"ملف 8/16 تقارير استخباراتية بشأن البحرين" [و‎‎١‎٠‎٠] (٤٣٢/١٩٩)

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Steps have been taken uo reduce to the absolute
miniinuai the export of gold from Bdirsin to non-Bmpire
countrieso Bxporus of silver will also be restricted in
future to the requirements of bona fide transactions*^
. , dO??? 0 ? 8 in the flourishing bazaar of Dubai (Trucial
Coasu; still hold considerable stocks of Japese piece-
goods <> As they are disposed of they are being replace^
by piece-goods of Indian manufacture. In one shoo a number
oi Italian blankets were seen. Th-y were said to"have
been imported about three years ago*
• Broadcasting
c^-u i / T ' Ll ? e a Py rsc i3' l: 'i v e references on the London radio to
pnaikii Hamad caused favourable com:ent among all classes
m Bahrain, and particularly among the Khalifah family*
rini } e death of Shaikh Hamad was announced on the •
radio from Home* Tbe broadcaster added • "It will be
remembered thao Bahrain is the place whose oil refin a rv
was destroyed by Italian aircraft 13 months ago"! This
comment has been the cause of much amusement locally*
„ B ? i F a f n 5nd along the Trucial Coast the broad-
casts from Berlin in Arabic by Yunis Bahri are regarded
• 1 ^^ 0S1 i'+ V3 ^^taste. The language which he uses, learnt
in the gutters of Iraq, offends the ears of Arabs on the
• Moreover, details of his disreputable past
a eszowell-known that his opinions are discredited ev a n
before he utters them*
27. Sau di Ar abia*
, . Ahmad bin Khalaf, a leading merchant of Abu Dhabi
if} 0 also related to the Shaikh of that place, visited
Riyadh on his return from the Haj • He was greatly im
pressed by Ibn Saud f s unequivocal support of the British
cause. Ibn Saud's^sympathy for the British was expressed
both in public and in private*
, Abdul Aziz Qosaibi, a leading merchant of Bahrain,
has recently returned from Biyadh. He brought with him
one s-yoy Ox another attempted assassination of Ibn 3aud.
His sLory is tnat in the middle of February three Yemenis
came to Riyadh, each vith several hundred gold sovereigns,
with this money they bribed one of Ibn Saud*s slaves to
introduce them as religious mendicants on one of the
occasions when Ibn Baud would himself distribute alms,
ine conspirators* plans were, however, overheard by the
slave s mother-in-law, who reported the matter to Ibn
* x V 70 "kbree demands and the slave were arrested
ana a bomb was found in their possession* The slave
was executed and^the two Yemanis were sent under a strong
guard 00 the Hedjaz where lurther enquiries wer* 3 to be
made*
opin ion *
(i) Arabs on the Trucial Coast find it difficult to
understand the succes es of the Japanese whom they regard
cto a despicable race. Indeed, they consider Japan r s entry
into a.war between major powers such as Britain end Germany
uo be iqjpudent - as though pygmies were to intervene in a
gigantomachy.
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