"ملف 8/16 تقارير استخباراتية بشأن البحرين" [و‎‎١‎٩‎٩] (٤٣٢/٣٩٧)

SECRET„
No.21 of 1942.
Intelligence Summary of the
Political Agent, Bahrain, for
the period 1st to 15th November
1942.
232. Shipping .
See Appendix to this Summary.
233. I'ovements of Officials .
(i) Captain A.3.B. Shah and Mr.E.E. Shipton passed
through Bahrain on the West-bound flying-boat on November
12th.
(ii) The Political Agent flew to Sharjah on November 12th,
visited Has al Khaimah on November 13th, Dubai on November 14th,
and returned to Bahrain on November 15th. This brief but
necessary visit to the Trucial Coast was only made possible by
the courtesy of the R.A.F. who provided transport for the journies
both to and from Sharjah.
234. V isitor s.
(i) Members of the British Parliamentary Mission to
China passed through Bahrain on the East-bound flying boat on
November 1st.
(ii) On November 3rd Mr. Maxwell Darling, who is organising
the Middle East anti-locust campaign, passed through Bahrain on
the East-bound flying boat. The Assistant Political Agent met
him and discussed with him plans for his projected travels in
Saudi Arabia.
(iii) Air Vice Marshal H.V. Champion de Crespigny, M.C•,
D.F.C., Air Officer Commanding, Iraq, rand Air Commodore J.P.
Coleman, A.F.C., Air Officer Administration, Iraq, spent the
morning of November 3rd at Bahrain and left in the afternoon
for Sharjah. They discussed with the Political Agent cert-in
matters of interest to the R.A.F. in Bahrain and Sharjah.
(iv) On November 3rd Shaikh Abdulla al Fadhl, the new
Saudi Trade Agent in Bahrain, arrived with letters of intro
duction to H.H. the Shaikh and the Political Agent from Ibn
Saud.
(v) On November 7th Lieutenant-Commander-Lockhard, U.5.
Naval Observer, Persian Gulf, arrived from Basrah for a short
visit. Ke warned the Political Agent of some of the diffi
culties likely to arise when U.S. merchant ships are detained
off Bahrain for several days awaiting orders to join convoys
being formed at the mouth of the Gulf.
(vi) On November 8th Major. Peace, the new Commandant of
the Persian Gulf R.A.F. Levies, arrived from Gwadur.
(vii) Major Landsworthy, G II P.A.D. PAIFORCS, arrived on
November 13th to inspect P.A.D. work undertaken by the Bahrain
Petroleum Company.
235. Royal Air Force Levies .
The second Company of R.A.F. Levies required at
Sharjah has still to be raised, and the Political Agent, in
the course of his visit to the Trucial Co^st, discussed ~t
length with Wing Commander Gyll-Murray, D.3.O., O.C. 244
Squadron, Sharjah, and Lieutenant Hailey, officiating O.C.
Dubai and Sharjah Levies, methods of speeding up recruiting
and attracting the right type of recruit. Certain preliminary
steps were agreed upon, but it was decided that no new recruit
ing drive could be undertaken until the new C.O. had arrived.
/ 236.