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(vii) Anti-Locust Mission.
in January members of an Anti-Locust Delegation
organised by the Government of India arrived at Sharjah
under the leadership of Mr. Rashid Ahmad to operate on the
TTucial coast. Mr. Moore, Administrative Officer of the
Middle East Anti-Locust Unit arrived at Sharjah on the 28th
January and handed over MEALU transport and equipment to
the Indian Delegation. The Delegation carried out recon­
naissance tours in Ajman, Umm al Qaiwain, Ras al Khaimah
and Abu Dhabi, but found no locusts. After visiting Muscat
they returned to Sharjah whence they left for India on the
8th June handing over their vehicles to the R.A.F. authorities.
(v'iii) Tours.
The Hon'ble Sir Geoffrey prior, K.C.I.E., Poli­
tical Resident in the Persian Gulf, arrived at Ras al
Khaimah on the 11th March in L.T. "Nearchus" and toured the
Trucial Coast accompanied by Lt-Col. A.C. Galloway, C.I.E.,
O.B.E., Political Agent, Bahrain. After visiting Sharjah,
Abu Dhabi and Dubai they returned to Bahrain by air on the
13 th.
Lt-Col. A.C. Galloway, C.I.E., O.B.E., Political
Agent, Bahrain, toured the Trucial Coast from the 24th to
the 27th January, from the 8th to the 13th March, and from
the 30th April to the 9th May, 1946.
Captain H.D.H. Ranee, Assistant political Agent,
Bahrain, toured the Trucial coast from the 21st to the 23rd
of Kay.

Major A.L. Greenway, M.B.E., Residency Surgeon,
Eushire, visited Dubai on the 21st of November.
On the 7th December wing/comcander P.R.M. Williams,
Air Staff Liaison officer, Bahrain, arrived at Sharjah, He
returned to Bahrain ccifck on the 15th after calling on the
Shaikhs of Sharjah, Dubai, Ras al Khaimah, Ajznan and Umm al
Qaiwain.

(ix) Medical.
No epidemic of any kind was reported during the
year. Malaria was endemic and was the cause of much of the
general ill-health of the population. The most prevalent
diseases were dysentery, venereal and eye diseases and
sloughing ulcers.

Muhammad Yasin, in charge dispensary, Trucial
Coast, Dubai, proceeded on leave to India on the 19th of
June, and returned on the 11th of August.
(x) Royal ‘Air Force.

On the night of March 6th an R.A.F. askari
guarding the cable line outside the R.A.F. camp at Sharjah
fired at a jeep carrying R.A.F. Military police and Levies
on patrol duty. The one shot fired grazed the arm of one
British Military policeman, and entered the forearm of
another, but fortunately without wounding him seriously.

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