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Coll 30/52(1) 'Persian Gulf. Diaries: Bahrain News and Intelligence Reports' [394r] (789/1077)
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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of 1934. Hajjl Yusuf Kanoo fxroceeded to Shar,1ah on the 6 th
February to obtain on behalf of the Golden Valley Ochre and
Oxide Company the Shaikh’s signature to a concession agreement
to cover the mining of red oxide of iron from the Islands of
Abu Musa and Sir Bu Na’ir. The Shaikh accepted the proposed
agreement subject to the inclusion of certain additional clauses
which have been referred to the Company by Hajji Yusuf Kanoo.
On the 14th February 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.
visited Abu Musa Island
in H.M.S Fowey to see the Company’s Mining Engineer, who had
just arrived in order to start mining operations.
22. BAHRAIN .
(a) . The old standing ill-feeling between the Sunnis and
Shi’ahs (Baharinah) of Bahrain has again become acute and the
latter put forward a number of political demands, some reason
able and others of an extravagant nature and started open
agitation in support of them. His Excellency Shaikh Sir Hamad
bin ’Isa A1 Khalifah had already had under consideration certain
measures designed to improve the position of his Baharinah
subjects and this policy will be pursued, though the leaders
have been warned, both by His Excellency Shaikh Sir Hamad and
by 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.
, that they will be held personally
responsible for any breach of the peace and the agitation has
subsided.
(b) . Elections to the Manamah Municipal Council were held
on the 12 th, 13th and 14th February. It was at first rumoured
that in view- of the recent agitation the Baharinah would boycott
the elections, but they actually voted in great strength.
S3. SA’UDI ARABIA .
(a). It is understood that King ±A Bin Sa’ud has paid the
firm of Messrs ’Abdul ’Aziz al Qusaibi & Brothers a sum reported
to be £.5,000 (gold) in part payment of the amount owed by him
to this firm.
/(b)
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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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