"ملف ٠١٩٠ مذكرات إخبارية من الساحل المتصالح" [و‎‎١‎٤‎٦] (٤٠٨/٢٩١)

Confidential
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Trucial Coc^st llevs . eport No# 5 fct the period froai
the 9th to the hSrd 51arc 1949*
50 ♦ X ♦ A « h *
Nil.
cl* Shippinr.
(i) On the 15th S.3.
from hunder Ahhrs# discheT^ed 57
having dischn ged 1969 package« #
Burp eta arrived at Sharjah
r ' packager. # 1 eft for Dubai and,
left for Bali rain on the 14th*
(ii) Cn the 16th S.S* larala arrived at Dubai from
Bahrain, discharged 59 packages, left for S'- artah and, having
discharged 2?0Z pack gee?, left for Muscat the sure day*
32* British Interests*
(i) On the 9th Sir Hugh Weight ran, C.I.E*, C*S*I*,
arrived at Shar r.k by air. On the 10th he left for Abu Dhabi
by air and retimed to Sharjah cn the 11 th.
(ii) On the. 10th the Holloways surveyors party
under r* Lindsay left fo Huscat by car arriving there on
the 11 th*
(iii) Kr. Noble ©i the Ministry o Works, Cairo,
left for Muscat on the 10th arriving there nr tie 11th*
{iv) Reference para: 23 (i) of News Report No* 4 of f 49
On the 10th Mr* A .2* Bird left for the United
Kingdom by ai ,
¥
(v) During the period under report, petroleuia
Development (Trucial Coast) Limited, reroved their crop fimn
the Jabal Ali area and brought their stores and equipment to
their Sharjah heuee* TH«.- seismic party are now operating in
Dubai and Sharjah areas from a line running northwards and
eastwards.
On the 15th Itcssrs* Baker, jE*F. Veiling© aiid
G*A. Giboon, Company geologists, ived at SJiar ah by air*
On the 16th they carried out a recannaisss; nee flight over
Oman and, after landing in Masi ah for refuelling, they
retumdd to Sharjah* They left Sharjali on the 17th* 21
O 21 the 16th Squadron-Leader Codrai arrived at
Sharjah to take up his appointment as Assistant to Mr* H*M*
Jackson, Representative of Messrs* Petroleum Development
(Trucial Co^st) Limited*
33* kovenients Trucial Gorst Shaikhs*
{i ) Re ference pa ra tr7 cf Kewe R eper t No• 4 of f 49.
On the 10th Shaikh Sultan bin Saqr, Ruler of Sharjah
have le t Bahrain
treatment for hie
for India on 21st where he intends to undergo
rany a 11 mentt•