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Coll 30/52(1) 'Persian Gulf. Diaries: Bahrain News and Intelligence Reports' [162r] (325/1077)
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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(iii)/.
ecret.
179. Shipping.
No* 21 o! 1
(i) t>*S*inienfels (Gorman) arrived here on the 15th
left on the 17th November 1937 after landing 17442
packages for Bahrain and 306 package® for transhipment
to the mainland*
(ii) 3. $• He inf els (German) arrived here on the 18th
and left on the 19th November 1937 after discharging 7481
packages for Bahrain and 19 packages for transhipment to
the mainland*
(iii) M.3* Jhohei Maru (Japanese) came here on the
21st and left on the 22nd November 1937 after landing
6743 packages for Bahrain*
(iv) 3*3.Tuscan!a (Italian) arrived here on the 19th
and left on the 20th November 1937 with a cargo of 10000
tons of Crude Oil*
(v) Tankshlp Aase Maerek (Danish) came here on the
22nd and left on the 23rd November 1937 with a cargo of
9300 tons of Fuel and Diesel Oil*
(vi5 Tankship Clella Campanells (Italian) arrived
here on the 23rd and took away on the 24th November 1937
a cargo of 4460 tens of Diesel Oil*
(vii) M.V.Djambi (Brlxish) came here on the 23rd and
left on the 24th November after discharging 1427 packa
ges for Bahrain*
(viii) Tankship Anglo Norse (British) came here on
the 25th and left on the 26th November with a cargo of
8726 tons of Fuel Oil*
(lx) 3*3«Khuzistan (British) arrived here on the
26th November and left the same day after landing a car
go of 228 packages for Bahrain*
130. liovemeota of 3ritlah Official*.
(i) The Honourable Hr. G.X.Caroe,C.I*E.,I.C.3.»
Officiating
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.
in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
, acco*
panled by his Confidential Assistant arrived at Bahrain
from Bushire on the 21st November 1937*
(li) Reference paragraph No* 135(i) of Intelligence
nummary No. 15 of 1937.
The Honourable Lieutenant-Colonel sir Irenehard
Fowle, K.C.I.K., arrived at Bahrain by air on the
22nd November and re-assumed charge of the office of 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.
in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
on the 23rd Novem
ber 1937. iir Trenchard Fowle then left Bahrain on the
30th November in H.l .S.^Fowey" on a tour down the Trucial
Coast* . .■>**
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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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- Title
- 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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