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1. '11/3 ACTIVITIES OF SAUDI ARABIANS IN DOHA'
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- Abstract: This file is entitled 'Activities of Saudi Arabians in Doha'; however, it concerns the activities of Saudi Arabians in Bahrain. The file includes correspondence between Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Gordon Loch, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; Captain George Ashmead Cole, Political Agent at Bahrain; and Charles Dalyrmple Belgrave, Adviser to the Bahrain Government.Correspondence between 1934 and 1935 concerns a Saudi proclamation ( i‘lān) posted on a wall in the Manama Pearl Bazaar without the permission of the Government of Bahrain (ff 2-3); action regarding a Nejd [Najd] travel document issued to Mohomed Ali [Muḥammad ‘Alī bin ‘Īd] and signed by Shaikh Mohomed al-Tawil [Muḥammad al-Ṭawīl], a Saudi official accompanying the Saudi Arabia Delegation in Bahrain (ff 4-8); and a case involving a Saudi subject charged with importing a rifle into Bahrain and selling it at Muharraq, plus a subsequent letter from Hamad Sulaiman [Ḥamad bin Sulaymān], a member of the Saudi Arabian Delegation in Bahrain, to Shaikh ‘Abdullāh bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah regarding the matter (ff 9-13). The remainder of the file (ff 14-25) consists of copies of correspondence between the Political Resident and the India Office with regards to the issue of the flying of the Saudi Arabian flag by the Trade Agent of ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd [Ibn Saud] on Fridays at Kuwait, and how this issue pertains to the other Shaikhdoms of the Persian Gulf, including Bahrain.Notable Arabic documents include the aforementioned proclamation, dated 23 Sha‘bān 1353 [1 December 1934], concerning plans by the Government of Saudi Arabia to offer to carry fifty pilgrims in motor cars from Hasa (al-Aḥsā’) to Mecca and Medina (f 3), with a partial translation appearing on folio 25; and the aforementioned travel document ( tadhkirat huwīyat al-musāfir) issued by the Government of Saudi Arabia and including the stamps of the passport offices of Qatif [al-Qaṭīf] and Bahrain (f 5).Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover and terminates at the inside back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 1-24; these numbers are also written in pencil, and can be found in the same position as the main sequence, but they are not circled.
2. ‘Persian Gulf. Relative to the embarrassment caused by the grant of a passport to a Hindoo Buneea by the Commissioner in Sind.’
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- Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2550/149197. It is the sixteenth in a series of sixteen items on the Persian Gulf.The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Captain Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf; and Hajee Jasseem [Ḥājjī Jāsim], British Agent at Bahrein [Bahrain].The item concerns the granting of a passport to a Banyan [Bania, also rendered as Buneaa in the item] called Dhurmoo [Dharmū, also rendered as Durmoo in the item], the consequences that this had in Bahrein, and the question of whether such passports should be issued in future.The item contains a table of contents (f 656), and the title page (f 655) contains the following references: Draft Number ‘358 - 1854’, ‘Collection No. 10 of No. 109 of 1853. Vol. 16’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’. The collection number was originally given as ‘5’ but this has been crossed out and replaced with ‘10’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 655 and terminates at f 660, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the bottom right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: the item also contains an original pagination sequence.
3. ‘File 24/4 MR. EL MAKKI (Swiss) & MR. QUISAN (French)’
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- Abstract: The file contains a small number of letters and telegrams as a result of enquiries made by the Political Agent, Bahrain, about Imperial Airways passengers Captain Henry Guisan, Swiss, born 1899, and his companion Mr El Makki or Mekki, French, born 1892. They had been refused permission to land at Bahrain on 6 June 1934, because they had no transit visas for Bahrain on their passports. In addition to a record of a conversation with Mr Mekki at Muharraq Aerodrome the following day, there are letters from the Mesopotamia Persia Corporation Ltd, Bahrain (local agents for Imperial Airways Ltd); the Superintendent of Police, Karachi, reporting his interview with the aircraft’s crew and two letters from the British Legation, Berne, to the Foreign Office, London reporting on Captain Guisan’s background. It was deduced that the most likely object of their trip was to find markets for Swiss war equipment.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 23; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional incomplete foliation sequence is also present in parallel between ff 2-23; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and can be found in the same position as the main sequence.
