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97. LIQUOR CONTROL o
The Bahrain Government are concerned at the increase
in the consumption of liquor by non-perrnit holders and the
British police Detachment have been busy hunting out sources
of illicit supplyo
Their zeal, however, led to an unfortunate incident
on the night of the 8th when they attempted to arrest two
Indian soldiers of the D.IoDo in the act of selling an agent
a consignment of Army beer 0 one soldier was arrested and
taken to the Fort for inquiry and the other took to his
heels and was chased into the D.!«D. camp by two British
sergeants. The latter were surrounded by Indian soldiers
and a fracas ensued, one serjeant made his escape through
a skylight in the room where they were eventually confined
and telephoned Hr. Belgrave, Adviser to the Bahrain Govern
ment, who arrived on the scene to effect the rescue of the
other serjeant.
The Bahrain Government have complained to this
Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. and the matter has been taken up with the Officer
Commanding Troops.
OS. M0N3Y CHANGBRS .
The British Police have arrested Dawood Menashi
Cohen and Anwar Menashi Cohen, two Jewish money changers,
and an Indian artisan while they were engaged in melting
down silver coins into bullion bars in the shop of the
latter. The police discovered in the shop a large number
of current Saudi Arabian and Indian rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. and old Persian
rials, a bar of rupee silver, and a melting pot full of
rupee silver mixed with silver thread. A search of the
Cohens' stags shop revealed 98 packets of gold thread,
sodium carbonate and other smelting material and a bottle
of what smelt like whiskey but proved on analysis to be
"about 30^ very crude fermenting spirit of alcohol. Not
whiskey".
99. TRUCIAL COAST A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. AFFAIRS .
(i) On the 3rd Shaikh Ahmad bin Rashid, Ruler of Umm
al Qaiwain, left for Abu Dhabi by car. On the 4th he came
to Sharjah. On the 5th he lunched with the Ruler of Sharjah
gxxtas and left for Umm al Qaiwain the same day.
(ii) On the 4th shaikh Mohammed bin Isa bin Salih al
Harthi of the Shariqiyah (Oman), arrived from India by*air
and stayed with the Ruler of Sharjah. On the 6th he visited
Dubai at the Ruler’s invitation. On the 9th he left for
Muscat in a car provided by the Ruler of Dubai and was
escorted as far as the Jebel Faiyeh by Shaikh Rashid, the
Ruler of Dubai's eldest son.
(ill) The following persons called on the political Agen '
during his stay in Sharjah.
On the 1st Mays Shaikh Said bin Maktum, O.B.Bo,
Ruler of Dubai, and his son Shaikh Rashid.
On the 2nd Mays Shaikh Sultan bin Salim,
Ruler of Has al Khaimah.
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