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135• Foreign Interests
(i) Mr. M. W. Thornburgh. Vice President of the
Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited, left on the 2nd
November 1938.
_ (n) c * W. Deacon, late Resident Manager, The
Bahrain xetroleum Company Limited, also left on the 2nd
November 1938.
136 • Trucial Coast
(i) Reference paragraph 129 (a) of Intelligence
Summary No. 19.
The Majlis, under the Presidentship of Shaikh
Said, held meetings to discuss the question of levy of
customs duty, and they have unanimously agreed that a
duty of 2 per cent be charged on all imports, and that
there should be no charge on exports. The Majlis decided
that the levy of duty at this rate should take effect
from 24th November 1938 (1st Shawwal 1357), and that a
Committee of Merchants should be appointed to make a
Customs tariff for the period of one year.
(ii) On the 18th October, when a boy named Abbud bin
Salih, originally from Qais, aged about 12 years, a resi
dent of Sharjah, was going to fetch water from a well about
2 miles from Sharjah, three bedouins attacked and kidnapped
him.
The Ruler of Sharjah sent out a party to pursue
the kidnappers. They have not yet returned.
137. Local Affairs
Reference paragraph 128 (b) of Intelligence Summary
No. 19.
Agitation still continues in a somewhat confused
form. The reforms in the Shera Court have given satisfac
tion to the Shias, but malcontents in the towns have made *
use of an incipient youth movement. Some arrests were
made on the 5th November and on the following day there
was a partial strike organised in the Bahrain Petroleum
Company's premises, and a crowd of young men made a demons
tration in Manamah bazaar. They were dispersed by the
Police without difficulty and normal conditions were rapidly
resumed. A memorandum of demands or - more accurately -
suggestions has now been received from certain self-styled
leaders (one of whom wishes to withdraw his signature while
another denies any knowledge of or interest in the memo
randum*. ) and is under examination.
138. Saudi Arabia
Nothing to report.
139 • Meteorological
Maximum temperature .. 88.8° on the 8th and 9th November
Minimum temperature .. 64.9° on the 15th November
Humidity exceeded 70% on thirteen days.
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Political Agent, Bahrain
Bahrain, 17th November 1938.
Distribution as usual.