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Coll 30/52(1) 'Persian Gulf. Diaries: Bahrain News and Intelligence Reports' [107r] (215/1077)
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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Intelligence Nummary of the
Political Ag*nt % Bahrain, for
the period i 6 th to 31at lecem^
1938. 6^<5MT'
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(i) Tankship ^Britieh Loyalty^arrived here on the 17th
cargo of 11,221 tons
No. 1 of 1939
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and left on the 18th
of B-S49 Fuel Oil. ,
OeceiBhwr 1938 with a
(li) Tankahip *Ketty Jlrovig** (Norwegian) arrived here on
the 20th and left on the 21et December 1938 with a cargo of
6173 tone of B-849 Fuel Cil and 4022 tone of 9*291 Jieeel Oil.
(111)3.3. "Markon* (Dutch) arrived here on the 20th and
left on the 22nd December 1938 with a cargo of 3 packages Teak
ood, after discharging 3458 packages for Bahrain and 614 packs*
gas for transhlpmcnt to the mainland.
(lv) Tankship ^tew Zealand ' (Norwegian) arrived here on the
23rd and left on the 24th December 1938 wit i a cargo of 8333
tona of '-350 Gasoline ^'hite, 1596 tons of B*451 Duoer Bower
Kerosene, 2029 tons of b- 400 First Grads kerosene, and 1372
tons of B*811 Diesel Gas Oil.
(v) Tankship "ihwis Maersk" (Danish) arrived here on the
26th and laft on the 27tn December 1938 with a cargo of 4688
tona of ?w891 Diesel Oil and 8675 tons of B*849 Fusl Oil.
(vi) 3.S. 'Marlenfels* (German) arrived hare on the 26th
and left on the 29th December 1938 after discharging 4228 packa
ges for Bahrain and 5000 packages for transhipment to the main
land.
(vii) Tankship "Bydhsn" (Norwegian) arrived here on the
25th and left on the 26th December 1938 with a cargo of 12061
tons of B*849 Fuel Oil.
(viii) 3.3.” Khuslstan" (British) arrived here on the 28th
December 1938 and left the same day wit i a cargo of 94 bundles
of empty tins and 58 empty drums, after discharging 4000 packs*
ges for Bahrain and 2616 packages for transhipment to the raainl*
(lx) S.D."Mental Mars" (Japanese) arrived here on the 31st
Decs ber 1938 and left the same day after discharging 262 packs*
ges for Bahrain.
, ..wmstialg
Reference paragraph 133 of my Intelligence Summary No. 20
of 1938.
Captain J.B* Howes, Assistant
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,
returned to Bahrain on the 20th >ecem *er 1938 by Imperial Airways,
3.
Kajor rank olmes, rapraaentntive of Petroleum oncessioni
Limited, arrived here on the 18th December 1938.
4. irwava
Landplanes of the K.L.tt. (Dutch) Airlines landed here on
the 20th and 24th December 1938 on their way to Batavia. The
reason given for the diversion of their course via Bahrain was
that their regular route across Iran was unserviceable due to
foggy weather and rain.
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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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