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Saudi party should have been do partial to Kashmiri women,
as they were very thin compared with those of their own
country). Rumour has it that in Bombay a number of Saudi
merchants attached themselves to the party in an effort to
export a large number of things from India, but that the
Bombay authorities refused their permission. A rumour is
also current in Bahrain that the principal reason why the
Amir^Mansoor is going to the Lebanon is for treatment of
a knife wound which he sustained during an affray in Bombay.
(ii) On September 24th Abdul Mohsin bin Saud al Jal^i,
son of the Amir of Hassa, arrived at Bahrain for treatment
at the Mission Hospital for general debility and anaemia.
Pan-Arabism
(i) On September 26th there arrived from Saudi Arabia,
without any preViotis intimation of their coming, the Egyptian
Under Secretary of State for the Minister of the Interior and
the First Secretary of the Egyptian Legation in Jedda. The
former had been visiting Saudi Arabia as head of a Mission* to
Ibn Saud in connection with the Pan-Arab movement. They
called on His Highness the Shaikh and left Bahrain on Septem
ber 30th on the westbound flying boat which carried the Amir
Mansoor (reference previous paragraph).'
(ii) On September 21st there were seen in censorship
two letters from Abdullah bin Ali al Zaiyid, the Editor of
the newspaper "Al Bahrain", to which a previous reference
was made in paragraph 38 of Intelligence Summary No.3 of 1943.
They were addressed, in precisely similar terms, to the
Ministers of Education of the Egyptian and Iraq Governments,
and asked that four boys from Bahrain might be given free
tuition at Egyptian and Iraqi schools respectively; it was
stressed that the boys were diligent, healthy and of pure Arab
stock. Abdullah al Zaiyid is the brother-in-law of Shaikh^
Mohammad bin Isa al Khalifah, uncle of His Highness the Shaikh
of Bahrain, who has been on a two months r visit to Egypt and
is now on his way back, but, ta> what extent, if at all, these
applications owe their inspiration to Shaikh Mohammad 1 s visit
to^Egypt is'not known. They are unlikely to have been on
behalf of members of the Ruling family and were in no way
sponsored by His Highness the Shailfh.
Medical
Dr. M.L.A• Steele, the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. Surgeon, had his appendix
removed on September 18th at the Mission Hospital; it Is
understood that it was an acute one and was taken out only
just in time. He left hospital on September 25th and
resumed duty on September 28th.
Bahrain Government Hospital
During the months of July, August
British Service personnel to the numbers of 65, 75 ana ±o
respectively were treated as in-patients at the Bahrain
Government Hospital. Of the total, 95 were serv 2:^.^
Bahrain and 63 were brought here from outside. During
August and September 57% and 33% of ,the patients respec
tively were victims of complaints directly ascribabl^ t^
the heat, i.e. prickly heat, heat exhaustion and boils.
he Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited
(i) On September 24th the first of the construction
len for the Refinery expansion arrived in a D.C.3 tr ra
!airo, having flown from the United States. There were
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