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'File 53/83 I (D 99) Kuwait-Iraq Smuggling' [52r] (118/716)
The record is made up of 1 volume (355 folios). It was created in 11 Jan 1933-29 May 1934. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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than not, paid agents of merchants in the towns along the
Eupherates, sit quiet in camp and make their purchases
througih the medium of the Bedouin with whom they are living
These latter can he seen in droves coming into the town
daily, and marching back to their camps with fully loaded
cameIs♦ If one stops them and asks where the stuff is
going to, they invariably reply "for ourselves and our
friends, we are engaged in , musabilah T : Iraq is too
expensive for us to-day, and we are forced to cone and
buy our daily needs fran. Kuwait".
Ihese Dhafir and Shammar purchasers are of course
run, by means known to the Bedouin only across to their
brethern in IRAQ, and then slowly and surely and in small
amounts, find their way up to the Supherates towns. Ori
ginal bales boxes etc. are carefully broken and rep^aq/ed
into smaller parcels before the Supherates is reached,
(f) It may be of interest to mention here that Haji
Abdulla Williamson at one time in our intelligence service
used before the war to run camels and contraband from
Kuwait to Damascus by the desert route. During the Munta-
fik rebellion against the Turks on the Eupherates, he ran
rifles and ammunition from Muscat to the rebels, -e used
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to land his cargoes on the Ha^ia coast, south of ohe Kuwait
Neutral Zone, convey them past Subaihiyeh and Jahara and
across the Batin upto the Supherates and employed the
Dhafir, Shammar and Ajman Bedouin for the purpose as
described in (e) above. Haji Abdulla, with whom I have
discussed the contraband question, has expressed his en
tire agreement with the contents of this ,T lIote tT .
T Y This contraband problem, I fear, is not going
to be an easy one'for IRAQ to handle, nor would the Kuwait
authorities find it any easier to tackle, however willing
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This file contains correspondence regarding alleged smuggling activities from Kuwait into Iraq. Primarily, the file contains internal correspondence between British officials but it also includes correspondence between British officials (primarily Harold Richard Patrick Dickson, the British Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. in Kuwait) and Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ, the ruler of Kuwait as well as correspondence between British officials and the Government of Iraq.
The majority of the correspondence discusses two incidents, in April and October 1933 respectively, in which Iraqi Customs Authorities attacked Kuwaiti sailing vessels, both of the incidents resulted in the death and injury of Kuwaiti subjects.
The file contains the following maps:
- Rough sketch of Kuwait-Iraq maritime frontier to illustrate the October 1933 incident (f 121)
- Two rough sketch maps showing Iraq's territorial water boundary (f 148 + f 149)
- Two rough sketch maps showing the official frontier lines of Kuwait (f 312 + f 320A)
- Copy of a tracing of Warba Island and its vicinity made by HMS Sphynx in 1903 (f 321).
The file contains a detailed note entitled 'On the contraband problem of Iraq with her neighbours, and in particular how it affects Kuwait' (ff 45-55) and a report on the supply of drinking water in Kuwait (ff 140-148) both of which were written by Dickson, the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. in Kuwait.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (355 folios)
- Arrangement
File is arranged in chronological order, from earliest at beginning of the file to most recent at end.
Serial numbers in red crayon refer to entries in the notes at the rear of the file.
- Physical characteristics
Condition: A bound correspondence volume.
Foliation: The file's foliation is written in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. The foliation sequence, which should be used for referencing, begins with the first item of correspondence, on number 1, and ends on the last folio with text, on number 349.
The file contains the following foliation errors: f 147 is followed by f 147A; f 320 is followed by f 320A and the following omissions: ff 252-256. Note: f 148 and f 149 are stored in an envelope which is attached to f 147A; f 320A and f 321 are stored in an envelope which is attached to f 320.
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- IOR/R/15/1/531
- Title
- 'File 53/83 I (D 99) Kuwait-Iraq Smuggling'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:iv-v, 1r:120v, 122r:147v, 147ar:147av, 150r:248r, 250v, 248v:250r, 251r:251v, 257r:270v, 273r, 271r:272v, 273v:311v, 313r:320v, 322r:349v, v-r:viii-v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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