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'File 8/16 Bahrain Intelligence Report' [‎25r] (49/154)

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The record is made up of 1 file (75 folios). It was created in 1 Jan 1947-31 Dec 1947. 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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The visit unfortunately coincided with three days of
Bahrain weather at its worst — hot, steamy and eirless.
93. LANDING ARRANGEMENTS,
Reference paragraph 79 of Intelligence Summary No.7.
As a result of a secpnd meeting the Bahrain merchant
community now propose to tform a landing company of their ovpi and
" v ,000 ^to finance'it. The Bahrain
1- 7 r', -vo A] 1 v'i rr a rf o ,T . m C? C? C ( 1 \
ruosr
their
Gray
licence
to
have promised a sum of Rs.7,00,
Government have informed the present landing agents,
Mackenzie & Co., Ltd., that they do not mean to renew
which expires in June, 1947, but are finding it difficult
recognise a new landing company since they have neglected to give
the six months' notice of termination in accordance with the terms
of the licence. Messrs. Gray Mackenzie S: Company have had,
practically speaking, a monopoly for unloading cargo and there
have been complaints against them from all quarters. Many fqel^
that the cold wind of competition might bestir them into rendering
better service.
99. BURAIML
Reference paragraph 91 of intelligence Summary N-o. 8 .
he 2nd, the Shaikh of Ajman returned from llasfut
and posted a small number of guar Is in it
he Shaikh of Fujairah.
On uy,.
having built the tower
Re was accompanied by
100. SHARJAH.
(i) Reference para 87(ii) of intelligence Summary Mo. 8 .
It would appear that the Shaikh of Sharjah has lost
ill
sense of proportion in his precautions against what he considers
to be Shaikh Humaid bin Abdullah's designs on his life. Not only
has he employed, at very considerable expense, a number of bedouin
to man everv tower, mosque, and double-storeyed building in Sharjah
and the village of Khai^ but he has engaged and armed 40 Baluchis
recently reduced from the R.A.F. establishment. No traffic can
approach Sharjah from Khan by day or night without being fired on;
patrols on foot and in Jeeps nightly move on the Dubai border;
suspected spies are arrested and imprisoned on the flimsiest p
■e
texts;, while the town guards, demonstrating their wakefulness wich
shots and eerie shrieking, combine with startled dogs, donkeys,
and cocks to turn night into Bedlam. All of this because the
Shaikh of Sharjah's very black conscience suggests to ^him that, now
that Dubai is no longer involved with Abu Dhabi, he will certainly
help Shaikh Humaid (the nephew of the man supplanted^by_ the present
Ruler of Sharjah) to turn him out, if only as a^reprisal^for
Sharjah's surreptitious aid to Abu Dhabi. Humaid, for his part, ^
is a drunkard and an opium-eater whose most constant pre-occupa cion,
« •. • -7 • J _.r» 4--U ~4.’ T+- A r, r. 1 w-r
apart from liquor, is Mis courtes;
in of the moment. It is generally
thought that, whatever his designs against Sharjah nay have been
(there is no evidence that he has any now unless they have recently
been put into his head by
has tht
Sharjah's % obvious panic), he no longer
resolution or the energy to carry them out; but it is
ironical that the nephew of the man deprived of the Shaikhdom
should be able to reduce his uncle's supplanter to a state of
terror and, what is far more difficult, induce him co spend money
freely, simnly by following his natural inclination to get riotously
drunk.
(ii) One Abdullah
from the Shaikh of Shar,
Sharjah.
as -8 ani', a Kuwaiti,
ah to instal and run
has obtained
a flour mill
t
monopoly
101. ABU MRS A.
of 1946.
Reference paragraph 256 of Intelligence -Summary No.21
/S.'S. ... .

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The file contains fortnightly intelligence summaries produced by the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. at Bahrain for the year 1947. The reports, marked as secret, were sent to the Government of India, the 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. , and numerous diplomatic, political, and military offices in the Middle East. Each report is numbered from 1 to 24 and covers a two week period.

The reports are divided into short sections that relate to a particular subject. Contained within the file is intelligence on the following:

From December the reports include a table of prices for essential commodities.

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1 file (75 folios)
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The file is arranged chronologically.

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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 77; 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. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 1-77; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence.

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