4. ‘File 24/6 KUWAIT PASSPORTS IN BOOK FORM’
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- Abstract: The file contains two documents only, a short letter of enquiry and a short interim letter of reply, dated 28 December 1936 and 26 January 1937 respectively. The Political Agent, Kuwait, mentions that the Kuwait authorities are planning to introduce a passport system. He asks the Political Agent, Bahrain, whether any useful information can be obtained from Mr Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, Adviser to the Bahrain Government, about the existing administration of passports in Bahrain. It is also mentioned that the Bahrain Government is planning to introduce a Bahrain Nationality Law.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 9; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 4-8; these numbers are written in pencil, but are not circled, and can be found in the same position as the main sequence.
5. ‘File 13/18 ILLEGAL TRAVELLING PERMITS ISSUED BY THE AMIR OF JAALAN, - BENI BU ALI, TO MUSCAT SUBJECTS.’
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- Abstract: The file contains correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire; the Political Agent, Bahrain; the Passport Officer, Bahrain; and the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain. The correspondence contains reports of three instances where Arab and Indian travellers used an illegal travel permit, certificate of identity or passport to travel to Bahrain and other countries in 1929, 1930 and 1949.The file also includes: an English translation of a travel permit in Arabic issued to a Muscat subject by Ali bin Abdulla [‘Alī bin ‘Abdullāh], Emir of the Beni Bu Ali [Banū Bū ‘Alī] tribe, Jaalan [Ja‘alan], Oman in 1929; a Hejaz and Nejd [Najd] Kingdom passport in Arabic issued to a British Indian subject travelling to Bahrain in 1949.Physical description: Foliation: numbered 1A-1C and 2-9 in pencil in the top right hand corner. The numbering starts at the front of the file, on the file cover (f 1A) and ends on the inside cover at the back of the file (f 8).
6. 'File 1/13 I Major Head:- Political. Sub:- Head:- Persian pretensions to Bahrain.'
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- Abstract: The file concerns Persian claims to Bahrain (also spelled Bahrein).The correspondence is mainly between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and the Political Agent, Bahrain. Other correspondents include the British Consular Agent, Lingah [Bandar-e Lengeh], and the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (Charles Dalrymple Belgrave). Enclosures to correspondence from the Political Resident include copies of correspondence from senior officials in the Foreign Office, the Government of India, the Colonial Office and the India Office, and other British officials in the region, including HBM's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Persia, Tehran (Sir Percy Lyham Loraine), the High Commissioner, Baghdad (Major-General Sir Percy Zachariah Cox), and the Consul at Shiraz (Herbert George Chick).The main topics covered in the papers are:reports by the Political Agent and Political Resident;discussion of the issue by the British Government and Government of India;the nature of the claims made by the Persian Government and the question of the British response to those claims;the issuing by the Persian authorities of passports and passes ( Ilm-o-Khabar) for Bahrain as though it were an inland port of Persia;use of British certificates of identity;anti-British agitation in Bahrain and support for a return to Persian rule;the need for the British Passport Office to make it clear to persons wishing to travel to Bahrain that they did not need a visa from the Persian Legation, London (folios 24-26);support for the Persian claim to Bahrain in the Persian press;proposal to give Bahrain the right to return a member to the Persian Madjliss [majlis] (folio 52);the question of British jurisdiction in Bahrain over foreigners;the history of Persian claims to sovereignty over Bahrain, including analysis of records held by the Government of India;attitude of the Bahrain ruling family;the treatment of Bahraini subjects in Persia, and the question of the protection of their interests by the British.The Arabic and Persian language content of the file consists of approximately ten letters, newspaper cuttings and associated items.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover and terminates at the back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is also present in parallel between ff 100-111; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and can be found in the same position as the main sequence. A third foliation sequence is also present in parallel between ff 7-116; these numbers are written in blue crayon, are circled, and can be found in the same position as the main sequence.A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
