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C.74 CONFIDENTIAL 86/4 EASTERN AND GENERAL SYNDICATE. QATAR.
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence between the Political Agent at Bahrain, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, the office of the Secretary of State for India, and the Admiralty regarding the Eastern and General Syndicate's past interest in obtaining a concession for Qatar and the recent ...
File W/4 Hostilities in Persia: Tangistan Blockade; Confiscation of Tea for Tangistan
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between the British Political Agent at Bahrain and the British Political Resident at Bushire, as well as Sheikh ‘Isā bin ‘Alī Āl Khalifah, ruler of Bahrain, and Sheikh Qāsim bin Mahzā’, Qāḍī of Bahrain. The correspondence concerns the anti-British revolt of th...
File 9/3 Indian business interests in Bahrain and the Gulf
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The file contains correspondence sent and received by the Political Agent at Bahrain concerning how to improve the Indian trade in the Gulf and how to increase it to the detriment of the Japanese trade, providing that India can supply similar goods at competitive prices. The file contains info...
File 22/3 SULTAN bin SAQR, SHAIKH OF SHARJAH - Questions Affecting Him
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The file contains correspondence, mainly between British officials in the Persian Gulf, discussing the actions of Shaikh Sultan bin Saqr, the Ruler of Sharjah and his relations with neighbouring Arab Chiefs of the Trucial Coast, 1933 to 1939. There is also a small amount of correspondence about ...
The file comprises copies of correspondence, memoranda and reports relating to the military defence of Bahrain’s oil refineries and oil fields during the Second World War. The principal correspondents in the file are: the Political Agent in Bahrain (Hugh Weightman; Major Reginald George Evelin W...
‘File 28/3 War. Security Intelligence Section. Movements and Activities of Enemy Agents.’
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The file comprises correspondence relating to intelligence assessments made of a host of individuals whose background, actions, or suspected pro-Axis Power sympathies prompt British officials to pursue further enquiries into them. Principal correspondents in the file include members of the intel...
‘File 28/5 I Export licences for shipments of oil from Bahrain’
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The file comprises papers relating to oil exports made by the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO), and to a lesser extent the California-Arabian Standard Oil Company (CASOC), and the need for regulation of oil exports during wartime. The principal correspondents in the file are the Political Agent...
‘File 28/57-III Volunteers for National Service: Conscription of Labour, etc.’
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The file contains copies of correspondence and other papers relating to the introduction and application of Defence Regulation No. 2 of 1942, issued under the Persian Gulf States (Emergency) Order in Council (1939). The Regulation stipulated that British subjects employed at the Bahrain Petroleu...
‘File 29/3i Food Supplies – Food Control and Rationing & GENERAL’
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This is a correspondence file about food rationing and price controls in Bahrain during the Second World War (1939-1945). The supply and distribution of staple foods such as rice, wheat, barley, flour, sugar, tea and coffee to the population of Bahrain are discussed and to a lesser extent, other...
File 29/31 Matches from India for Bahrain, Trucial Coast & Qatar
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The file contains correspondence about the supply of matches from India to Bahrain, Qatar and the Trucial Coast shaikhdoms, for local consumption, under Government of India export licensing controls and import quotas imposed during and after the Second World War (1939-1945), when matches and oth...
