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PistinRuished visitors. The Hon'ble the Political

Resident in the Persian Gulf visited Bahrain several
times during the year and on 4th Jan. 1931 he attended

a Durbar which was held at the Palace by H. E. Shaikh
Hamad on the occasion of the presentation of the Kaiser-
irHind medal to Dr. R.D.Holmes.
In December H.M.S.tTEmeraldrT visited Bahrain and

remained for several day3 and the usual official visits
were exchanged. On the last day of her stay a most
tragic accident ocurred; the ship’s aeroplane while

giving a display to a number of local Arabs, including
boys from the Government schools, crashed in the sea
and the pilot Lieut. Heinemann, was killed, He was

buried in the Christian cemetery in Bahrain on the
following day.
Sir Philip Sassoon, Under Secretary of State for

Air, and the British Minister in Persia paid short
unofficial visits to Bahrain.
Shaikh Ahmad bin Jabr, the Ruler of Kuwait paid
three visits to Bahrain,on the last occasion he

accompanied the Political Resident and attended the
Durbar.
Innumerable other Arab chiefs, mostly frcm Oman,

came to Bahrain during the year including the following;
Shaikh Abdulla bin Jasim, Ruler of Qatar, Shaikhs Said
and Juma sons of Maktoom of Dubai.
Prince Ahmed, grandson of the late Sultan Abdul

Aziz of Turkey, accompanied by Jamaal Pasha, who was
at one time a well known Turkish General and took part
in the Senussi campaign in 1915, were also entertained
by E. E. Shaikh Hamad while making a tour of the Persian

Gulf.