7. ‘Passport regulations recently promulgated by the Sublime Porte in the Pachalie of Bagdad’
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- Abstract: Enclosures no. 2-7 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Bombay [Mumbai] Castle, dated 28 February 1848. The enclosures are dated 23 October 1847-26 February 1848. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to new passport regulations in Bagdad [Baghdad] imposed by the Government of the Ottoman Empire. The primary correspondents are the Political Agent in Turkish Arabia and the Government of India.Physical description: 1 item (10 folios)
8. ‘File 12/14 Shipping. Miscellaneous accidents between dhows and steamers’
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- Abstract: The file comprises correspondence concerning three cases involving dhows, as follows:correspondence relating to a collision between a Bahrain-registered dhow and an Anglo-Iranian Oil Company tug at Khorramshahr in November 1943. Much of the follow-up correspondence concerns the seizure by the Iranian authorities of passports belonging to two Bahrainis who travelled to Khorramshahr to assist in affairs following the collision, and the Bahrain authorities’ efforts to have the passports returned. Principal correspondents in the case include: the Political Agent at Bahrain (Major Tom Hickinbotham); the British Consul at Khorramshahr; the Adviser to the Bahrain Government (Charles Dalrymple Belgrave) (ff 2-15);correspondence dated 1944 relating to an enquiry made by an Indian company, Kanayalal Deepchand Hinduja, seeking the whereabouts of their vessel, the Fathel Rahman, missing while travelling from Bombay to Basra, with the Political Agent at Bahrain reporting, after enquiries made with the Customs Director at Bahrain and the Residency Agent at Sharjah, that nothing is known of the vessel (ff 16-21);correspondence dated June 1949 relating to an incident taking place off the coast of Sharjah/Dubai, in which a dhow engine caught fire, resulting in the death of one crew member and the injury of another, the latter taken on board HMS Flamingofor medical care. The principal correspondent in this case is the Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf (Captain P Skelton) (ff 22-27).Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 30; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is also present in parallel between ff 2-20; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence.
9. ‘File 13/21 Private Aviation – Annex’
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- Abstract: The file contains telegrams and letters sent to and from the Political Agency in Bahrain, containing the details of private flights scheduled to touch down at Bahrain and/or Sharjah. Details of most incoming flights were sent by the RAF Commanding Officer at Bahrain to the Political Agency, with details passed on to the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain, Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, as appropriate. These telegrams contains details of the anticipated arrival of flights, flight numbers, flight itineraries, names of crew and passengers, and some detail of instruction upon arrival: reporting to the customs department, passport medical officer.The file’s office notes, written by the Political Agent, Captain Hugh Dunstan Rance, his Assistant and others, give indication of an incident in late 1946 when there were breakdowns in telephone communication between RAF officials, customs house officials and employees at the Political Agency, on the event of an aircraft arriving at Muharraq airfield (f 7), in turn provoking further discussion (summarised in typewritten notes on f 23) on how best to manage the flow of information to various parties (customs, quarantine) in the event of new arrivals at Bahrain in future.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover and terminates at the back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
10. ‘File 13/21 Flights by private aircraft in Persian Gulf’
