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Coll 30/52(1) 'Persian Gulf. Diaries: Bahrain News and Intelligence Reports' [382r] (765/1077)
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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5.
of iron from the Island of Abu TT, asa v as signed bet 'ea ;
Shaikh of Shar.iah and the G 0 lden Valley Ochre and Oxide Company
Limited on the 9th March.
(b)♦ On the 7th March a Persian launch with customs
officials on board visited Abu Musa Island. The launch was
not flying a flag. The occupants of the launch informed
Mr. Barnett, the representative of the Golden Valley Ochre
and Oxide Company limited, who was working on the Island, that
they were merchants and were on their way to Dibai from Longah,
and asked him if they could be of any assists nee.
Mr. Barnett entrusted them with a letter for despatch
by air mail to his firm through Mhan Sahib Husain bin Hasan of
Sharjah. The letter is said to have contained information
concerning the working of the Company under the Concession
agreement and was never received by Khan Sahib Husain.
On the 14th *ferch the Captain of a local
dhow
A term adopted by British officials to refer to local sailing vessels in the western Indian Ocean.
, which
had been hired by Mr. Barnett, proceeded to Bandar Abbas and
there recognised the director c ustoms and another Inspector
as being the occupants of the launch that visited Abu Musa
Island on the 7th March. The Director of D us toms when told
by the Captain of the
dhow
A term adopted by British officials to refer to local sailing vessels in the western Indian Ocean.
that the Shaikh of Sharjah had
given permission for the working of the oxide mines at Abu
Hisa, is reported to have said that he would see the Shaikh
about it as Abu Musa Island was Persian territory!
2. HAS AL KHAIMAH .
Reference paragraph No:21/l(c) of Intelligence Report
No:5 of 19.35. On the 19th March the Shaikh of Has al Khaimah
was warned by the honourable 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.
that if he did not replace his flagstaff and
flag on Tunb Island within ten days from the date of the
receipt of the warning by him, the Shaikh of Sharjah (who is
the senior member of the Joasimi tribe) would be allowed to
/place
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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.
- 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
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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