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SECRET.
No.10 of 1948.
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BAHRAIN INTELLIGENCE SUMARY FOR PERIOD
1st to 15th June, 1948.
135. MO VEMENTS OF OF FIC I A LS,
•Reference paragraph 122 (ii) of Intelligence
Summary No.9.
His Excellency the Political Resident returned
from Kuwait on the 3rd, He left again for Kuwait on the
13th and returned on the 15th.
136. VISITORSo
(i) Reference paragraph 123 of Intelligence
Summary No.9.
On the 5th Mr. Wilfred Thesiger left Bahrein
by air for London,
(ii) On the 28th May the King of Cambodia, accompanied
by his suite and two French diplomats, stayed the night at
the B.O.A.C. Rest House at Sharjah on his way to France,
(iii) On the 3rd Shaikh Abdul Aziz, son of the late
Shaikh Hamad al Thani, accompanied by his brother Shaikh
Muhammad and four servants, arrived in Bahrain from Qatar.
On the 6th the party left by air for Karachi. On the 14th
Shaikh Muhammad arrived by air from Karachi en route to
Qatar.
137. C ALLS ,
On the 12th His Excellency the Political Resident
took Major R.E.R. Bird of Petroleum Concessions Limited
and Lieutenant Templeton Cotill, R.N., to call on His
Highness the Ruler of Bahrain.
138. PETROLEUM D E VELOPMENT (TRU CI AL COAST?) LIMITED .
(i) Reference paragraph 110 (iv) of Intelligence
Summary No.8.
Under an agreement concluded recently between
the Ruler of Sharjah and the Shaikh of Himriyah the latter
agreed to afford the Oil Company every assistance in return
for a lumPsum payment of Rs,6,000/-- and annual payments of
Rs.4,000/-, The Political Officer, Trucial Coast, ar
ranged the negotiations but took no part in them beyond as
sisting the Ruler of Sharjah by informing Himriyah that
His Majesty's Government were likely to regard Himriyah
as a fief of Sharjah and that the Oil Company would not
deal direct with him.
(ii) Reference paragraph 110 (i) of Intelligence
Summary No.8.
Major Bird has returned to Sharjah from Muscat.
The Sultan seemed extremely perturbed by the Company's
direct...