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Brown, Bahrain Manager of the Company, called on the
political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. .
(iv) On the 30th His Highness the Shaikh of Bahrain
called^on the political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. at the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. . He discussed
Palestine and 'Ibn Saud and his remarks on both subjects
could have been, and were meant tb be applied to his own
^dispute with Qatar and with its Ruler.
(v) M. Jean de Kushusski and Mr. John Pixton,
employees of a British film company who have been in
Riyadh for two months filming King «Ibn Saud, called on
the political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. on the 30th. Their film is not to be
in colour as there are, they state, only two machines which
take coloured films in Great Britain. They suffered opposition
from the Saudi officials.
248 • PSTROLBUM DEVEL O PMENT (T RUCIAL C OAST) LIMITED ,
(i) The Survey Party are still working in Abu Dhabi
territory and have moved to a new camp site at Al Marfa, v
about 87 miles along the coast from the town of Abu Dhabi.
(ii) On \the 17th three cars containing three of tJie
Company’s American geophysicists who were checking points
in Beni Ka’ab territory were stopped by some bedouin who
asked them fo-r dates. They were given some dates but pro
ceeded to demand enough dates for two days, and threatened
to shoot if this quantity was not produced. They ’eventually
reconciled themselves to going without the dates and allowed
the cars to pass.
249. CHO LERA.
Reference paragraph 237 of Intelligence Summary Ho.21.
There were no cases of cholera reported from Dubai
during the period under review. The Medical Officer, frucial
Coast, has inoculated one quarter of the population of Dubai,
and the R.A.F. Medical Officer at Sharjah has inoculated about
the same number of people in Sharjah. The fact that no further
cases of cholera have occurred makes the public unwilling to
submit to preventive treatment and inoculation is proceeding
slowly.
250. GULF AIR COMMUNICATIONS .
(i) Reference paragraph 236(ii) of intelligence
Summary No. 21.
The" 'Iraq Government have now removed their res
trictions on air passengers and others entering 'Iraq.
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(ii) As a result of heavy rains on various parts of the
Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. on the 18th the Sharjah aerodrome was waterlogged
and rendered .unsuitable for the landing of aircraft for a whole
week.
251. VI SIT OF P AKISTAN NA VAL VE SSEL .
On the 20th H.M.P.S. "GODAVARI", Commander A. Rashid,
R.P.N., arrived in Bahrain and Iqft on the 23rd.