'File 2/9 Anti-British propaganda' [‎241r] (486/748)

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L’ ORIENT ARABE
AGENCE DE PRESSE
39, RUE SOLI MAN PACHA
TELEPHONE 56350
LE CAIRE
jSf ^ MAL NAHARn Beirut. 28.1.39
The following article hy a Basrah corres
pondent appeared in the M A1 Nahar" of Beirut
in its issue of January 28th. It was entitled:
M Bahrain under the British whip”
H The situation is getting worse and worse
in Bahrain. The British authorities are taking
a very severe attitude towards the population.
The mail, telegrams and telephone calls are
censured. Any newspaper daring to comment on
the situation is forbidden in the Islands which
an evil fate has placed under British rule.
As to the Amir, he is not allowed to take a
single move withput the British councellor's
permission. The latter is showing the utmost
severity in the trial of the nationalists and
political prisonners. He seems anxious to equal
in cruelty his Palestine colleagues. Lately,
one of the political prisoner died at the Citadel
as a consequence of the violences of the police.
But the Britishers may well be as tyrannic as
they want the nationalists will nevertheless
fight to the end for the realization of their
rightful claims. It is really regrattable
that an Arab from Bahrain should help the
Britishers in their assassination of the
spitit of freedom and that he should take
advantage of his position as Director of
Education to propagate anti-national ideas
among the students. He is also responsible
for the backwardness of Education in
Bahrain and is generally knwon as a spy. n