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243. Major M.P. O'C Tandy left by car for Basrah on the 18th
returned on the 21st.
VISITORS
244 Major McCoy and Major Kennedy arrived from Basrah on the
17th and returned on the 18th. They stayed at the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. .
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arrirad trod Basrah on the 28th and returnsd the same day.
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246 Reference paragraph 234 of Intelligence Suramry do.20 of
1946. His Highness and party returned from hawking on the 21st
and again went out on a one day hawking expedition on the 2ord.
247. Shaikh Abdulla al Mubarak, C.I.E., went out hawking on the
22nd.
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248. Reference paragraph 235 of Intelligence Senary No^ of
1946 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. paid an official call on the COt/ananaer
Of FL1L sp®ren" on the I6th. The Political. Agent accompanied by
Shaikh Abdulla Mubarak visited the sloop again on the 17th.
249 A oartv of 15 school boys accompanied by an Egyptian
teacher werehnhted to visit the"" The students were very
much impressed and were shown round the sloop by a couple of
office?! who we^S out of their way to answer the numerous questions
put to the ^4 y C rew ma^e’themselves very popular with t l® k h c 4Le nd
during their short stay they were often found m fie market plac^
olavirk foot-ball with the children and taking photographs,
playing Abdullah Mubarak, C.I 3 en^ert^ned Che officers
and some of the Petty Officers to lunph at Mishrif on the Ifth.
H.M.S."Mren" left for Bahrain on the 18th.
250. Trouble developed during the fortnight in -^ he t
Health Department and culminated in a strike of the^yptian doctor
and his wife. He was receiving, £. 140 p.m. and she c^.100 o.m. anc
free Quarters Apart from this he was allowed to accept Tees f^ofi
patients coming bor treatment at his house in the afternoons, and
it so happened that the treatment of those 1+hhft.bout a
• Dispensary in the morning could hardly ever be completed ^hout a
visit to the doctor's house in the afternoon, Abdullah oadhan.
President of the Public Health committee, objected tp this and the
matter has finally been settled by the doctor acc ?4, 1 r ni fhHiihoh he
£ 40 D m in lieu of the right to charge fees, and by Abdullah
fadhan"resigning. The Egyptian doctor and his wife now receive
about Rs.3,900/- per mensem, m addition to which she may charge
Rs.iOO/- for every delivery she attends out oi hours.
251. A Persian boy aged about 14 who was employed as a car
i cleaner was suspected of naving stolen money
the house of the former Saudi Trade Agent. Traditipnal methods
were successful, and the boy, although he bore the first ilogging
with complete Stoicism, broke down when preparations were made lor
an encore, and confessed.
Mr G.S. Mundy, a director of Dray, Mackenzie, London
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