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Coll 30/52(1) 'Persian Gulf. Diaries: Bahrain News and Intelligence Reports' [482r] (965/1077)
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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2.
2. Non-ot'ticials .
(i). Mr.E.J.Thompson arrived by air mail on tJie 1st March
to join The Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited.
(ii). Mrs.C.D.Belgrave,Wile of the Financial Adviser to
the Bahrain Government,left (with nurse and child) tor the
United Kingdom by the overland route on the 6th March.
(iii). Mr.R.Lyon of Messrs Zeigler & Company,Bushire,
arrived by slow mail on the bth March and returned to Bushire
on the 11th.
(iv). Mrs.T.C.W.Fowle arrived from Bushire by slow mail
on the 14th March.
39. MOVEMENTS OF FOREIUNERS .
1. Citizens of the United States of America.
(i). His Excellency Paul Knabenshue,Minister Resident of
the United States of America in T Iraq,,arrived by slow mail on
the 6th March,accompanied by his son,Mr.Paul D.Knabenshue,and
Secretary,Mr.J.S.Moose. He left for Muscat on the 14th.
(li). Mrs.A.R.Morris,Vale ox an employee of The Bahrain
Petroleum Company Limited,arrived on the bth March.
(iii). Messrs M.H.Bush and F.S.Stone arrived on the 8th
March to join The Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited.
(iv). Reference paragraph No:22-l(iii) of Diary No:3 of
1934. Doctor L.P.Dame returned from Qatar on the 9th March.
(v). Doctor W.W.Thoms of the Mason Memorial Hospital,
Bahrain,left for Qatar on the 14th March.
(vi). Mrs.A.F.Bush,Wife of an employee of The Bahrain
Petroleum Company Limited,arrived by air mail on the Ibth March
40. TRAD E .
The bad quality of Japanese goods seems gradually to be
becoming a by-word among the people. A woman came to the
Hospital recently for treatment for chest trouble and
explained that her chest was "Japan! !f I At the same time prices
(3).
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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