Coll 30/52(3) 'Bahrein Intelligence Summaries 1946' [‎17r] (33/472)

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(iii).....
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^ i) Gold Smuggling;
a Mr. lay '.or
5 and whose .jelnes
merchant ougges:ed to
carry gold (about 3 ..bs. a
thf, fact that ° h ® ck ." 8S P ut on gold smuggling to India by
car"-' ed t i y + 0n u- 0:f the smu gglers' boatman who
1 certain Indian S^ d h t 0 t h ; S l£,gs wcs ca «ght and convicted
- ceruain Indian merchant tiien got hold of a
who works in Gray Mackenzie & Co., Ltd
it rs to visit the B.I. ships. The
Mr. Taylor that if he agreed to
fo" doinfso the Mr hi T®,ll W ? Uld 1® P sld .Rs. 1,000/- a month
,, . * Mr. Tailor cugreed to this su cp p'Qstion hut t --
0 T? ed ^ le Mana g er °1 Messrs. Gray, Mackenzie & Co T td
who then informed the Bahrain Government 3
(iii) Education .
some of'thoiBl 8ai y E m Government are having trouble with
souhr nf yachers. They are probably the
prls aho,l th a US art i ol ° s ^ich appeared in the igyotian
1 r ^ bs Qbout tne adviser to ihe Bahrain Government.
en
(iv) Thie ving .
Cl,thin,- ...ii-i Tb f re be f n nn epidemic of telephone wire
o rirj “.f” chBvv, 1 t laS u dl f rupt f d the communication between Manamah
and cne shaikh’s headnuarte^s at Raafa ^ ^ n. ^
in order
catch.
headquarte
to make fish traps
t Raafa. The wire
The thieves are dif;
stolen
icult to
(v) Morals
. , T Highness the Shaikh was impressed during hi*
Ikff 0 ^ |hG fact that prostitutes are not seen ir
thc,t town while in Bahrain they advertise their presence
blatantly, strut about unveiled and even smoke in the streets,
he ^s therefore trying to organise another ’’purity" canroaign/
the large ^number of foreign prostitutes deiortcd
by cne PoliticaJ. Agent in May last have been rapidly ^i]
by new recruits who visit tin island with men who p-atenc \c
be their husbands,
(vi) Anti-J ewi sh faeiing.
, There has been some recrudescence of
feeling recently, of which one evidence was m^l'
against a Jewish merchant named Naji Murad, hi
brother was beaten sc erely in school and he himself had co
endure rather stupid telephone calls from people threatening
to kill him.
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^1-^ Britis h iId TT iser,
Reference paragraph 166 (i) of Summary No.20.
It now appears that Mr. Deardon may not take
up :he post in Qatar.
• (1 i) Guar an tin c ar .ran ge ment s.
11}b Chief Quarantine Medical Officer, Per rinn
Gulf,^is looking into the possibilities of arranging with
the Oil Gompany doctors for looking after the ou rantine
services in Qatar.