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Coll 30/52(1) 'Persian Gulf. Diaries: Bahrain News and Intelligence Reports' [92r] (185/1077)
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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(ill) I visited Hirwar on th« 18th pwil#
(iv) Khan Sahib Sayac! bdur Ba*E^ f Baaidency Agent 9
Sharjah 9 arrived here on the 26th April*
65 • Local affaire
(!) For the last few daye 9 the town of Vmnama haa been
assuming a feative appearance in preparation for the via it
of King Ibn *aud f who ia expected to arrive on Jay 2nd*
(11)
Kia
A deputy or lieutenant of the governor in Ottoman Iraq, with additional responsibilities as a high-ranking provincial judge.
llighneea the 3heikh f hie sona and brothers wont
to Al Khobar by launch on April ^dth aa the guests of the
lingi and returned on the following day*
(iii) Coo^odore A ’oland, ! , acting roamander*In-^hiaf t
iaet Indies Squadron, arrived in n*lf*3* ^Bideford" and trans
ferred to H*h.s* ^Korfolk**, which arrived on the 13th ^pril
and left on the 16th April*
56 * .acasifll„Uttinl
deference paragraph Ho* 51 of my Intelligence summery
Ho* 8 of 1939*
Having failed to obtain a refuge on the truclal Coast,
certain members of shaikh Mena's party went into the desert
and placed their fate in the hands of ihalkh Mohammad bin All
al Huweldir, Chief of the Beni Kltab tribe. The latter h®e
communicated with shaikh 3e' id bin rraktum, who has replied
that he le perfectly willing for the refugees to stay under
the protection of Shaikh S ohamr ad, provided that the necessary
guarantee for their conduct le given, a nd th«t he ie not
expected to return their properties. He fils© demands a strict
$rms control over Beni Kitab bedouin entering Hibal •
iheikh Mona 1 and Mohamaad bln Kurais are still et
Sharjah, awaiting events.
57. ;> .teorolo, icl
o
Maximum temperature •* 95*5 on the SCth April
Minimum temperature •# 60«l c on the 20th April
Humidity exceeded 70* on four d ye in the fortnight,
the maximum being 82% on the 18th April
It ee^me desirable to state - with reference to para
graph No* 58 of Kuwait ^iery No* 7 of 1939 - that in Bahrain
the commercial community has already turned on its air-cooling
plants* Bo would Government offices have done if Government
offices had them to turn on.
Bahrain, sd/- H. nightman •
The 9th April 1939*
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*
jaifttftfl*
Sd/- J. B. Howes.
Captain,
Assistant Political gent, Bahrein*
(Distribution as usual)
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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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- 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
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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