"ملف 8/16 تقارير استخباراتية بشأن البحرين" [و‎‎١‎٥‎٠] (٤٣٢/٢٩٩)

SECRET.
Intelligence Summary of tne
Political Agent, Bahrain, for 'j;
No.13 of 1942. the period 1st to 15th JUly
!942 o
128. Shippin g.
See Appendix to this Summary.
129. Movements of Officials .
The Political Agent left Bahrain for Qatar in the
early morning of July 2nd and returned in the afternoon of
July 4th.
130. Visitors .
(i) Sir Edward Benthall, Colonel Reynolds and Major C.A.G.
Savidge arrived in Bahrain on July 10th and stayed n igh
at the Agency. They left for India the following day.
(ii) On July 11th Sir Jeremy Raisman and Sir Theodore
• Gregory passed through Bahrain on the Westbound flying boa .
(iii) During the period under report a number of military
and R.A.F. officers visited Bahrain.
131. Roval Air Force .
The Shaikh- of Qatar has given his verbal, assent-to
the location on the Qatar coast of a number of wireless obser
vation units. The Political Agent declined to entertain the
Shaikh’s suggestion that the R.A.F. personnel manning these
-_pa»t& .shauld wear Arab dress.
132. Defence .
This island is not yet an
the period under report there were
to the strength of its defences.
armed ^fortress, but during
further welcome additions
Military dispositions have been separately reported.
133. Economic
f-H Food Supplies. Supplies of wheat-flour, sufficients^
to meet current rl^Tirements, have now been received in Bahrain,
and there is at the moment no shortage of any essen i..
stuffs. The picking of the date crop is beginning.
(ii) War Allowances . On the 5th July the Bahrain Govern-
ment announced the'grant of a special "’.Jar A P owa ^®.
their employees in receipt of monthly pay not exceedi -<? 3
»_ + , u Q q! i p has been granted because of the rise in
fo 8 l of It .ill not bo paid to dov.rnmmt
servants, such as the police, who 1 re ° el Y® ^ e ® f °^ a °p r . 3 ctical"
The allowance is on a sliding scale designed to give pracii
recognition ?o the fact that lower paid employees spend a
gte^er proportion of their pay on essential foodstuffs than
do higher paid employees. Persons in r ® c ®3;P£ ° Jnas in the
Fs 50/- p.m. are being given an allowance t 0 iid
ruoee of their pay', persons whose pay is between b 50 ana .
Rc n n receive an allowance of one anna six pies i
rupee; "and petlonl whosepay is between Fs 100 and Fsl50 p.m.
get an allowance of one anna in the rupee.
(ill) topsail he beginning of June the price of sovereigns
in Bahrain was Fs 52/-. During the month the P r £°®
fn^ac^ad^ren 1 ?' tver ?.D. 5, the price of sovereigns in