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(ii)/
controlling the gas which is highly poisonous. Women and
children have been evacuated to Bahrain.
79. Bahrain .
1# Little effective progress having been made in Bahrain
for the control of malaria since li&jov Afridi* s final report was
received, 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. requested the Bahrain Government
to appoint a Coramivtee to accelerate matters.
The first meeting of this Committee was held on the 11th
July, 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. presiding, at which a definite programme
of work was accepted. This programme includes
(i) The preparation of a project to provide a piped supply
for Manamah Town, thus enabling the numberless shallow wells in
the Tov/n to be filled in
(ii) The construction of a hatchary for larvicidal fish to
be used in these shallow wells pending their elimination
(iii) Experiments in vertical drainage for stagnant water
(iv) Measures for ensuring the proper maintenance of
irrigation ditches arid drains in gardens (vd.th proposed penal
provisions)
(v) Preparation of large-scale contoured maps for control
work
(vi) Propaganda schemes.
It noY* remains to ensure that the programme is
carried out.
2. An allied problem, which has given much cause for
anxiety to the Political /gent and the Adviser le tei£ 5 is the
indiscriminate artesian-well drilling and the appaling water
wastage in which everyone joins merrily at present on the theory
that ^enshallah 11 there will always be plenty of water. Attempts
are now being made to break down this comfortable but improvident
attitude the danger of which is Sufficiently evident from the
serious decline of the static head almost everywhere, and a letter
has been wirtten b^ the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. to IUs Highness the
Shaikh urging him to take effective steps for control.
The A1 Khalifah being the v.crst offenders in this
respect a difficult period lies ahead.
80. Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. .
(i) Pieference paragraph 73(i) of my Intelligence Summary
No. 12 of 1939.
Negotiations have been proceeding durin| the fortnight
for Shaikh Mans and the majortiy of his party to find a permanert
home at Hamasah in the Baraimi Oasis, as the iqs of the A1 Bu
Shalmis Shaikh Rashid bin Hamad. After the inevitable maze of
duplicity, suspicion and intrigue had been duly traversed, the
requisite pledges have been signed. Shaikh Mana and his party
are now visiting Sharjah — under the protection of the brothers
of the Al Bu Shamis Shaikh and of the Shaikh of Abu Dhabi, and
with the consent of Shaikh Said of Dubai — to arrange about the
removal of their women folk and the disposal of their property.
It is a point of interest, indicating the dominant
position held by Abu Dhabi in the Baraimi area, that the Al Bu
( shamis first obtained the approval of the Shaikh of r bu Dhabi
I before agreeing to accept the Mana party at Hamasah.