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Coll 30/52(1) 'Persian Gulf. Diaries: Bahrain News and Intelligence Reports' [287r] (575/1077)
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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(aii) It is reported that Mahamiaad Aqil
Khun. 1 i (who does a certain amount of business for
Bin Sa’ud and at one time tried to pose as his Agent)
has also been discharged and that »Abdur Rah nan Farsi
arrived from Rasa on the 15th April to succeed him.
49. BAHRAIN .
(i) Some boys, who were playing in a water
channel at Shakhura village, chanced upon a concealed
hoard of gold coins, which tumbled out of an hole in
the bank on the site of an old house. The populace
rushed to the scene and many coins were found. A
number have been recovered and appear to be Turkish
coins of the time of Sultan f Abdul Hamid bin Ahmed
(A.H. 1187).
One coin was, however, a Venetian gold
ducat of A.D. 1280-89.
(ii) The Muliarram Procession passed off
auietly. The police arrangements were excellent and
the Bahrain Petroleum Company took great pains to see
that their employees, who watched in large numbers,
were in seats reserved for them well before the
appointed time and were warned to do nothing which
might cause excitement.
(ill) Shaikh Baqir bin Ahmad al tAsfur
Ifenamah has been appointed as third Qadhi on the
Shi 1 ah Shara 1 Court.
50. OIL.
C alifornia Arabian Stand ar d Oil Company .
The California Arabian Standard Oil
Company have inported a launch with two 375 H.P.
Liberty engines for their work between Bahrain and the
mainland. She is said to be able to do over 40
knots/
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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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- Open Government Licence