"ملف ٠١٩٠ مذكرات إخبارية من الساحل المتصالح" [و‎‎١‎٣‎٥] (٤٠٨/٢٦٩)

CONFIDENTIAL.
Trucial Coast Lews Report No. 24 for the period from
the 24th December 1948 to the 8 th January 1949.
165. B.O.A.C.
Nil.
166. SHI PI INC.
(i) On the 27th December s.s. Herdis arrived
at Dubai from Aden and, ha'/ing discharged 1140 packages,
left for Kuwait on the 28th.
(ii) On the 8 th January s.s. Bamora arrived at
Dubai from Bahrain, discharged 3901 packages, left for
Sharjah on the 10th and, having discharged 985 packages,
left for Bandar Abbas the same day.
167. BRITISH INTERESTS.
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(i) Reference para:16Q (iv) of News Report
No.23 of 1948.
On the 5th January Mr. R.E.R. Bird arrived
at Sharjah from Bahrain. His assistant, Mr. E. F. Henderson,
and Mr. Fallon, the Compa ny’s topographical surveyor, also
arrived.
(ii) On the 6 th January a P.C.L. aircraft
arrived at Sharjah with the following geologists
Messrs. Wellings, Lehner, Ion, R.V. Browne and Wetzel. On
the 7th they carried out a reconnaisance flight over Oman
and, after landing at Masirah for refuelling, returned to
Sharjah the same day. On the 8 th Mr. Wellings left Sharjah
end on the 10th the remaining geologists left for Muscat
by road.
On the 6 th thfc Company's M/V JASURA arrived at
Umm al ^aiwain and, after landing stores and equipment, left
for Basrah vis Abu Musa on the 10th.
On the 8 th a Lebanese doctor for the Company
arrived by Company aircraft. His name is Dr. George Asaad
Ghanim.
168. MOVEMFiN 1 S OF TR~TI£L COAoT SHAIKHS.
(i) Reference para:155 (vi) of News Report
No. 22 of 1948.
On the 4th January the Shaikh of Fujairah
returned from Muscat to Fujairah.
(ii) Reference para: 155 (i) of News Report
No. 22 of 1948.
On the 8 th Shaikh Obaid bin luma’h bin Maktum
arrived at Dubai from Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. It is
reported that he presented a number of female slaves to King
Ibn Saud and his sons who presented him with a car (which he
sold in Bahrain) and a sura of money said to be 10,000 Saudi
Riyals. It is further reported that when he arrived in
Riyadh, he found that King Ibn Saud had already left for
Mecca. He sent him a telegraphic message saying that he
wanted to see him personally. Ibn Saud ordered that he should
be sent by air which was done.