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pinqo for ur# nogera ccd layaolf comlotsd of oineral water

being flora frca Iraq to Sharjah*
0. rdw.catlon*
Considerable development took plaao undor tho aogis
of tho Britioh Counoll both in KUvjait nnl Bahrain and pro-

poaedo for a Cairo Hootol rrero madQo Tho E^ptian toaohoro
on the whole turned out very Troll* and minded their buainooa
and ooohowod local politico*
6* good SUppliOOo
Groat tordchip and malnutrition continued to be

oauoad by tha laok of rioo ani repreoentationo were oado
msuoacatfully for tho oupply of Egyptian or Indian rio«»
It bad apparently boon aotabliuhcd that S^ptica and Indica

rice nuot bo bupplied to rubber workers in Coy Ion , tut for
some roaaon it could not bo cede available to Arab oil rarkera
in Bahrain*
The arrangement a cade in 1943 at tho instance of the
Uinio try of Food for tho cupply of dateo to tho Peroion Gulf

Shaiklxlone through the forcer^ Agcnto* iresoro. Andrew woir
end Company* who ware given tho monopoly of the export of
date a from Ira^ proved a complete failure* causing much

hardship in tho Ohaikhdona • The failure raa* in tho main*
due to tho high prloa ckurgad* tho Inability of tho Agon to
to cupply tho required ^uantitieo* their Hoondftloua inactivity
deepito the high rate of Cdaloaioa charged by thers, and tho

inability of tho 2ra^ Government to control emugglins* Th3
roeult pao that at tho beginning of 1944 it raa found
ncoccmry to Inform tho Stnifcfcdcnd that they rare umder no

obligation to adhere to tho undertaking they hxd been asked
to give9 in order to acsiot tho cohcso, to refrain frca
independent pur&ace* cring to the opexronoo late? of
•frco« datop cn tho ortot tho GkaDOdomp eventually tad

difficulty in dlepocing ef ouch. gtooU a? high priced tatoo
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