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8. During the rest of the day the police patrolled the
town and guards were put on all Jewish houses in the bazaar
area. A proclamation was issued forbidding more than five
people to assemble together and a curfew was imposed from
sunset, Both these measures were effectively adhered to.
During Thursday afternoon and on Friday quantities of stolen
property was recovered from Houses in Manamah and from the
outskirts of the town. In many cases the people in possession
of the property we re women. On Saturday His Highness issued
a proclamation forbidding all unauthorised demonstrations.

9. The responsibility for the riot is being ascribed
locally to Egyptian schoolmasters, the rough Persian element
in the town, and the organisers of the demons ration. In
this case no responsibility can be attached to the Egyptians
who did what they could to prevent their boys going out and
who in some cases apparently tried to help some of the Jews
during the trouble. The majority and the most active of the
looters were undoubtedly Persians, many of them were Tanga-
seeris who are notorious thieves and tough men as well,
The organisers of the demonstration certainly did not con­
template a riot with loss of life and damage to people and
property when they planned their demonstrations. If they
had not led the procession to the Jewish synagogue it is
possible that the disorder would not have occurred. In my
opinion and the opinion of many reputable Arabs the blame
for this incident lies on the group of young Holi Arabs from
Muharraq who took it upon themselves to organise the demon­
strations.
Nationalities of persons arrested other than Bahrain
subjects:-

Persinas 25 Saudi Arabs 10
Omanis 8 Bal uch 2
Iraqi 2 Indian Moslem 1
Qattari 1 49.

Notes on persons chiefly concerned in organising denion-
: strations:-
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1.

from a Visit to Cairo where hpeS’ He has rece"tly returned
Chirawi, an ex-schoolmaster. " accompanied by Mohomed Jasim

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