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Coll 30/52(1) 'Persian Gulf. Diaries: Bahrain News and Intelligence Reports' [60r] (121/1077)
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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1940 Intelligence Su.jnar.y of the
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for the period 16th to 31st
December 1939,
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(1) 3,3, "ihuzistan” (British) arrived here
on the l5th December and left on the 16th December
1939 with a cargo of 503 bundles of empty drums-,-*
after discharging 4,764 packages for Bahrain and
3j700 packages for transhipment to the mainland.
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••-(ii) 3,3. M .D jambi n (Dutch) arrived here on
the 20th December and left on the 21st December 1939
wiph a cargo of 41 nongs empty cylinders, after dis
charging 2,008 packages for Bahrain and 2,706 pack
ages for transhipment to the mainland,
(iii) 3, 3,''Puerpo hican" (U.3.A.) arrived here
on the 20th December and left on the 20th December
1939 with no cargo after discharging 490 packages
for Bahrain and 12 packages for transhipment to the
mainland,
(iv) T.V, "JTane Maersk” (Danish) arrived here
on the 20th December and left on the 21st December
1939, with a cargo of 1,'^97 tons Diesel Oil, 6,891
tons Fuel Oil and 3,571 tons Fuel Oil.
(V) -n
T,V„ M 7ase Naersk (Danish) arrived here
on the 20th December and left on the 21st December
1939, with 4,797 tons Diesel Oil and 4,644 tons Fuel
Oil,
(vi)T.V,"Bramora" (Norwegian) arrived here
on the 24th December and left on the 24th December
1939 after taking a cargo of 7,606 tons I.otor spirit
and 1,201 tons Kerosene,
(vii) T.V,’’Bandanger" (Norwegian) arrived here
on the 26th December and left on the 27th December
1939 with a cargo of 10,804 tons Gasolene, 2,739
tons Kerosene and 811 tons Diesel Oil.
(viii) 3,3, M Bidevind" (Norwegian) arrived here
on the 29th December 1939 and left on the 1st January
1940 after discharging 8,738 packages for Bahrain,
130. Movements of British Officials ,
(i) Lieutenant Commander H,D. Lynne, H.N.
■who has. been.appointed Naval Staff Officer (Intelli
gence) Bahrain., with effect from the 1st January
1940, arrived here on the 20th December 1939.
(ii). Lieutenant H.D.H.Ranee left on the 31st
December for Karachi,
REC». POL. DEPt.
W JAN1940
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.
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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.
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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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