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Trucial Coast by tho distribution of well got-up
literature. They have also shown an interest in the
health and highway statistics of the Gulf, and the
Consul regularly calls at this Agency to collect the
Bahrain Health Bulletins, in October at the instance
of tho State Department Mr. Hart asked Messrs. Petroleum
Concessions Limited for information regarding their
current programme and recent oil developments and ho
was*informed that under their concession P.C.L. could
not do this.

28. VISITORS.
(i) on the 17th January the Right Reverend V7.H.
Stewart, Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem, arrived by B.O.A.C.
'plane and left for 'Iraq by air on the 21st. He stayed
with the political Agent during his visit. He held ser­
vices at Awali and Muharraq.
(ii) On the 22nd January senator James M. Tunnell and
Congressmen William E. Knowland and George Meader, members
of a special sub-committee investigating a U.S.A. National
Defence programme, arrived in Bahrain by U.S.A.T.C. air­
craft and left for Dhahran the same day.
(ill) Viscount Knollys, Chairman of the British Overseas
Airways corporation, accompanied by Lady Knollys, Air
Commodore Brackley, and Group/Captain F.W. Winterbotham,
C.B.E., passed through Bahrain on the 18th February on their
way* to India.
(iv) in April Shaikh Ali bin Abdulla bin Qasim Al Thani,
eldest son of the Ruler of Qatar, accompanied by his son
Shaikh Jasim bin Ali, came zo Bahrain for medical treatment
at the Mission Hospital. They returned to Qatar in May.

(v) On the 31st of May Shaikh Mohammed bin Saqr, brother
of the Ruler of Sharjah, accompanied by his son Khalid,
arrived by air for medical treatment in Bahrain. The shaikh
complained of pain in the knees, but it taxed the skill of
all the Bahrain doctors to find something the matter with
him. Shaikh Salman presented him with a sura of money and
his son Khalid with a filly. They returned to Sharjah on
the 13th of June.
June
(vi) On the 17th/Mr. Max Weston Thornburg, a former
Vice-president of the Bahrain petroleum company, arrived
by air from Basrah. He left for Riyadh via Dhahran on the
1st July in the.launch of Shaikh Salman, which was presented
to the Shaikh by BAPCO at the time of ur. Thornburg'3 Vice-
Presidentship. He returned on the 9th. Mr. Thornburg left
Bahrain the following day on a visit to Basrah, Baghdad and
Beirut en route to the United Kingdom and the U.S.A.
Mr. Thornburg had no connections with BAPCO nor with its
parent company the California Standard Oil Company, who had
instructed* the Chief Local Representative to inform the
political Agent that Hr. Thornburg's visit was quite inde­
pendent of their business. The political Agent understood
Mr. Thornburg to say that he was on the Board of the Beirut
American University,
" (vii) On the 24th June Lord Burghley, K.C.M.G., a member
of the Board of Directors of the British Overseas Airways
/Corporation*«•