مجموعة ٥٢/٣٠(٣) "ملخصات استخباراتية عن البحرين ١٩٤٦" [و‎‎٧‎٨] (٤٧٢/١٥٥)

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possible site for the building of a jetty and break-water.
They carried out a survey in Dubai for the same purpose,
and examined a site on which it is hoped to construct the
Dubai Hospital. They left for Bahrain on the 20th.
Mr.Lindsay, the leader of the party, hopes to return to the
Trucial Coast in July when he will submit his report and
tenders.
(ii) Golden Valley Oc h re and Oxide Co .
Reference paragraph 64(iv) of Intelligence
Summary No.7.
During the period under report almost all the
Red Oxide Company labourers on Abu Musa Island went on
strike and threatened violence to Nasir bin Abdul Latif,
Mr.Pocock’s Interpreter. The'strike was due to Mr.Pocock;s
dispensing with the services of a number of workmen who
were surplus to his requirements. The matter was immed.j
reported to Shaikh Muhammad bin Saqr who despatched his
step-brother, Rashid bin Saqr, to Abu Musa. Rashid h
some of the ringleaders removed from the Island and the
strike was thus brought to an end. Until the end of the
period under report Rashid was at Abu Musa.
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(iii) Anti-Locu st Work .
On the 21st Mr. A. Rodger Waterston, B.Sc.,
F.R.S.E., locust expert of the B.M.E.O., arrived at Sharjan
by air from Bahrain. He made reconnaissance tours to Ras
al Khc.imah and Dubai' areas in order to study the locust
situation.
(iv) Slavery . ^
During the period under report two women ^
the Tunaij tribe were kidnapped from Dhaid by a gang ci
robbers.
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(v) Ras al Khaimah .
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Sai’d al Badi, the Amir of Shamil, a date-palm
district of Ras al Khaimah, who is of the Bidah t' r jG, has
recently sent a warning to Shaikh Saqr bin Muhammad, Ruler
of Ras al Khaimah, saying that on no account he is to allow
the Oi 1 Company surveyors to operate in n his area". Shaikr
Saqr immediately arrested him and his cousins and put th r m
in prj^on. It is strongly believed that Shaikh Sai’d bin
Maktum, Ruler of Dubai, who owns some date gardens in that
village, has instigated Sai’d al Badi to behave in that manr^
(vi) D h a n k .
It is .reported that as a result of a quarrel^
over the water rights of a Falaj (undergroundgwater channel)
in Dhauk, Matar bin Salim al Azizi, the notorious robber of
Dhank, billed Salim bin Samsoom, the Wali of Shaikh Saqr bon
Sultan, Chief of the Nai’m tribe of Buraimi, and his son a: 1
a follower. Shaikh Saqr is reported to have gone to
Dhank in this connection.
(vii) Dubai .
On the 23rd the Shaikh of Dubai alleged tha' 1 1