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Coll 30/52(1) 'Persian Gulf. Diaries: Bahrain News and Intelligence Reports' [43r] (87/1077)
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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(iii) Reference paragraph 85 of Unseat Intelligence
Summary No* 7 of 1340.
Shaikh Isa bin Saleh al Harthi and his son Shaikh
Ibrahim arrived here on the 7th April* Shaikh Isa first
accommodated in His Highness* Palace in Manama but is nov. in
the American Mission Hospital*
41.
Trucial Coast
A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
*
(i) Reference paragraph 36 of my Intelligence ounmary
No. 6 of 1940.
The conduct of the peace between Duoai ana Sharjali
has involved everyone in far* greater activity than did the
| conduct of the war, and all parties have maintained their
f high reputation for double-crossing and cowardice. The Shaikh
of Sharjah is now anxious again to get rid of Shaikh Mana
but is afraid to tell him so to his face $ Shaikh Mana
would like to leave but is insistent on obtaining a guaranteed
allowance from the Shaikh of Dubai* At the moment he is at
Abu Dhabi having been taken there in a Sharjah launch the
pilot of which had secret orders to abandon him at Abu Dhabi
and to return at once to Sharjah.
The following is a typical story of the
Trucial Coast
A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
.
On the 22nd March the Shaikh of Sharjah met the Shaikh of Dubai
and said that he proposed to send his Secretary to Dubai
for a friendly discussion of future action. That night
the Secretary arrived in Dubai with no message of importance
but said that he had a tin of nails in a house in Dubai which
he would like to take back to Sharjah. Would the Shaikh of
Dubai give him a permit to take it without its being subjected
to the usual examination ? Shaikh Said gave him the permit
but at the same time sent one of his men to stop the Secretary
on the outskirts of Daira, to ignore the permit and to search
the tin. This was done and it was found to contain a few nails
on the top and four hundred rounds of ammunition below.
(ii) A
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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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