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Coll 30/52(1) 'Persian Gulf. Diaries: Bahrain News and Intelligence Reports' [536r] (1073/1077)
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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(6)
5.
HAL3HIYAH. Believing tlieir story BAIIMAH did so,accompanied
by 25 men from the AWAMIK tribe. On reaching HAMRIYAH he was
asked to enter the fort but feeling suspicious he would not
do so. HUMAID*S fidawis and retainers in the fort thereupon
opened fire on RAKMAH and his party as they tried to escape
and in the firing one of BAHMAH’S beduins was wounded in the
hand.
(c). Three fidawis of the SHAIKH OP SHARJAH,who were
posted near a watering place at BARAJ,decamped on the 13th
August with four rifles and five hundred rounds of ammunition^
which were stored at BARAJ• On receipt of the news the SHAIKH
sent his brother,MUHALtbiAD bin SAQT*,after them but he was unable
to trace them. It appears that the wages of the three fidawis
were five months in arrears and as they found they could get
nothing but promises from the SHAIKH they decamped with the
rifles and ammunition.
348. H3ARLIHG .
(a) . In Para 268 of Diary No:ll of 1933 it was rumoured
that Mr.GAHDMAL GASHIHAL,a Bombay Pearl Merchant,had gone
bankrupt. This appears to have been incorrect and may have
been due to one or two drafts of Arab merchants having become
a day or so overdue. Mr• GAHDHAL GASHIMAL is now expected to
arrive in Bahrain any day.
(b) . Prices in BAHRAIN are said to be better but it is
said that the catch and quality of the pearls are very poor.
The deficiency in the catch may be due to the high winds which
blew all through the summer and which effectively hindered
diving.
(c) . The quality of the pearls found off DIBAI are said
to be very good,but ibices have not been as good as those
prevailing in BAHRAIN.
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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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- 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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