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Coll 30/52(1) 'Persian Gulf. Diaries: Bahrain News and Intelligence Reports' [21r] (43/1077)
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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SECRET
No.16 of 1940
FI LE COP Y pe
P.Z.
Intell
the Poiiti
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to 31st
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.gerice Summary
93. Shj-p-ping
(i) S.S."Steel Hanger" (U.SoA.) arrived here on
the 20th August and left on the 21st August 1940
after discharging 5520 packages for Bahrain and
packages for transhipment to the mainland.
(ii) T.V. "Elsa" (Norwegian) arrived here on the
19th August and left on the 21st August with a cargo
of 5514 tons of Gasoline and 2104 tons of Ethyl
Gasoline, for Australian ports.
(iii) S.S. "Mantai Maru" (Japanese) arrived here
on the 27th August and left the same day after dis
charging 126 packages for Bahrain.
(iv) S.S."Silver Beech" (British) arrived here on
the 22nd August, discharged 12,003 packages for
Bahrain and 72 packages for transhipment to the
mainland and left on the 26th August 1940 with a
cargo of 27 nongs Cylinders and 11 packages personal
effects for Sanfrancisco and Los Angeles.
93. Movements of British Of ficials
(a) Lieutenant Colonel E» F. E. Armstrong, I.A.,
passed through Bahrain en route for Egypt on the
Westbound flying boat of the 22nd August 1940
(b) Squadron Leader Coates, Air Liaison Officer,
Bahrain, arrived here from Basra by boat on the 27th
August 1940.
94* Local Affairs
The evacuation of Somaliland has had a sur
prisingly slight effect on local people, due, pro
bably, to the intense hatred and distrust they have
for the Italians.
The failure of German air attacks on England
has impressed all sections«
95. Meteorological
Maximum temperature was 104.4 on the 17th August
Minimum temperature was 81.2 on the 28th August.
Humidity exceeded 70% on 15 days, the highest being
94% on the 19th August.
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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- 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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