'File 8/16 Bahrain Intelligence Summary' [‎42r] (83/108)

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No. 20 of 1945.
Intelligence Summary of the
Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. , Bahrain, for
£er iod 16 t h to 31st October, 1945 .
166. MOVEMENTS OF OFFICIALS .
(i) On the 19th October J.A. Croning, Esq., I.S.O.,
M.B.E. , Under Secretary to the Hon'ble the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency.
in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , accompanied by members of ,the Political
Resident’s Staff arrived from Bushire by L.T. ’’Nearchus”.
(ii) On the 21st October Captain R.E.R. Bird,
Assistant 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, left for Sharjah by air
and returned on the 24th.
(iii) on the 22nd October the Hon'ble Lieutenant colonel
A.C. Galloway, O.B.E., Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ,
arrived from Bushire by H.M.S. "Seabelle".
(iv) On the 28th October the Hon'ble Sir Geoffrey Prior,
K.C.I.E., arrived by air from the United Kingdom.
(v) On the 23th October C.J. Pelly, Esq., O.B.E.,
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, left by air for Sharjah and returned
on the 30th. »
!67. CALLS .
On the 30th October His Highness Shaikh Sir 3alman
bin Hamad al Khalifah, K.C.I.E., Ruler of Bahrain, accompanied
by his uncle Shaikh Abdullah bin Isa al Khalifah, called at
the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. on the Hon'ble Lieutenant Colonel A.C. Gallo r ay,
Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , and on the Hon'ble
Sir Geoffrey prior, K.C.I.E. The Hon'ble the Political
Resident and the Hon'ble Sir Geoffrey Prior returned these
calls the same day at His Highness' palace at Qodhaibiyeh.
163. DUBAI-ABU DHABI BOUNDARY DISPUTE .
/Assistant
During the night of the 17th of October Shaikh Rashid,
son of the Shaikh of Dubai, occupied Khor Ghanadhah with about
300 armed men. Many of these were carried by sea and they
brought with them large quantities of building material and
showed every intention of building a fort which would command
the Khor. ‘ As in the other frucial Coast States, the boundary
between the sheikhdoms of Dubai and Abu Dhabi has never been
defined and while negotiations between these two were nearing
a conclusion in 1937 Ghanadhah was not included in the Shaikh
of Dubai's most extreme claim. His son's act>^therefore,
apart from being a breach of the treaty with His Majesty's
Government of 1853 - which forbade aggression by sea - was a
Hitlerian attempt to present Government and the shaikh of Abu
Dhabi with a fait accompli. The visits of the/political
Agent and of 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. to the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. recorded
in the first paragraph of this summary wer :* made as a result
of this move. The Assistant 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. reported that
the Shaikh of Abu Dhabi was preparing, by calling in his
tribal supporters, to meet force with force, and it seemed^
not improbable that hostilities, perhaps ultimately involving
every shaikhdom on the coast, were imminent. Acting on
instructions from the Hon'ble the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. 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. demanded from the Shaikh of Dubai that hu
withdraw his forces forthwith from Ghanadhah. This demand
was complied with on the 29th of October and the status quo
restored; at the same time a promise was extracted from the
Shaikh of Abu Dhabi that he would not take any retaliatory
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