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i\ SV11^ pr* Thoms mid the Reverend G. D. Van Peursem proceeded to
Darin on the 9th May and returned on the 14th.
(riii) In July Iiis Majesty King Bin Sa’ud asked for medical help for
women and a party consisting of Dr. and Mrs. Dame, Mrs. Van Pcursem, Miss
(i. Davis and live compounders and servants loft for Riyadh on the 2Cth July.
The patient for whom they had been called was a Wife of the King and another
lady of the Royal household. The party returned to Bahrain on the 24th
October. While in Riyadh they performed 130 operations, treated 3,207 cases
and received 221 out-calls.
23. Judicial.—The total number of Civil Suits instituted was one thousand
nine hundred and forty-one as compared with two thousand four and seventy-
one instituted during 1032 and the total number of criminal suits was four
hundred and seventy-two as compared with four hundred and forty-five for the
previous year.
(ii) The total number of petitions registered amounted to two thousand
three hundred and fifty-three and Insolvency cases to four.
'{Hi) One murder case was tried in which the accused was a subject of
Sa’udi Arabia. He was found guilty and sentenced to death. The sentence was
confirmed by the Governor Gcucral-in-CounciL and the execution was carried out
in Bahrain.
(iv) The decrease in the number of Civil Suits instituted is due to the
prevailing depression.
24. Visits of Government Officials and others.—(i) The Honourable Lieute­
nant-Colonel T. C. W. Fowle, C.B.E., Political Resident in the Persian Gulf,
visited Bahrain on the Gth February and landed for the day on the 12th March.
He again visited Bahrain from the 11th November to the 2Gth.
(ii) Air Commodore A. D. Cunningham, C.B., Chief of the Staff, British
Forces in ’Iraq, arrived on the 9th February.
(iii) Colonel J. F. Turner, D.S.O., Director of Works in the Air Ministry,
visited Bahrain on the 23rd March.
(iv) Air-Vice Marshall C. S. Burnett, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., Air Officer Com­
manding, British Forces in ’Iraq, arrived on the 9th May. He again visited
Bahrain on the 24th September and 16th November.
(a) Her Excellency Lady Willingdon passed through by Imperial Airways’
west bound aeroplane on the 15th June. She was met at the aerodrome by the
Political Agent.
(vi) Captain (now Major) C. G. Prior, lately Political Agent, Bahrain,
passed through by the cast bound aeroplane on the 8th June.
(vii) Major J. J. Rooney, I.M.S., Residency Surgeon, Bushirc, arrived on
a visit of inspection on the 2nd August.
(viii) Major C. E. U. Bremner, M.C., Political Agent, Muscat, arrived on
the 9th November to meet the Honourable the Political Resident.
(ix) Captain D. E. Wallace, M.C., Civil Lord of the Admiralty, passed
through on the west bound aeroplane on the 16th November. He was met at the
aerodrome by the Political Agent.
(x) Mr. B. C. II. Cross, Area Manager, Near East Area, Imperial Airways
Limited, arrived on the 17th January and loft on the 20th.
(xi) Mr. M. E. Lombardi (a citizen of the United States of America), a
Director of The Bahrain Petroleum Company, Limited, arrived on the 2nd
March.
(xii) Mr. E. W. Janson, Chairman of the Eastern and General Syndicate,
Limited, arrived on the 2nd March.
(xiii) His Excellency Shaikh Sir Ahmad bin Jabir, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., Ruler
of Kuwait, arrived on the 201 Ii June and left on the 1st July.
(xiv) Shaikh Sultan bin Saqar, Ruler of Sharjah, arrived on the 29tli Octo­
ber and left on the 1st November.
25. Sa’itdi Arabia.—(i) ITasa has been further drained of its resources by
the imposition of a number of forced loans and taxation has reduced the people
to a dreadful state of misery. A number of people have fled to Bahrain,
smuggling their women out dressed ns men.