'File 8/16 Bahrain Diaries 1938 to 1940' [‎14r] (32/376)

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Secret ,
No. 6 of 1938
V.
Intelligence Summary of the Political
Agent, Bahrain, for the period 16th
to 31st March 1938.
32. Shipping .
(i) S.S. Gierfels (German) arrived here on the 21st and
left on the 22nd March 1938 after discharging 4075 packages ^
for Bahrain and 4000 packages for transhipment to the main land. *
(ii) Tankship Tachibana Maru (Japanese) arrived here on the
23rd and left on the 24th March 1938 with a cargo of 8403 tons
of Fuel Oil,
(iii) S.S. Beng Kalis (Dutch) arrived here on the 27th and
left on the 28th March 1938 with a cargo of 9 cases Badio appa
ratus and one case advertising signs, after discharging 7570
packages for Bahrain and 3246 packages for transhipment to the
mainland.
(iv) S.S. Neuenfels (German) arrived here on the 29th and
left on the 30th March 1938 with a cargo of 1026 bags of shells,
after discharging 822 packages for Bahrain and 66 packages for
transhipment to the mainland.
(v) Tankship Nederland (Dutch) arrived here on the 30th and !*
left on the 31st March 1938 with a cargo of 8837 tons of Gaso
line, 1709 tons of Kerosene Oil and 1269 tons of Diesel Oil,
after discharging 19,000 packages for Bahrain.
(vi) S.S. Lindenfels (German) arrived here on the 9th and
left on the 16th March 1938 after discharging 28,991 packages
for Bahrain and 217 packages for transhipment to the mainland.
33. Movements of British Officials .
(i) I left for A1 Khobar on the 16th afternoon and returned
the following evening with Her Royal Highness Princess Alice,
the Earl of Athlone, Lord Frederick Cambridge and Mr. Gault of
the Jedda Legation.
(ii) The Honourable Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Trenchard Fowls,
K.C.I.E., C.B.E., Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , accom
panied by his Under Secretary Captain J. Cotton, arrived on the
21st March. After handing over charge of current duties to me
on the 23rd afternoon, Sir Trenchard Fowle left for England.
(iii) I left for Sharjah on the 24th and returned to Bahrain
on the 26th March.
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34. Local Affairs .
. „ (*•> 0l » morning of the 18th March His Highness the Shaikh
or Bahrain paid an inforaial call on Her Royal Highness Princess
Alice and the Earl of Athlone at the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. , the call being re
turned after a brief interval. In the evening a mall dinner par-
ty was held at the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. . The n-.-xt day the visitors were invL
tc> an Arab lunch by His Highness, and afterwards visited the
T £ ey left for Dhibban b y Royal Air Force aircraft
on the 20th March.
. f 11 ,) Shaikh Abdullah bin Hamad al Khalifah, one of His
spend e »t °? th ? 3 ?t h K&rch for England. He is to
spend at Oxford learning English.