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Coll 30/52(1) 'Persian Gulf. Diaries: Bahrain News and Intelligence Reports' [6r] (13/1077)
The record is made up of 1 file (535 folios). It was created in 8 Sep 1933-21 Feb 1941. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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137. OATAH
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Snaikh ADd.a^a.ah bin Oasim A'.L Than!
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of Oatar. has left for the
Ruler
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with his heir-apparent Shaikh
Hamad and some seventy members of his family. It is expected
J 18 1oe a7/a y for about two months and his eldest son
Shaikh All is in charge during his absence 3
138 • SAUDI ARABIA
(i; Shaikh Mohammad bin : Isa has recently returned
from his annual hunting expedition m Saudi Arabia. It is
gathered from members of his party that a plot which had as
its object the overthrow of the Saudi regime had been dis
covered. It is said that three important members of the
Cairo where, they mat Amir Abdullah who was then on a visit
f° Egypt. Afte.t this meeting they returned to Mecca and pro
ceeded to hold secret meetings in the course of which they
invited Sharif Hazza-. an influential member of the Sharifian
family and a pro-Saudi to join them. It appears that he was
unwilling to do this and only yielded under threats. However,
having seen their papers and plans he at once proceeded at
midnight to Amir Faisal and reported the matter. Amir Feisal
immediately sent out a police force to arrest the conspirators
and it was only after some shots had been exchanged and three
of them killed that the remainder were arrested. Some of
the police also were injured. It is understood that from
the documents discovered a number of other persons were
found to be implicated in the plot and that the conspirators
were well financed. Some of them were residents of Has a
and orders have been issued for the arrest of them all.
There was a rumour current also that about 3000 persons were
intending to gather at Mecca disguised as pilgrims with the
object of staging a coup d : etat at the time of Amir Abdullah’s
presence on Haj - The above events are being kept very quiet
by the Saudj. Government and it is said that Ibn Saud has
requested foreign powers not to give them publicity as it
might prevent per s o ns i rcm proceeding on pilgrimage and thus
affect the finances of the state-
pilots, said to
cation with the
(yii) It has also been widely reported that some Saudi
were found to be in communi-
alians and to be receiving funds from Bagh-
;0 six in numoe:
4-
dad. They were found to be in possession of illegal wireless
transmitting sets. All are said to have been executed.
139. METEOROLOGICAL
Maximum temperature .. 78.3° on the 13th December
Minimum temperature .. 58.4 C on the 12th December
Humidity exceeded 70% throughout the fortnight,
the maximum being 96% on the 12th December.
Rainfall - nil.
Bahrain.
The 24th December 1940
3d/- R.G. Alban
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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.
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The file contains fortnightly intelligence summaries produced by the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. at Bahrain for the years 1933-40. The reports, marked as secret, were sent to the Government of India, the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. , and numerous British diplomatic, political, and military offices in the Middle East. There are occasional hand-written comments in the margins of the reports.
The reports are divided into short sections that relate to a particular subject. Contained within the file is intelligence on the following topics:
- Shipping
- The movements of British and Foreign subjects, and Arab notables
- Local affairs of Bahrain, as well as regional news from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. , and the wider Middle East
- Economic matters and food supplies
- Bahrain Petroleum Company and other matters related to the oil industry
- Transport accidents
- The Bahrain ruling family
- Tensions between Abu Dhabi and Dubai
- The pearl trade
- Workers' strikes in Bahrain
- Local crime
- The slave trade
- Regional boundary disputes
- The impact of the beginning of the Second World War in Bahrain and local reaction to events in the war
- Weather and meteorological data.
A photograph of Charles Belgrave and the French Naval Officer, Contre Amiral Rivet is contained on folio 388. It was taken when the French Sloop Bougainville visited Bahrain on 14-16 February 1935.
The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (535 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 537; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 3-537; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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- Title
- Coll 30/52(1) 'Persian Gulf. Diaries: Bahrain News and Intelligence Reports'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:3v, 3ar:3av, 4r:387v, 389r:537r, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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