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No.9 of 1949 .
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BAHRAIN INTELLIGENCE SUMMARY FOR THE PERIOD
1ST TO 31ST MAY, 1949.
77. MOVEMENTS OF. OFFICIALS s-
(i) Reference paragraph 6?(Ui) of
Intelligence Summary
On the 4th Mr, P*D. Stobart, Political Officer,
Trucial Coast, left Bahrain for Sharjah in the s^/’Earpeta".
(ii) On the ?th May, Mr,B•A,B,Burrows of the Foreign
Office arrived in Bahrain by air from the United Kingdom. On the
8th May. he left by P.C.L^plane for Muscat accompanied by
His Excellency the Political Resident and returned to Bahrain
in the m.s. "Dara". On the 17th May, he left by RAF * plane on
a visit to the Trucial Sheikhdoms accompanied by Mr.R.McC.
Andrew, Assistant Political Agent, Bahrain, and returned on the
same day.• He left for the United Kingdom on the 20th.
(iii) 'On the 12th and again on the.19th the Political
Agent visited Qatar by PCL 1 plane.
(iv) On the 14th Lt.Col.D.G.McCaullay, the new
Medical Officer, Trucial Coast, arrived in Bahrain from the
United Kingdom. He left for Dubai on the 18th.
(v) Mr.A.L.A, Dredge, M.B.E., 1st Secretary, Political
Residency, and Mrs. Dredge left for the United Kingdom on the
19 th.
(vi) On the 26th Mr, P.D.Stobart, Political Officer,
Trucial Coast, arrived from Sharjah by R.A.F.^lane.
78. 3LI. S I T 0 R S :-
(i) Reference paragraph 68(ii) of Intelligency
Summary No.8.
On the 9th May. Mr.Wilfred Thesiger left by air
for Basrah.
(ii) Mr.R.I. Hallows, M.B.E., of the Kuwait Oil Co.,
London, arrived in Bahrain on the 27th and left for the United
Kingdom on the 28th. He stayed at the Agency.
79. LOCAL,AFFAIRft i-
(i) AL KHALIFAH. On the 8th, Shaikh Isa bin Salman,
the eldest son of His Highness the Ruler of Bahrain, was married
to the daughter of Shaikh Salman bin Ibrahim A1 Khalifah. His
Highness gave a number of 'wedding breakfasts', and entertained
His Excellency the Political Resident, Mr.B.A.B.Burrows, the
Political Agent, and about 30 other members of the local
European community to dinner on the 12th.
On the 6th Shaikh Ali, the eldest son of Shaikh
Abdullah bin Isa al Khalifa and a cousin of His Highness overtook
and stopped his car in front of the car of Father Anselm, the
Roman Catholic Chaplain of Manama (an Indian subject) and
struck Father Anselm when he got out of his car to ask the reason.
Shaikh Ali who was the worse for liquor appears to have been
picqued by the fact that a policeman on duty at a traffic
junction gave Father Anselm's car the right of way rather than
that of Shaikh Ali which was at a greater distance from the