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SECRET
No.3 of 1945
20. SHIPPING
Intelligence Summary of the •
Political Agency, Bahrain, for
the period 1st to 15th Febru-
ary 1945.
Ten ships called At Bahrain during the period under
report. Five of these were of British registry, three
American, and two Norwegian. The imports were 266 tons
general cargo for Bahrain and 54 tons for transhipment to
Saudi Arabia. The exports consisted of 112 tons general
cargo and 81,600 tons petroleum products.
21. Movements of Officials
Captain M.P.0 f C. Tandy, Assistant Political Agent,
Bahrain, left for Sharjah on the 4th and went to India on
the 12th. During the time that he was at Sharjah
Captain Tandy visited the Shaikhs of Dubai, Sharjah, and
Ras-al-Khaimah.
paragraph No.l3(i) of Intelligence Summary
22. Visitors
(i) Reference
No.2 of 1945.
Mr. E.A. Skinner left for Cairo via Basra on the 7th.
It is understood that Mr. Skinner invited Major F. Holmes
of the Board of Directors of the Kuwait Oil Company to meet
him in Basra.
(ii) 0n^ the 3rd His Excellency Sir Reginald Dorman Smith, G.B.E.,
accompanied by Mr. Hughes his personal secretary, arrived from
India and departed the following day for London.
(iii) On the 15th Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Courtney, G.B.E.,
C<B.* D.S.O., accompanied by Air Commodore Manning arrived from
Iraq and went on to India the following day.
(iv) On the 5th Mr. D. Ham the Manager of the Eastern Bank Ltd.,
left for short leave in India;
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23. Calls
On the 4th the Political Agent introduced captain R.E.R.
Bird, Political Officer Trucial Coast, to His Highness the
Shaikh on his arrival from Sharjah.
24. Royal Air Force
(I) Bahrain
During the period under review Air Commodore Oliver accom
panied by rather more than twenty experts made a survey of
the new Royal Air Force commitments on Muharraq Island and
informed the Political Agent that it was probable that the
personnel of the Royal Air Force at Muharraq would be increased
by a further six hundred men'during the summer. The progress
with the laying of pierced steel sheeting alongside the runways
has been satisfactory and it is understood that very shortly
a firm of Palestinian contractors will be commencing work on
the laying of pierced steel sheeting on a bitumen and sand
foundation on the main runways themselves.
(ii) Sharjah
The political Agent has been informed that it is proposed
to double the present accommodation at Sharjah but no additional
land will be required.