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Coll 30/52(1) 'Persian Gulf. Diaries: Bahrain News and Intelligence Reports' [165r] (331/1077)
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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Bahrain on the 6th anti left on the 7th November* He was
a guest of the Polities! A^ont f Bahrain*
(ill) Captain A*C* slloway, X*A vy who has been appoint*
eti Assistant Political 4g*nt 9 a:shraln t arrived at Bahrain
on the 6th tfovesab^r end after utklnir ever charge left by
the same boat for the Tracial Coast* The object of U4s
tour ia to aake %h» acqiiaintanoe of the various Ahsikhs
on the ^oost*
176* Cil >
(i) the m&cmr in tlie town is that the colifornia
Arabian. Standard Cll emsmn?' & op? rations in Saadi Are ia
era not pro*ire*eif^ toe we!l f end in feet that a deadlock
has arisen between the Radian Goverment *nd the ompany*
The Tsudian aoveranent are s^parently annoyed by the oca-
iany # « failure to export oil within tho pe led contracted
and by the nonful. iluoent of the obligation that the Com*
papy should invariably employ Saudi /r^bs except where
highly technical skill is .< required* The < CBaipa^y argue
that they are unable to flr4 competent persons of :.k?udi
nationality in cuffioleat numbers^ Uiat they cannot cons*
truct storage t^nks for oil until a jetty has been bulltf
and that they do not see why they aho Id meet the whole
cost of the Jetty wh^n the yevwrauent expect it
to be free ana open for all* It is believed here that
other companies must have mmXm offers to the ^tudain Go
vernment and that the Goverr^eat therefore consider they
are in a good position to Oeftend Uieir full pound of x'lesh
from the California Arabian standard Oil Cmpmy or even
more* tr* Chiller, the Comr>any*d Manager* left on the
Bth November for iyadh to a ee the £ing in thie connection*
(il) Petroleum < onceaaiona Limited have started wortt
ogain in Qatar* A party of two geolo*dtots f one driller
anti a viral as ex|»ert left ^or *iokmb on the nth Kovemb^
to fix sites for oil enti water wells anti to arrai^e for
the erection of scamp to accommodate the person?el which
will be <m^>loyed later* The Ahaikh of Qatar at first
made a good rany difficulties but for the time being at
least mat tar a have been amoethed over anti this winter's
pro»:ra tue slioulti be carried out without obs ruction*
(lii) deference paragraph No* 144(11) of tnmmry No*
16 of 12*37#
tr* Leraitte c ame to Bahrain on the 14th Fcvesber
193? and called on the apolitical Agent* He hae not yet
; succeeded In arlrazii^ ihe Shalidi ox al l-haimh to
terms § but he has again gone off to the Crucial Coast to
casks a final attempt this week*
x?7. imiai-ijaMi.
(i> Xio. 163(1) of Intalll^onc*
^kissmary NO# IS of 193f*
dhaikh ivashld tin Jald retuitied to Bahrain from
' q&ir on the 10th November* He expects to a^end a few
cay* in Bahrain*
(it) hsference paragraph 163(11) of Intslliganca JSun*
mary rio* hi of 1937*
iW-
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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.
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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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