'File 8/16 Bahrain Diaries 1938 to 1940' [‎57r] (118/376)

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*49. Foreign Interests
(i) Reference paragraph 143 of my Intelligence Summary
No. 21.
Herr Wattenherg called at the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. on the 11th
December 1938 to inform me that his Company (Unduetsch and Co.)
wished to establish a branch in Bahrain. He subsequently sub
mitted a written communication informing me of "the scope of
the proposed agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. , and the matter has been referred to the
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. .
(ii) Herr H. Wenbogorski, agent of the Hansa Line of
steamers at Ahwaz, arrived on the 1st December 1938. He
visited SI Khobar and returned to Bahrain on the 9th December.
He left Bahrain finally on the 11th December.
(ill) Three Germans, Karl Weber and his wife and Paul
Schmidt, passengers on the British India Steam Navigation
Company* s slow boat S.S. H Bamora M , landed during the steamer* s
stay in port on the 12th December 1938. Mr. Weber is a journal
ist and busied himself taking photographs from the time he
landed. He and his wife attempted to pay an unheralded visit
to His Highness the Shaikh, but were dissuaded from making a
nuisance of themselves.' Mr. Schmidt is a merchant and was
met on board by Mr. Campbell, Cray Mackenzie’s agent here.
Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
Reference paragraph 144 of my Intelligence Summary No. 21.
The Muscat Party arrived in Baraimi on the 26th November
and left on the 30th November for Soharj and the Williamson-
Howes Party being unable to make progress south from Baraimi
returned to the Coast, arriving at Sharjah on the 16th December.
L51# Saudi Arabia
At a Tea Party given at the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. on the Anniversary of
the Accession of His Britannic Majesty, the Shaikh of Bahrain
said he had had a letter from Bin Saud describing a very alarm
ing experience which he and the Amir Saud had had. It appears
that on the day of the r Id Bin Saud and the Crown Prince stopped
at the latter* s house for a glass of sour milk each. Sometime
later the Crown Prince was seized with violent stomach pains
and sent for the doctors. While they were attending to him
urgent messages came from the King for the doctors to go to him
at once. Both of them had violent bouts of sickness lasting for
some considerable time, but finally got over it. It appears to
be thought that as the sour milk was brought out of the Crown
Prince* s house there can be no question of poisoning. But on
the other hand could sour milk by itself produce such reactions?
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Meteorological
86.1§ on the 7th and 8th December
60.8 on the 5th December
Maximum temperature .
Minimum temperature .
Humidity exceeded 70 % throughout the fortnight
Bahrain,
The 20th December 1938
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. , Bahrain.
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