'Adminisistration [Administration] Reports 1931-1935' [‎114r] (227/416)

(vii) I)r. W. W. ±lioms and the Reverend G. D. Van Peursem iDroceeded to
Darin on the 9th May and returned on the 14th.
(viii) In July His Majesty King Bin Sa’ud asked for medical help for
women and a party consisting of Dr. and Mrs. Dame, Mrs. Van Peursem, Miss
G. Davis and five compounders and servants left for Riyadh on the 26th July.
The patient for whom they had been called was a Wife of the King and another
lady of the Royal household. The party returned to Bahrain on the 24th
October. While in Riyadh they performed 130 operations, treated 3,267 cases
and received 221 out-calls.
23. Judicial. —The total number of Civil Suits instituted was one thousand
nine hundred and forty-one as compared with two thousand four and seventy-
one instituted during 1932 and the total number of criminal suits was four
hundred and seventy-two as compared with four hundred and forty-five for the
previous year.
(ii) The total number of petitions registered amounted to two thousand
three hundred and fifty-three and Insolvency cases to four.
'(Hi) One murder case was tried in which the accused was a subject of
Sa’udi Arabia. He was found guilty and sentenced to death. The sentence was
confirmed by the Governor General-in-Council and the execution was carried out
in Bahrain.
(iv) The decrease in the number of Civil Suits instituted is due to the
prevailing depression.
24. Visits of Government Officials and others. — (i) The Honourable Lieute
nant-Colonel T. C. W. Fowle, C.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. ,
visited Bahrain on the 6th February and landed for the day on the 12th March.
He again visited Bahrain from the 11th November to the 26th.
(ii) Air Commodore A. D. Cunningham, C.B., Chief of the Staff, British
Forces in ’Iraq, arrived on the 9th February.
(Hi) Colonel J. F. Turner, D.S.O., Director of Works in the Air Ministry,
visited Bahrain on the 23rd March.
(iv) Air-Vice Marshall C. S. Burnett, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., Air Officer Com
manding, British Forces in ’Iraq, arrived on the 9th May. He again visited
Bahrain on the 24th September and 16th November.
(v) Her Excellency Lady Willingdon passed through by Imperial Airways’
west bound aeroplane on the 15th June. She was met at the aerodrome by 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. .
(vi) Captain (now Major) C. G. Prior, lately 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,
passed through by the east bound aeroplane on the 8th June.
(vii) Major J. J. Rooney, I.M.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, Bushire, arrived on
a visit of inspection on the 2nd August.
(viii) Major C. E. IT. Bremner, MAh, 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. , Muscat, arrived on
the 9th November to meet the Honourable 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. ..
(ix) Captain D. E. Wallace, M.C., Civil Lord of the Admiralty, passed
through on the west bound aeroplane on the 16th November. He was met at the
aerodrome by 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. .
(x) Mr. B. C. H. Cross, Area Manager, Near East Area, Imperial Airways
Limited, arrived on the 17th January and left on the 20th.
(xi) Mr. M. E. Lombardi (a citizen of the United States of America), a
Director of The Bahrain Petroleum Company, Limited, arrived on the 2nd
March.
(xii) Mr. E. W. Janson, Chairman of the Eastern and General Syndicate,
Limited, arrived on the 2nd March.
(xiii) His Excellency Shaikh Sir Ahmad bin Jabir, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., Ruler
of Kuwait, arrived on the 20th June and left on the 1st July.
(xiv) Shaikh Sultan bin Saqar, Ruler of Sharjah, arrived on the 29th Octo
ber and left on the 1st November.
25. Sa’udi Arabia, — (i) Hasa has been further drained of its resources by
the imposition of a number of forced loans and taxation has reduced the people
to a dreadful state of misery. A number of people have fled to Bahrain,
smuggling their women out dressed as men.