"ملف 8/16 ملخص استخباراتي بشأن البحرين" [و‎‎٥‎٨] (٢٠٦/١١٥)

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Ras al Khaimah, proceeded with a force of over 100 men
to Hail but as he arrived there he found that Sultan bin
Salim had left his house and taken refuge in a neighbour
ing house. The house was immediately encircled but Sultan
who showed all sign of submission and cried for mercy was
allowed to leave unharmed. All his belongings such as his
car and arms were returned to him. He proceeded to Khatt
and Adhan and after a halt of one night in the latter vil
lage he left for Dubai.
at Has al Khaimah the official recognition of His Majesty’s
Government of Shaikh Saqr bin Muhammad as Ruler of Ras al
Khaimah. The announcement was made in the presence of
various minor Shaikhs and notables of the town.
(vii) KALBA .
nephew of the Regent of Kalba, with a force of 40 armed men
and with the help of the Secretary of the Shaikh of Fujairah
entered Khor Fakkan and re-established his authority over
it. Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmad, the Regent, went to Khor
Fakkan shortly afterwards and both of them are now there.
.One man was killed and three others wounded. Ali bin
Abdullah, Chief of the Naqbiyeen tribe, escaped to Sharjah
as he was in his village Luliyah when Humai.d took over
Khor Fakkan, and Ahmad bin Hasan, the head notable of Khor
Fakkan, who was slightly injured, also came to Sharjah.
The nephew of the Regent extorted about Rs.13,400/- from
some of the inhabitants of Khor Fakkan and is reported to
be buying arms and ammunition with this money.
There is now therefore no question at the moment
of the recognition of Humaid bin Mohammed as Regent of Kalba.
168. ♦ COMMUNISM 1 . 1
On the 8th the Bahrain Petroleum Company informed
the Political Agent that Syed Hassin Siddik, an Adenese, who
was reported to have made ’’inflammatoyy” and ’’communistic”
speeches to the other Adenese employees of the Arabian
American Oil Company at Dhahran, was believed to have left
for Bahrain the day previous by a country boat in order to
avoid deportation by the Arabian American Oil Company. The
Bahrain Government was asked to make enquiries. They in
formed the Political Agent that Siddik arrived in Bahrain
in the dompany of other Aramco workers, that he possessed
a proper passport, that he consorted chiefly with members
of the small Adenese community in Bahrain, and that he made
no local contacts or speeches before leaving for Saudi Arabia
on the 11th July.
Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf arrived at Bahrain.
On the 18th July the Political Agent announced
On the 4th July Shaikh Humaid bin Abdullah,
He has since been deported to Aden by ’plane.
169. UNITED STATES NAVY.
On the 29th U.S.S. ’’Greenwich Bay”, Captain
Butts, which is making a round-the-world cruise via the
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