"ملف 8/16 ملخص استخباراتي بشأن البحرين" [و‎‎٢‎٣] (١٠٨/٤٥)

SECRET ,
No. 11 of 1945.
Intelligence Summary of the
Political Agency, Bahrain, for
the period 1st to 15th June., ’1945 .
82. SHIPPING .
Ten ships (five British, four American and one Panamenian)
called at Bahrain during the period under report. The imports
were 1,327 tons general cargo for Bahrain and 1,054 tons for
transhipment to Saudi Arabia. The exports consisted of 161 tons
general cargo and 70,600 tons petroleum products. Two ships
were still in port at the end of the period.
83. MOVEMENTS OF OFFICIALS .
(i) Reference Bahrain Intelligence Summary No. 6 of 1945*
On the 4th June His Excellency Field Marshal Viscount
Wavell, G.C.B., G.M.S.I., G.M.I.E., C.M.G., M.C., accompanied by
Lady Wavell and Sir Evan Jenkins, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., Private
Secretary to the Viceroy passed through Bahrain en route to India.
(ii) On the 5th June, Group Captain H.P.G. Leigh, the
Bahrain State Engineer, left for Basra by air and returned on
the 10th June.
(iii) On the 12th June, Captain R.C. Murphy, Political
Officer, Trucial Coast, arrived from Sharjah.
84. RAS AL KHAIMAH.
On the 12th June, His Excellency Shaikh Sultan bin Salim,
Ruler of Ras al Khaimah, arrived from Sharjah by air.
The object of his visit is reported to be the obtaining
of a working oil concession instead of the present Exploration
permit from Messrs. Petroleum Concessions, Limited. ' Shaikh
Sultan is staying with the Ruler of Bahrain.
85. SAUDI ARABIA .
Reference paragraph 83(1) above. His Excellency Field
k Marshal Viscount Wavell who arrived by air from Saudi Arabia
^ sent a telegram to His Majesty King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud express
ing thanks for the hospitality he had received during his recent
visit. ; His Majesty expressed himself in reply as being very
. touched by Lord Wavell»s references to His Majesty's kindness.
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86. DUBAI .
In May, two bedouins (one of the al Bu Shamis and the
other of the Awarnir) tried to loot some Dubai camels at Um-
Iqsais, about 5 miles from Dubai. Two Awamir bedouins, who
were rafiqs of the Shaikh of Dubai, resisted the attack and
killed the Shamisi bedouin and wounded the Awamiri who was
taken to Sharjah where the R.A.F. medical officer treated the
bullet wound in his back.
37 • SYRIA AND THE LEBANON .
,/to the Many Arabs including the Shaikh of Bahrain have expressed^
Political their satisfaction at the British action taken in Syria and the
Agent Lebanon. Local feeling is unreservedly and vehemently anti-
French.
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88. ZUBARAH.
On the 6th of June, the Political Agent was visited by
His Highness the Ruler of Bahrain who treated him for a second
time to lengthy and discdysive complaints against the Shaikh of
Qatar. Most of these concerned petty incidents but the ‘
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