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'File 8/39 A. S. L. O.'s [Air Staff Liaison Officer] Reports' [20r] (39/416)
The record is made up of 1 file (206 folios). It was created in 6 Aug 1946-Jan 1949. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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On the 20th of October Shaikh Mahai.unad bin All bin Huwaidin
visited Sharjah after an absence of nearly four months. Ke called on
the Resident Ayent \v r ho asked hiia v.hy he had so far failed to make his
peace with Abu Dhabi. Shaikh Muhajmnad replied that he had given a pledge
to the Shaikh of Dubai not to make a separate peace, and added that he
was afraid that if he did make a separate peace both Dubai and Abu Dhabi
would combine against the Deni Qitab. He confirmed in conversation with
the
Residency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India.
Agent that the Shaikh of Dubai had supplied him with ams
and ammunition but went on to say that most of the latter had proved to
be " dud”.
5- HAS AL JD AliL'Jh
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Reference paragraph 5 of .RiLO’s report for October.
has not yet been settled, the Sheikh of
bh some success. The Snoikh of Has *RL
Al'uhough this diaru
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Sharjah appears to be meetin .. wx
IGiaime.h is now reported to have agreed to allow his brother, Sheikh
Muhammad bin Salim and his brother's eldest son, Sheikh Kumftid bin
Muhammed to remain in Ras A1 IDiaimah.
6 . s:lirjah.
On the 1st Saif bin Abdullah, Cousin of the Shaikh of •
Himriyah, and Sabbat, a guard of Shaikh Ivjajid bin saqr, the Shaikh of
Sharjah 1 s brother, were shot dead in a Shrjah brothel by Shaikh Hadif
bin ilumaid, a son of the Shaikh of Himriyah, -.shaikh Sul ban bin Abdur-
Rahman, a brother of the Shaikh of J'imriyah, and one of their slaves.
The murders are believed to be a reprisal for the murder by Saif bin
Abdullah of the late Shaikh of Himriyah some fourteen yeart> ago. A woman
living in a hut near the brothel was hit by two of the bullets fired.
She was flown to Bahrain for medical treatment and though her condition
is serious, there are hopes that sho will recover. The Shaikh of Sharjah
is paying for her treatment. The murderers were pursued by car as far as
al Jarf, seven miles from Himriyah, by a Slirjah pursuit party who turned
back at this point. No further action has been taken by the Shaikh of
Sharjah in this matter, and the report -oss that he stood in some fear of
Saif bin Abdullah and is glad of his death.
7. PETROLEUM C ON CUSSI ONS LTD.
Reference paragraph 8 of ASLO’s report for October.
The Geophysical party have worked over the whole of the
territories of .*jman and Umin al Qawain. They have now pitched their
camp between Dubai and Abu Dhabi and u.re working along the coastal strip
towards Abu Dhabi. They have already covered most of Dubai Territory,
8 . AIR TR 1^ 1 0 TH OUGH BAHRAIN .
There has recently been a considerable increase in civil air
traffic through Bahrain. During the month under review 24 civil aircraft
landed at Kuharraq airfield. Pour of these were Saudi Arabian Dakotas,
which are being flown by American crews. Other aircraft belonged to various
British charter firms, TMV.A. Air Prance Netherlands Government air Trans
port, A Arabian Anerican Oil Company, in addition nine French military air
craft landed for refuelling.
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The file contains the monthly intelligence reports of the Air Staff Liaison Officer in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , based in Bahrain, for the period July 1946 to January 1949. The reports were distributed to several military and political offices in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. region, including the Bahrain Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. . Each report, marked secret, consists of several sections relating to geographic area, as follows: Bahrain and the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. (including Saudi Arabia, Persia [Iran], and Qatar), Kuwait, and Muscat. Within each section is summarised intelligence on the following matters:
- shipping and air traffic;
- local news and tribal affairs;
- trade and industry;
- banking;
- the supply of electricity, water, and postal and medical services;
- the activities of the Royal Air Force (RAF) and Royal Navy;
- the operations of oil companies and other private entities;
- smuggling and slavery;
- anti-locust operations;
- weather and meteorological data.
Many reports also include a list of exchange rates and local prices.
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- 1 file (206 folios)
- Arrangement
The file is arranged chronologically.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the back cover with 208; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- IOR/R/15/2/333
- Title
- 'File 8/39 A. S. L. O.'s [Air Staff Liaison Officer] Reports'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:207v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence