"ملف 8/43 نشرة الخليج العربي" [و‎‎١‎٢‎٢] (٥٧٠/٢٤٣)

PERSIAN GULF NEWSLETTER FOR
. SEPTEMBER.
Bahrain pearling boats which had put out to the
oyster banks after Ramadhan are due to return shortly.
His Highness Shaikh Sir Salman bin Hamad Al
Kialifah, K.C.I.E., Ruler of Bahrain, has moved from
his summer palace at Qudhaibiyah to his palace at Rafa'ah.
. , Wi«h a change in the weather on the Trucial Coast,
inhabitants oi the coastal tov/ns started returning from
tneir summer resorts. Large numbers of pilgrims from
this area, including some members of the Ruling fara.il/
of Dubai left for Mecca via Al Khobar. " J
Ij.3 Highness Shaikh Ahmad al Jabir, Ruler of*
Kuwait who is on a visit to Pakistan and India is
expected to return to Kuwait shortly.
Kuwait ocean-going booms have put to sea with
cargoes of Iraqi dates for Indian ports. Some of them
ha/e already reached tneir destinations. The new boys’
school, an imposing building on the sea front with
quarters alongside for foreign teachers, has been completed.
A^lew of tne Egyptian teachers for Kuwait have returned
aiter the summer holidays. The others have been held up
in Egypt due to the cholera epidemic, and, it has been
decided not to re-open the schools until all the
Egyptian teachers have returned. The new .50 foot road
which will lead from the sea front to the M 3afat” is now
under construction. Properties of private owners will
have to be demolished for this project, and it is anti
cipated ^ that the Kuwait Government will .pay them over
three million rupees as compensation.
Reports from Muscat state ‘that the ban on the
import of dates into, India is causing great distress
among the population and exporters; the latter are
mostly Indians. Oman dates has been one of the chief
exports of Muscat. 'The ’.fa sc at Government have espab-
1ished a custom house at Sohar, a small port on the
Batmah Coast. Ohabib Naqshbandi, headmaster of the
Sultani school and mistress. Munirah, teacher of the
Girls’ School, have returned to Muscat from Palestine
a± ter the summer vacation. The Egyptian steamer "Star
Sgypt' called on September 1st. The radio operator
had been taken sick and had been landed at Calcutta.
The Captain had put into Muscat for orders from his
head office in Alexandria.