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Coll 30/52(1) 'Persian Gulf. Diaries: Bahrain News and Intelligence Reports' [460r] (921/1077)
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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4.
to a point just south-east of Zakhnuniyah Island. The Flying
Boat then iollowed the coast of Dohat Salwa southwards,
examining on the way from the air Dohat Hamar, which should
provide an emergency harbour sheltered from all winds. After
examining the bay at the southern end of Dohat Salwa and
sounding from a launch, the Flying Boat flew across the
southern end of the ^atar peninsula to Khor al T 0daid, where
a fine almost land-locked sheet of deep water was found,
here protection could be had from all winds, though it would
be very hot in the hot weather, and plenty of room for taking
off. A channel fit for launches led to the sea.
The Flying Boat then flew along the east coast of
Qatar to Dohah, where the night was spent in H.M.S Bideford,
ihe oenior Naval Ofiicer, Persian G-ulf Division, was there
in ix.M.3 Shoreham, but left in the evening.
On the following morning the
Political Agent
A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency.
,
accompanied by Captain 0.Austin Brown and G-roup Captain
n.E.Saul went to Umm al Quhaib (an hour ? s fast motor drive
in the interior;, where the
Political Agent
A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency.
conveyed a message
to Shaikh ^Abdullah bin Qasim al Thani, which was briefly to
the effect that the eastern boundary of Sa f udi Arabia was a
line running south from the bay just south of Zakhnuniyah
Island to latitude 20° North, and that the area east of that,
as far as the line up to which protection had been offered
to him under certain conditions, lay in the British sphere.
After an early lunch the
Political Agent
A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency.
and his
party returned to Dohah, and the
Political Agent
A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency.
left
immediately by Flying Boat for Bahrain.
33. PERSIA .
Reference paragraph No:52(i) of Diary No:6 of 1934
and paragraph No:17/5(i) of Intelligence Report No:2 of 1934.
It was reported on the 10th May that as soon as the Persian
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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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- Coll 30/52(1) 'Persian Gulf. Diaries: Bahrain News and Intelligence Reports'
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- 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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