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'File 8/39 A. S. L. O.'s [Air Staff Liaison Officer] Reports' [35r] (69/416)
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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3* Shipping (periods 16 Jan * 15 Feb*)
^6 ships (21, British, 14 .toorican, 3 Norwegian, 2 Panaannian,
2 Sv/odish, 2 Butch, 1 Italian, 1 Palestinian) called at Bahrain during tho
period under review. Imports were 1779 tons of general cargo for Bahrain
and 1539 tons for transhipment to the mainland. Exports consisted of 26J
tons of general cargo, and 388,200 tons of petroleum products.
9* D u b a j .
(i) Sheikh Mani bin Rashid Makturn, cousin of the Ruler of Dubai, recont-
ly died of Pneumonia in Hire village after a short illness. Sheikh Mani was
a prominent figure in local politics and set himself up as head of the
"Reform Party". In 1938 he was expelled from Dubai with his relatives and
followers. Pie made several abortive attempts to return to Dubai, but final
ly settled at Hira. The Dubai bazaars were closed for throe days as a sign
of respect.
(ii) Reference para 11 (i) of 4SL0 * s report for January.
The Sheikh of Dubai sent out a pursuit party which failed to catch
the raiders, but met with an Rbu Dhabi caravan carrying dates from Buraimi
to Abu Dhabi. They attacked it and it is reported that some men wore killed
and a large quantity of dates and a number of camels stolen from the caravan.
10. Saudi Arabia .
On the 5th King Abdul ±ziz bin Saud was formally informed that tho
Trans-iirabian pipe-line would be constructed. (See para 13 (vii) below).
K U \t A I T :
11. Anti Locust Operations .
In the evening of the 18th January, Mr. Cholmondely of the Middle-
East Anti-Locust Unit arrived in Kuwait with the news that a jeep had
overturned 150 miles away on the Qariya road and that Mr. Lee Oldfield had
sustained a compound fracture of the thigh. He returned the same night
with the Kuwait Oil Company' s ambulance and doctor and Oldfield was in the
Mission Hospital by noon next day. One of the jjnir Saud's oars was also
sent to Qariya to assist and followed the ambulance into Kuwait. Oldfield* s
leg was successfully set and he was flown to Basrah on the 31st en route to
hospital in Cairo.
Scattered yellow locusts began tD appear on the western borders at
the end of the period and swarms must have appeared to the South as sacks
of locusts were brought from there and offered for sale in the bazaar,
12. Presentations to H.H. the Sh eikh of Kuwait .
In January His Highness was presented with a 1946 Buick by the Kuwait
Sulphur Company, 3 Chevrolet pick-ups by the Kuwait Oil Company and a 7
sea ter Humber Pullman by the Imperial Bank of Iran.
13* Local News .
(i) It is understood that a Kuwaiti motor launch loaded with wheat from
Basrah for the Kuwait Rationing Department net with heavy weather on the
1st February and was forced to jettison 200 bags.
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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.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (206 folios)
- Arrangement
The file is arranged chronologically.
- Physical characteristics
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