Coll 30/52(1) 'Persian Gulf. Diaries: Bahrain News and Intelligence Reports' [124r] (249/1077)
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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lirtelligence Juosnary of tho
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period let to 15th September 1938*
103. Shipping
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(i) S.S* irachenfele (German) arriired here on the 29th
August and let't on the 1st September 1938 with a cargo of
450 bags of Ling ah Shells, after discharging 5425 packages
for Bahrain and 1438 packages for transhipment to the mainland*
(ii) Tankship Clelia Campanella (Italian) arrived here
on the 1st and left on the 2nd September 1938 with a cargo of
4835 tons of 3*891 Diesel Oil*
(ill) 3*3* Ryoyo Maru (Japanese) arrived here on the 3rd
and left on the 4th September 1938 after discharging 8887 pack
ages for Bahrain and 3000 packages for transhipment to the
mainland*
(iv) S*3* Neuenfels (German) arrived here on the 4th and
left on the 8th September 1938 after discharging 5541 packages
for Bahrain and 4639 packages for transhipment to the mainland*
(v) 3*3* Khuzistan (British) arrived here on the 5th Sep
tember 1938 and left the same day with a cargo of 44 bundles of
empty tins, 250 empty drums and 250 drums of kerosene oil, after
discharging 5696 packages for Bahrain*
(vi) 3*3* Kurjehan (British) arrived here on the 6th Sep
tember 1938 and left the same day after discharging 413 packa
ges for Bahrain and 850 packages for transhipment to the main
land*
(vii) 3*3. feaantai Kara (Japanese) arrived here on the 7th
and left on the 8th September 1938 after discharging 2087 pack
ages for Bahrain.
(viii) Tankship Kmma Maerak (Danish) arrived here on the
7th and left on the 8th September 1938 with a cargo of 4679
tons of B-891 Diesel Oil and 8792 tons of B-849 Fuel Oil.
(lx) Tankship Attila (Norwegian) arrived here on the 10th
and left on the 11th September 1938 with a cargo of ‘7444 tons
of 8-350 Gasoline Whit#, 506 tons of B-451 Super Power Kerosene
Oil, 1348 tons of B-400 First Grade Kerosene Oil and 2013 tons
of B-811 Diesel Oil*
(x) Tankship Nederland (Dutch) arrived here on the 13th
and left on the 14th September 1938 with a cargo of 2947 tons
of B-357 Gasoline Whits, 7617 tons of 3-358 Base Stock Gaso
line and 534 tons of 3-450 Super Power Kerosene*
104. UOV entente o f Brit lab Official*
(I) Captain J* B* Howes, I.a.,
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,
returned from Sharjah on the 2nd September 1938*
(II) Lieutenant-Colonel J«J* Rooney, I*M*3*,
Residency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India.
Surgeon, Bushire, arrived and left on the 3rd September 1938*
(ill) &r* Harris, Acting British Consul, Basra, spent the
night of September 9/10th in Bahrain on his way back to Basra
%;;. a from Jiunri. He was taken back to Basra on September 10th by
EEkfl. < R.M.3* Shoreham*
2 9SEP1938
<iv)/«
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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.
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- 1 file (535 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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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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