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Coll 30/52(1) 'Persian Gulf. Diaries: Bahrain News and Intelligence Reports' [13r] (27/1077)
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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Ibn Saud is said to have told Shaikh Said that it was but
rumours should be spread by interested persons,
ut he 5 Ibn, Saud, had had dealings with the British for
a very long time and knew them well. He knew that they
o not transgress the rights of others or interfere in
heir internal affairs and have no harmful designs on
other states, and knew too that differences with them could
be settled amicably without any difficulty. “One we
know well is better than one of whom we are doubtful 11 ,
Lbn Saud said to Shaikh Said. "My advice to you and the
people on your side is not to listen to or believe any
rumour about other foreign non-Muslim powers. Such isad:-
xxg rumours are misleading and you should be on your watch
not to accept them ,, .
The same views were given to Shaikh Said by other
members of the Saudi family, particularly by Amir Muhammad
bin Abdur Rahman, Ibn Saud* s brother.
This has had a very good effect on Shaikh Said
and in Dubai generally
120. Meteorological
Maximum temperature .. 99,2° on the 16th October.
Minimum temperature .. 70.6° on the 29th October.
Humidity exceeded 70 % on 14 days, the highest being
96 % on the 18th October.
Bahrain
October 6th, 1940
for
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.
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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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- IOR/L/PS/12/3767
- 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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