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Coll 30/52(1) 'Persian Gulf. Diaries: Bahrain News and Intelligence Reports' [31r] (63/1077)
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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V 33^-
SECRET
^ 1940 I
"B Ufitfa a-py^ c
No
11 of 1940
Intel w
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.
, Bahrain^
for the period 1st to 15th
June 1940* , vi
csiabqyya*
67. Shipping
fi) T.V
"ir
^California Standard 1 * 6 (Panama) arrived^
here on the 30th May and left on the 1st June 1940 with jl* Z
a cargo of 3354 tons of Diesel Oil and 13,246 tons of *3 Jnf' * * 1«
Fuel Oil for Suez.
(ii) SoS e t, Tarakan u (Dutch) arrived here on the
31st May and left on the 4th June 1940 after discharging
3960 packages for Bahrain and 11 packages for tran
shipment to the mainlando
(iii) S.S. ff Nurjehan M (British) arrived here on the
4th June 1940 and left the same day after discharging^
1152 packages for Bahrain and 100 packages for tranship
ment to the mainland.
(iv) S.S. "Khuzistan” (British) arrived here on the
2nd and left on the 4th June 1940 with 362 empty drums
for Abadan, after discharging 9224 packages for Bahrain
and 2399 packages for transhipment to the mainland.
(v) T.V. n El Segundo n (Panama) arrived here on the
4th and left on the 5th June 1940 with 4508 tons 'of
^ Fuel Oil for Bombay/Karachi.
Cvi) S.S« ,f Washingtonian :f * (American) arrived here
on the 11th and left on the 13th June 1940 after dis
charging 15c442 packages for Bahrain and 260 packages
for transhipment to the mainlando
(vii) S. S. ,5 Chile Maru" (Japanese) arrived here on
the 4th and left on the 5th June 1940 after discharging
412 packages for Bahrain.
(viii) T.V. "Arena 1 * (Norwegian) arrived here on the
^ 4th June 1940 and left on the same day with a cargo of
9060 tons of Kerosene for Suez.
(ix) T.V. "Ketty Brovig" (Norwegian) arrived here
on the 3rd and left on the 4th June 1940 with a cargo
X of 7565 tons of Fuel Oil and 2013 tons of Diesel Oil
for Port Said/Alexandria.
(x) T.V. "Vera" (Norwegian) arrived here on the
y, 10th and left on the 11th June 1940 with a cargo of
6149 tons of Gasoline and 2087 tons of Kerosene for
Australian ports.
68. Movements of British Official s. ^
?i) .1 left for Habbaniyah by air on the 5th June
and returned to Bahrain on th^-llth June. »
(ii) Reference paragraph 58 of my Intelligence
Summary No. 10 of 1940.
Captain R.D. Metcalfe, Publicity Officer.
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
, returned from Cairo on the 8th June.
69/-
REOo. POL. DEPt.
9 . L '49
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.
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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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- 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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