew removed to Abadan by air for
burial. The wreckage has been examined with a view to dis
covering the cause of the crash but its results are not
yet known here.
120. AMERICAN SURVEY PARTY .
Reference paragraph 108 of Intelligence Summary No.13
of 1945.
The American Survey Party returned to Sharjah from
Buraimi and Abu Dhabi on the 7th after completing their
work in those areas. On the 15th they left Sharjah by
launch on a voyage along the coast up to Ras Dibah.
121. TRUCIAL COAST A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. .
Reference paragraph 98(ii) of intelligence Summary
No.12 of 1945.
information has been received that a four-month
truce has been concluded between Abu Dhabi and Bani Qitab
during which period efforts will be made by both parties
to settle the dispute.
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122 * the GENERAL ELECTION - LOCAL OPINION .
The Sheikh and his followers here are naturally firm
believers in the superiority of rule by one man, or at most,
by him and his few advisers; and, fundamentally, this is
generally accepted as the form of government destined for
the sons of Adam. To such a view the deposition of
Mr. Churchill from his high place, and the discarding of
his leadership with the war still unfinished has come as
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