Coll 30/52(1) 'Persian Gulf. Diaries: Bahrain News and Intelligence Reports' [‎144r] (289/1077)

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ntelligence Summary of the
olitical Agent, Bahrain, for
»he period 16th to 30th April —
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(i) Tankship Emma Maersk (Danish) arrived here on the
loth and left on the 16th April 1938 with a cargo of 5812
tons of Diesel Oil and 7664 tons of Fuel Oil.
(ii) Tankship British Officer (British) arrived here on
the 19th April 1938 and left the same day with a cargo of
9800 tons of B-410 second grade Kerosene.
(iii) S.S. Trifels (German) arrived here on the 17th and
left on the 18th April 1938 after discharging 4549 packages
for Bahrain.
(iv) S.S. Khuzistan (British) arrived here on the 18th
April 1938 and left the same d ay with a cargo of 182 packages
Empties after discharging 5101 packages for Bahrain and 350
packages for transhipment to the mainland.
(v) S.S. Khuzistan (British) arrived here on the 26th
April 1938 and left the same day with 46 packages Nissen Huts.
(vi) S.S. Hoegh Silver Star (Dutch) arrived here on the
25th and left on the 27th April 1938 after discharging 5569
packages for Bahrain anst 1411 packages for transhipment to
the mainland.
(vii) Tankship British Aviator (British) arrived here
on the 27th and left on the 28th April 1938 with a cargo of
4550 tons of Fuel Oil.
(viii) Tankship South Africa (Norwegian) arrived here
on the 29th and left on the 30th April 1938 with a cargo of
12,700 tons of Gasoline.
Movements of British Officials.
Nil.
Local Affairs.
(i) Three nakhudas of dhows have recently been arrested
and heavily fined for attempting to bring indigent foreigners
without passports into Bahrain. At the s ame time an ectensive
round-up was made in the bazaars of Persians and Qatifis v/ho
have been found here without passports and without any osten
sible means of livelihood. Some 500 persons were detained
for examination and though many of these were subsequently
released, the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. Court is now extremely busy dealing with
the balance under King 1 s Begulation No. 2 of 1937.
It is hoped that these operations, particularly the
heavy fines on the nakhudas, will cause some considerable
diminution in the number of indigent foreigners landing with
out permission in Bahrain.
(ii) The annual "looting" expeditions by notables from
the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. , who come here with presents of a few camels
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