"ملف 14/9 مراسلات بشأن حقائب ذات طابع سري وسرية مرسلة عن طريق قادة سفن شركة الهند البريطانية وهيئة الخطوط الجوية أو عن طريق وسائل آمنة أخرى" [و‎‎١‎٣‎٢] (٣٤٤/٢٦٣)

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soon as possible. Airing the course of my wanderings,
I r. Abdur ahman gave me a couple of bags which I under
stood from him were for lushire. As 3
Hi^ ; e !p a** Jbag was ready, I ^rove-t' d ^ all
the three bags post haste to the Auharraq bridge/ as tne
half hour l entioned by r. leaned at 10-40 had already
come to an end and I r. Thomas had not arrived with his
kit and 1 wanted to ensure that the launch did not go
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without the mail for ushire. 1 took with me the sad
’arrash and, ha»ving| asjbired myself ti: at TAyrr^r-v^a-no
^ngcr of the launch jbeiftg ready for some time, left the
bags with the head rarrash and told him to give them to
1 ;r. Thomas on his arrival. Cn my way back to the Agency '
rn—~jha. . r. ^homas passed me going to uharraq bridge^
1 turned round and went back to make sure that every
thing was all right, having handed the bags over to ..r.
Thomas and talked to him about the arrangements for send
ing his v/ife and sister-in-law over to ushire v/ith
such luggage as he might not be able to take with him I
i-eturned to the Agency.
4. The initial mistake over the bags was, I suppose,
i.r. Abdur ahman’s, but I would strongly request that no
''black mark 11 is made against him for it, as he has been
suffering regularly and at timedacutely from asthma
since he cam here in anuary and, whereas many others
might have yielded completely to the disease and done
no work at all, he came to the gency on many days when
he might well have stayed at home and worked most con-
scientously during his time here. e was ill at the
time and just about to leave -ahrain on leave. ~ : e no
doubt saw the two bags on the ead Clerk’s Lable and
assumed that they wer for ushire. ihe fault is also
mine for not checking up that these two bags were for
Bushire. Had it not been for the extreme rush wit; which