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Coll 30/52(1) 'Persian Gulf. Diaries: Bahrain News and Intelligence Reports' [26r] (53/1077)
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
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No .13 of 1940.
Intallia^nce Summary of
the ydxjWical/ Agent, Bahrain,
ior one period 1st to 15th
July 1940.
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77. Shipping
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(i) S.S. “Yamahuzi Maru” (Japanese) arrived^here
on the 3rd July and left on the 4th July 1940 after
discharging 633 packages for Bahrain.
(ii) S.S. ,! Kamogawa Maru ,r (Japanese) arrived here
on the 5th Julyand left on the 7 th July 1940 after
discharging 4035 packages for Bahrain, with a cargo of
3 cases Ghee, and dates for Kobe, Japan.
(iii) TV M E 1 Segundo 11 ' (Panama) arrived here on the
2nd July and left on the 3rd July 1940 with a cargo of
4002 tons of Fuel Oil for Singapore*
(iv) TV ,f Arena ,! (Norwegian) arrived here on the
12th July and left the same day with a cargo of 2461
tons of Kerosene oil and 2256 tons of Gasoline for
Karachi, and 3904 tons of Kerosene and 621 tons of Gas
oline for Bombay.
(v) S.S. "Tosari" (Dutch) arrived here on the 13th
July and left on the 14th July 1940 with a cargo of 110
packages of personal effects and empty gas cylinders for
San Francisco, Los Angeles and Sumatra, after discharg
ing 3125 packages for Bahrain and 100 packages for tran
shipment to the mainland.
(vi) TV "Bahrein” (Panama) arrived here on the 13th
and left on the 15th July 1940 with a cargo of 4701
tons Kerosene oil and 4254 tons Gasoline for Karachi*
78. Movements of Briti s h Official s
(i) Mr. R.I.Hallows, Assistant
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, left for India on recess on the 7 th July 1940.
(ii) Reference paragraph 74 (ii) of my Intelligence
Summary No.12 of 1940.
Major A.C.Byard, M.B.E., Defence Officer, Per
sian Gulf, returned from India by air on the 12th July
1940.
79. British Interests .
Mr. C.R.L.Adrian-Vallance, Director of Educa
tion, Bahrain Government, left on a trip to Iraq and
Palestine on the 6 th July 1940.
80. Local Affairs .
(i) Reference paragraph 70(ii) of my Intelligence
Summary No. 11 of 1940.
News has been received that Shaikh Mohammad
bin ’Isa has arrived in Alexandria. It is not yet
known how he was transported there from Malta.
(ii) Reference the concluding sentence of paragraph
75(c) of my Summary No.12 of 1940»
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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.
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- 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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- front, front-i, 2r:3v, 3ar:3av, 4r:387v, 389r:537r, back-i, back
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