"ملف 8/16 تقارير استخباراتية بشأن البحرين" [و‎‎١‎٩] (٤٣٢/٣٧)

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Adviser to the Bahrain Government along with other im
portant personages, called at the Agency to pray him then-
respects.
Dr. and Mrs Dame, prior to their departure to the
United States of America, on leave, called at the
Agency on the 17th February 1941.
Bahrain notables paid a call on the Political
Resident on the morning of the 18t$i. Thefollowing
day, Shaikh Mohammad bin 'Isa, who had not accompanied
the Shaikh of Bahrain on his visit to the Political
Resident, paid a separate call on the Political Resi
dent .
On the evening of the 17th February, His Highness
the Shaikh of^Bahrain gave a banquet in honour of the
Political Resident. Among others, the following were
present: Commodore and Mrs. Graham, Major and Mrs. Al
ban, Mr and Mrs Belgrave, Captain and Mrs Howes, Mr and
Mrs deGrenier. Before the guests took their departure•>
His Highness presented the Political Resident with a oho-
tograph of himself along with a cheque of Rs. 30,000/-
for the Persian Gulf Fighter Fund.
(ii) About the middle of the month, the or^ce of
sovereigns rose fromRs.32/- to Rs.36/- to~Rs.36/4/-.
The reason for this is probably due to the fact that mer
chants dealing with Japanese firms received a telegram
on the 16th February raising all prices by 25%. This-
coupled with the uncertainty in the far east has caused
some uncertainty.
(iii) Prices of some Japnnese goods have only risen abo&t
5 % and it i s stated by a prominent piece goods merchant
that the stocks of Japanese piece goods in Bahrain will
last for three years. Trade in Japanese goods received
a set back as a result of a rumour^ spread in the bazaar
on the afternoon of the 16th February that war had broken
out between Japan and Great Britain.
(iv) A petition^containing some 60 signatures of pro
minent merchants in Bahrain has been received complain
ing of extraordinary delay in censorship in India of air
mail covers addressed to Bahrain, the average delav from
the samples submitted, amounts to 15 days.
(v) A^letter has been seen in censorship in which the
Kuwait Director of Education informs Shaikh Abdullah bin
Isa that a party of 32 schoolboys will be arriving in
Bahrain via Dhahran.
(vi) A^letter been in censorship contains the reply
of the Director of Education Kuwait to a complaint sent
to him by Kuwaiti students in the Bahrain Technical School
at the close of which he says that he is having indeoen-
dent enquiries made into the matter.
(vii) There is some public indignation at the recent
appointment of a Jewish teacher in the Manamah school
in place of a Muslim who has been transferred to Rafa/ .
Two Lebanese teachers, Husni Maleh and Sa 1 id
Tabbara have arrived at the Manamah Technical School.