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D.O. No. C/666-l.b/5 Dated the 27th October 1938*
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In my telegram No. 160 dated the 13th October 1938
I indicated that there was some recrudescence of agitation
in Bahrain and promiaed a report, I am afraid that this
report has been delayed owing to my preoccupation with
Dubai affairs and with the question of the Bahrain Unallotted

Area.
2. So far we are only at the beginning of agitation,

and at present it is being directed mainly against the
Bahrain Courts (in particular the Shia Shera Court), and
at the Education Policy of the State. As usual the Manama

section of the Daharana are particularly active, led by
Ivlohsin and Mohammad Ali A1 Tajir, Said bin Say id Khalaf,
Abdu Ali Alev/at, Mansur al Areyeth, Say id Ahmad Alawi, and
most dangerous of all, the ex Shia Qadhi Shaikh Abdullah.

The Arabs (or Sunnis) chiefly implicated are Ali bin Abdullah
Abul of Muharraq, Ibrahim bin Jodr of Muharraq, Said bin
Ali
Shamlan, Mohammad bin Khalifah al Fadhal and Mohammad al
Fadhal, Khalil Moyad, and some of the Kanoos. Most of these

latter have personal grievances, including the supreme
grievance of having at one time or another been detected
in some particularly disgraceful villainy.
3. Although it would be wrong to suggest that there is
any immediate danger of the agitation becoming so violent

that it might involve revclutj.onary changes in the form
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Honourable Lieutenant-Colonel
Sir Trenchard Fowle, Y.C.I.E,, C.D.E.,
Politic*;! Resident in the Persian Gulf,
Bushire.