"ملف 8/16 ملخص استخباراتي بشأن البحرين" [و‎‎٥‎٦] (٢٠٦/١١١)

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Control prices Bazaar prices
Rs. 2 3 0
Rs.l 15 0
Rs.O 9 0
Rs.6 0 0
Rs.O 2 0
Ranging from Rs. 0/13/3
to Rs. 1/6 according
to the quality
Rs.O 9 0
" Rs.O 6 6
Rs.2/- to Rs.2/12
according to the
quality.
167. T RUCIAL COA ST.
The Political Agent visited Sharjah for 10 days
from the 15th to the 25th July. Life there was difficult
as none of the Shaikhs orelocal people could be seen except
after they have broken their Ramadhan fast in the evening.
The following is the news from the Trucial Coast:
(i) P ETROLEUM DEVELOPME N TS (TRUCIaL C OAS T) LIMITED .
The Company have suspended their operatios for
, the hot weather and Mr. H,M. Jackson, who was in charge of
their field party, has left for the United Kingdom on
three months' leave.
(ii) SHARJAH.
45,000 tons of red oxide were shipped to England
in June by the Golden Valley Ochre and Oxide Company from
the islands of Sir Bu Nai'r and Abu Musa. Towards the end
of that month Mr. E.I. Pocock, the Trucial Coast Manager
of the Company, left via Bahrain by air for the United
Kingdom.
(iii) DUBAI .
Shaikh Said bin Maktum, Ruler of Dubai, returned
to Dubai from Muscat by launch towards the end of June.
He is reported to have been well received by the Sultan of
Muscat who gave him four rifles and presents of money to
him and the members of his entourage. On the 3rd July
Shaikh Said left for Bakha to marry a daughter of the Shaikh
of Bakha, and returned to Dubai on the 8th. Shaikh Said
is well over 60 and his bride is 16.
Reference paragraph 155 of Intelligence Summary
No.11.
C ommodity .
Mutton
Beef
Milk
Butter
Firewood
Fish
Dates
Charcoal
Coffee
Investigations have revealed that Suhail had
mortgaged his sister's gold ornaments with some Hindu mer
chants of Dubai for Rs.5,000/- v/hich he paid to certain
Manasir and Beni Qitab bedouin settled in Dubai who promised
to help him in his attempt. The gold ornaments were latter
redeemed by Obaid bin Thani who at once divorced his wife
for assisting her brother in the plot. She and her mother
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