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Coll 30/52(1) 'Persian Gulf. Diaries: Bahrain News and Intelligence Reports' [530r] (1061/1077)
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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transport an •anny’ to 'ASIR to relieve some of his beleaguered
troops there*
(e). The King has warned all his , bedu f divers and instructed
^them to go to different places,some to near the KUWAIT neutral zone
border.
359.
TRUCIAL COAST
A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
*
(a). On the 25th August a report was received that SULTAN bin
QAQ£t, Shaikh of SHARJAH,intended proceeding to HAS AL KHAIMAH to see
the Shaikh,SULTAN bin SALIM,with a view to enlisting his support in
the event of hostilities with the Shaikh of AJMAN. n
The trouble between the two Shaikhs is in connection with certain
outstanding claims by the people of AJMAN against the people of HAIRA
and to the repeated attempts of the Shaikh of AJMAN to asassinate
SHAIKH ABDUL RAHMAN of HAIRA - a protege of the Shaikh of SHARJAH.
(b}. SULTAN bin SALIM,Shaikh of RAS AL KHAIMAH,proceeded to the
interior on the 24th August,accompanied by ABDULLAH bin AHMAD bin
SULTAN,to collect ’zakat’ (tithes) on dates from the villagers of
DHIAD on behalf of Shaikh KHALID bin AHMAD* He returned to RAS AL
KHAIMAH on the 28th.
(c). On the 25th August Shaikh KHALI RAH bin ZAYID, uncle of the
Shaikh of ABU DHABI,presented a Ford car to AHMAD bin RASHID,Shaikh
of UMM AL C^AIWAIN. The car was originally presented to Shaikh
KHALIFAH bin ZAYID by the present SHAIKH of BAHRAIN.
360. Q, A T A R .
Shaikh ABDULLAH BIN QASIM AL THANI,Ruler of q^AR,who had received
a summons sometime ago from BIN SA’UD to meet him, left for HOFFUF on
the 26th August,en route to RIYADH. He was accompanied by his brother,
MUHAMMAD,and by his second son,HAMAD* His eldest son,HASAN,has been
left in charge at DOHAH.
The journey to HOFFUF was to be done on camels and thence to
RIYADH in cars placed at Shaikh ABDULLAH*S disposal by the King.
361. PEARLING .
(a). Reference Paragraph 348(h) of Diary No:15 of 1933. It is
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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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