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parcels - one on tho Causeway to Muharrqq, one at
Rsdm al Kowary (Wigley Bridge) on tho road to Awali, and

one in the bazaar covering the approach to tho Shiito
Wa'tarns. Those three bodies had wireless Jeeps and
communication w^th tho Fort seemed to bo good* The
Muharraq mob was tho principal danger* Tho bridge would
havq boon opened9 but tho man who pporates the mechanism

could not bo found* The Chief of police appealed to
the Assistant State Engineer, Hr .Hudson, who wqq prepared
to do his best to open it, but from the rather vague
messages coming ovor the wireless from Inspector Salman

on the Causewoy, I gathered that the bridge was not in
fact opened* However the Muharraq mob did not come ini
information recoived lator suggests that this was due in

part to Inspector Salman's presence on the Causeway and
in part to 3halkh Abdullah bin Esa, who did his boat to
calm the oxclted Sunnites by sending scouts into Manama
to return and report that all was quiet there* Two
othor membors of the Ruling Family, Sholks All bln Khalifah

and All bin Mohamed, whose onerglos seem hitherto to have
been devoted exclusively to the finding of alcohol,
distinguished themselves rather surprisingly as pacifiers
at this point.
? * I
14. Sir Charles Belgrave had meanwhile been out to the
Ruler's "hunting lodge" in the south, where His Highness
hod hoped to spend a quiet weok-end and hod persuaded him
to return. I thought it would hove done some good if His

Highness could have toured the town himself, but the
Adviser thought he would be unwilling to do so et this
stage. While tho Advisor, the Chief of Police, the

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