Coll 30/52(3) 'Bahrein Intelligence Summaries 1946' [‎101r] (201/472)

(ii) £ai3flr.tatlon of unde sirable .aliens .
In order to combat the rapid increase in pros-’
titution and the high Incidence of venereal disease in
Bahrain, the Bahrain Government wish to deport a number of
foreign prostitutes and procurers.
(iii) Fish .
The Bahrain Government have asked the Bahrain
Petroleum Company to instruct their contractors not to buy
fish direct from the fishing villages on the coast. They
state that fish is the staple diet of the poor <ahraini and
that the buying of fish direct from the fisher causes
a scar-city of fish in the ilanamah and Muharraq .. -.aars which
are the only two places where fish may be sold.
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Reference paragraph 7 of Intelligence Summary
No. 1.
Certain clauses of the proposed subscribers’
agreement have now been modified and Bahrain merchants have
withdrawn their objections to the new automatic telephone
system. The Bahrain Government have informed Messrs.
Cable and Wireless Limited that there is now no reason for
postponing its inauguration.
23. ZUBARRH.
Reference paragraph 154 of Intelligence Sum
mary No.11 of 1948.
His Highness Shaikh Salman has enquired whether
he may consult legal opinion in the United Kingdom about his
’rights’'in Zubarah 18th-century town located 105 km from Doha. . He has also caused a letter to be
addressed to 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. by the adviser to the.Bahrain
Government in which he has suggested th&t the Shaikh of qatar
should be asked to recognise certain ’private rights’ of the
Shaikh of Bahrain in ^atar which, His Highness alleges, would
not prejudice the. Shaikh of de facto sovereignty
over the Zubarah 18th-century town located 105 km from Doha. area.
24. SLAVERY .
Some months ago a manumitted .slave, Maryam bint
Muhamad, was abducted from Dubai and taken away to qatar by
her captor Falih al ^atari. News was received recently that
she was a patient in the Bahrain Government Hospital where
she had been sent by her captor and was undergoing treatment
for syphilis. The Bahrain Government were asked to in
vestigate and buve now reported that Maryam bint Muhamad has
been discharged from hospital and that she has expressed
a wish to return to ^atar with her 'friend' Falih al qatari,
when he came to call for her. She is being detained by the
Bahrain Govsrnmnnt until the arrival from Dubai of her.mother.
26. ERlIRalN ^ ND..P iiL^ST INE.
His Highness Shaikh Salman has donated one lakh One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees
of rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. to the United Nations Relief Organisation for
Palestine Refugees. This amount is being paid into Barclays
Bank, Cairo, to the account of the United Nations Relief
Organisation for Palestine Refugees.
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