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Coll 30/52(1) 'Persian Gulf. Diaries: Bahrain News and Intelligence Reports' [22r] (45/1077)
The record is made up of 1 file (535 folios). It was created in 8 Sep 1933-21 Feb 1941. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: 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. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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Intelligence Summary of the i w£v
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, ✓/tf*
for the period 1 st to 15th ^|H
August 1940 3
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>i) The SoS, '’Mobile City 1 ’ (U.S.A.) ai’r’ived here
on the J.st August and left on the 2nd August after
discharging 6869 packages for Bahrain and 28 pack
ages for transhipment to the mainland 0
(ii) I,V 8 5, Captain A 0 F 3 Lucas" arrived here on
che j.st August 1940 and left the same day for Suez*
E gypt ? with a cargo of 2237 tons Diesel Oil and 2398
tons of Fuel Oil.
^Ciii) S.So :, Khuzistan fC CBritish) arrived here on the
lOch August and left on the 11th August with 497
drums (empties; for Abadan, Iran,, after discharging
4510 packages for Bahrain and 2628 packages for tran
shipment to the mainland.
Civ) S.So"Yamabuki Maru" IJapanese) arrived here
on the 11th August and left the same day after dis
charging 80 packages for Bahrain.
(v) S.S."Taraqqi" (British) arrived here on the
11th August and left the same day after discharging
700 packages for Bahrain,..
(vi) T.V. t: 3ierstad t! (Norwegian) arrived here on
the 13th August and left on the 14th August 1940 with
a cargo of 12,289 tons Motor Spirit and 981 tons
Kerosene for New Zealand ports e
(vii) T.V. "Bramora" (Norwegian) arrived here on
the 14th August and left on the 16th August 1940 with
a cargo of 5639 tons Octane Motor Spirit,2168 tons
Motor Spirit and 890 tons Power Kerosene for Mel
bourne, Australia.
89. Move ments of British, Officials,,
(i) Mr H. Weightman, I.C.S. s
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, left for Ziarat, Baluchistan, by air on the
5th August 1940, on recess.
(ii) Major A. C. Galloway,
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.
, Kuwait,
passed through Bahrain on the East bound 'plane of
r.+t- August 1S40 en route for Karachi.
90. British Interests
Reference paragraph No* 7 '
Summary No.13 of 1940.
my Intelligence
Mr. C. R. L. Adrian-Vallance, Director of
Education, Bahrain Government, returned from Basra
by boat on the 3rd August 1 S 4 °>
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The file contains fortnightly intelligence summaries produced by the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. at Bahrain for the years 1933-40. The reports, marked as secret, were sent to the Government of India, 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. , and numerous British diplomatic, political, and military offices in the Middle East. There are occasional hand-written comments in the margins of the reports.
The reports are divided into short sections that relate to a particular subject. Contained within the file is intelligence on the following topics:
- Shipping
- The movements of British and Foreign subjects, and Arab notables
- Local affairs of Bahrain, as well as regional news from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. , and the wider Middle East
- Economic matters and food supplies
- Bahrain Petroleum Company and other matters related to the oil industry
- Transport accidents
- The Bahrain ruling family
- Tensions between Abu Dhabi and Dubai
- The pearl trade
- Workers' strikes in Bahrain
- Local crime
- The slave trade
- Regional boundary disputes
- The impact of the beginning of the Second World War in Bahrain and local reaction to events in the war
- Weather and meteorological data.
A photograph of Charles Belgrave and the French Naval Officer, Contre Amiral Rivet is contained on folio 388. It was taken when the French Sloop Bougainville visited Bahrain on 14-16 February 1935.
The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (535 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 537; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 3-537; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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- Title
- Coll 30/52(1) 'Persian Gulf. Diaries: Bahrain News and Intelligence Reports'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:3v, 3ar:3av, 4r:387v, 389r:537r, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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