Coll 30/5(3) 'Persian Gulf Bahrain Residency Monthly Letter - Summary of Events' [‎50r] (99/194)

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/' Local Arabs are perplexed by our policy in India and
ascribe to us Machiavellian designs. They believe that we
are only pretending to withdraw with a view to proving that
the people of India cannot govern themselves and that in due
course we shall re-establish our rule. They criticise
adversely the callous way in which we are permitting the
sacrifice of thousands of lives in the pursuance of our object*
l■ There is a hope that in May the B.O.A.C. will
establish air services between Bahrain and the United Kingdom
and Bahrain and Karachi though no call is to be made at Dubai.
Meanwhile tentative enquiries have been made from Messrs.
Skyways Ltd. whether they are willing to enter into an agree
ment with the Bahrain Government for the establishment of a
local service. ' Communications by sea have been somewhat
improved by the appearance in the Gulf of the first of the
B.I.3.N. Company’s new motor boats the ’♦DumraB. Her first
journey to Basra and back has been made the occaaion of a
number of parties on board but in spite of or possibly
because of these celebrations she reached Bahrain on her
return journey several days behind schedule.
3. The Gulf States have been fortunate up to date in
that they rarely appear in the news. It is feared that this
blessed state of affairs may not continue. Mr. Boxall of
Reuters has paid a visit to Bahrain and arranged for a local
correspondent there. A Reuters’ correspondent is also likely
to be appointed in Kuwait. Mr. Windham of the '•News of the
World” has refiently paid a visit of a few days duration to
Kuwait and there are other journalists prowling round.
4« Mr. Spinney the head of a big firm of provision
merchants at Haifa and said to be the owner of 2400 pigs
has recently visited Kuwait and is shortly to visit Bahrain
and ^atar. He is to undertake the provision of •’stores*
for the Kuwait Oil Company at Kuwait and for the P.C.L. at
Q,atar. He has been asked by Aramco to run a hotel for them
in Bahrain but it is not know whether he has agreed to do so.
BAHRAIN.
$• I called on Shaikh Salman on the 27th March and found
him in very good health and spirits having recently spent a
few days hunting in the south of the island. Lt.-Col. A.C.
Galloway, C.I.E., O.B.E., handed over charge as Political
Agent to Mr. C.J.Pelly, O.B.E. on the 11th March and left
with Mrs. Galloway for Bushire on the 17 th March. Visitors
E.P .Donaldson Esquire, C.M.G
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. ,
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