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- Abstract: The file contains correspondence relating to the use by private aircraft of aerodromes along the Arab coast of the Gulf, chiefly of the RAF aerodrome at Muhurraq, Bahrain, but also the RAF base at Sharjah. The principal correspondents in the file are the Acting Political Agent in Bahrain, Captain Huge Dunstan Rance, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Lieutenant-Colonel Arnold Crawshaw Galloway, the Air Traffic Officer at RAF Bahrain, Flight-Lieutenant M S Scotney, and officials from the India Office and Foreign Office.The correspondence is in response to the arrival of an increasing number of private aircraft at Bahrain, most travelling from England to Australia, raising questions of: how best to ensure that the visas and passports for passengers and pilots are being adequately checked; whether private flights arriving at Bahrain are covered by the existing Air Navigation Regulations for Bahrain; and whether additional approval for private flights should be sought from the ruler of Bahrain. Included in the file is a letter from Rance to the RAF Commanding Officer (ff 18-19), with a list of the particulars of private flights required by the Political Agency, Bahrain Government and Quarantine Medical Officer, and a letter from Sheikh Salmān bin Ḥamad Āl Khalīfah, ruler of Bahrain (f 32), stating that he has no objection to private aviators landing at Bahrain, provided they possess the proper passports and visas. Later correspondence in the file concerns the means by which RAF officials communicate to the Agency, Government and Quarantine Officer on the arrival of private aircraft at Bahrain.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover, and terminates at the inside back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is also present in parallel between ff 2-50; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and can be found in the same position as the main sequence.
11. ‘File 28/1 W (Bahrain Defence) N.C.O. – ‘Iraq levy officer’
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- Abstract: The file comprises correspondence related to the recruitment of NCOs (Non-Commissioned Officers) from Iraq, to serve in the Bahrain Special Police Force. The principal correspondents in the file are the Political Agent at Bahrain, Major Reginald George Evelin William Alban and the Air Officer Commanding at Habbaniyah in Iraq.The file includes:correspondence between India Office, Air Ministry and Government of India officials, covering the period December 1939 to March 1940, on the recommended rates of pay and terms for Majors in the Indian Army, and for NCOs serving in India, in order to establish the appropriate rates of pay for their employment in Bahrain (ff 9-21);a recommendation from the British Embassy at Baghdad for the provision of an officer from the Iraq Levies for the Special Police Force in Bahrain (ff 27-32);correspondence relating to the appointment of Major A C Byard as Defence Officer for the Persian Gulf, including a letter from Air Headquarters, dated 8 June 1940, outlining the Defence Officer’s duties and responsibilities (ff 42-44);the Political Agent’s visit to Air Headquarters in Iraq in June 1940, to assist in the process of recruitment for the Bahrain defence force. A report of his visit, sent to the Political Resident is included in the file (ff 37-38, ff 45-47);recommendations for the appointment of an Alwan officer from Iraq, and their eventual despatch to Bahrain, after difficulties in obtaining a passport;in May 1940, Major Byard’s, and other British officials’ concerns over the attitude of the Iraqi NCOs in Bahrain, in light of hostilities in Iraq, and Government decision to return the Iraqi NCOs to Iraq (ff 74-85).Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the back cover with 94; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. Three additional foliation sequences are also present in parallel between ff 2-73, ff 2-91, and ff 92-94 respectively; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence.
12. 'File 29/7 I Consular: Passport and Visa Regulations (governing Bahrain, Muscat, Kuwait and other Shaikhdoms)'
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- Abstract: This file contains correspondence and documents related to passport and visa regulations in the various Shaikhdoms of the Gulf, primarily in Bahrain, Kuwait and Muscat.The majority of the correspondence is between Charles Belgrave, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain; the Political Agency in Bahrain; the Political Residency in Bushire and other British officials, both in the region and in London.The file also contains a limited amount of correspondence in Arabic, including letters to the Political Agency in Bahrain from Shaikh ‘Abdullāh bin Jāsim, the Emir of Qatar.On folios 134-135, the file contains a Foreign Office memorandum entitled 'Travel Documents for Persons proceeding to, and for Natives of, Certain British Protectorates and Certain Arab States'.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 292; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 9-260; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence.
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