'File 8/16 Bahrain Intelligence Summary' [‎47r] (93/206)

Bahrain’s subscriptions to the Arat cause. In reading
the letter to his uncle, Shaikh Abdulla, His Highness'
remarked tartly that it was very satisfactory to know
where the money had got to. No acknowledgement has been
received from anywhere of the money alleged to have been
sent by Shaikh Abdulla in January last.
146. LOCAL AFFAIRS .
(i) The Bahrain Government has sent a questionnaire
to Oil Companies and Commercial firms in Bahrain asking
for figures relating to labour, materials, and services,
which will be of assistance to them in estimating the
national income and local resources of Bahrain.
(ii) Reference paragraph 184 of Intelligence Summary
No.9.
On the 2nd Shaikh Mohammed bin Isa al Khalifah
left by air for Iraq en route to Egypt where he usually
spends the summer.
(iii) On the 1st June a party of Jews who had
"gate-crashed" the R.A.F. cinema at Muharreq had a dispute
with their Persian taxi driver who objected to their over
loading his taxi. An altercation followed and one of the
Jews, at any rate, hit the Persian. He left them and
went to Muharraq town where he roused public feeling against
the Jews to such bad effect that a posse of Arabs,- one of
whom brought a shot-gun, marched to the R.A.F. camp and
laid seige to its telephone exchange in which the Jews had
taken refuge. They were rescued by an Assistant Sub
Inspector of the Bahrain State Police and brought to
Manama where they will be tried. The communal aspect of
the incident has invested it with an importance which
intrinsically it never deserved.
(iv) On the night of the 15th a fire broke out in
Manamah tov/n not far from the Roman Catholic Church. It
was fortunately brought under control before much damage
was done.
147. WEATHE R.
The "barch", the north-west wind which usually
moderates the heat of June has been late in arriving this
year.
148. SHIPPING.
30 ships (13 British, 6 American, 4 Panamanian,
3 Norwegian, 1 Dutch, 1 Italian, 1 Greek, and 1 Portuguese)
called at the port of Bahrain during the period under report.
Imports were 3,646 tons of general cargo for Bahrain and
2,245 tons for transhipment to the mainland. Exports
were 15tons of general cargo and 121750 tons and 28200
drums of petroleum products.
Meteorological.....