Coll 30/52(1) 'Persian Gulf. Diaries: Bahrain News and Intelligence Reports' [‎37r] (75/1077)

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Shaikh Rashid called on 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.
on the.15th. He excused himself for being so late
in paying his call on the ground that he had heard
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. was very busy.
• Local Affairs
(i) The immense interest which is now being taken
in female education in Bahrain was well exemplified
on the 11th May when the Muharraq Girls T School had
its Prize Distribution and gave a play. About 500
ladies had been invited and arrangements were made
for the control of traffic round the approaches to the
School by Police and Nature. The ladies however
were far too much for the Police. Uninvited guests
arrived in scores and mere men were powerless to cope
with them. One lady of more than usually noble pro
portions was observed hurling the puny Police from
her path while shepherding into the School a large
party of friends and relatives who wanted to see the
show. In fact a thoroughly pleasant afternoon was
enjoyed by all, except possibly by Her Highness the
Shaikha and some of the European guests who prefer
less strenuous entertainment.
(ii) Reference paragraph 33 (ii) of my Intelligence
Summary No. 6 of 1940.
Although agitation had subsided the women who
live in the circles in which orders had been given for
the closure of private surface wells decided to take
a hand in this matter. They gave their menfolk 24
hours in which to see*the Political Agent’s inter
vention, and when the men failed to a ct the women
themselves descended on the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. . When order was
restored they were invited to state their grievances,
and they put forward one or two very telling points.
This demonstration coincided with 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. 1 s
final conviction, as the result of certain experiments
recently carried out, that the Bahrain Statels scheme
for a public water supply in Manama had been framed
on meagre and inadequate lines and that the old theory
that an effective sewage and drainage system could not
be introduced except at prohibitive cost was unsound.
Meetings were accordingly held and plans are now to be
prepared for a real public water supply and for proper
drainage. In order to tie in with such a scheme the
six circles in which surface wells are to be filled
in have now been reduced to a radius of 200 feet.
Meanwhile constant care will be taken to ensure
the suuply of larvicidal fish in shallow wells in the
rest of the Town.
55. Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
Reference paragraph 49 of my Intelligence
Summary No. 8 of 1940.
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