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'File 2/2 I. Kuwait-Iraq Smuggling' [69r] (142/444)
The record is made up of 1 volume (218 folios). It was created in 26 Feb 1933-2 Feb 1934. It was written in English and Arabic. 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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- 9 - ^ : y
willing they he to cooperate. This for the simple reason
that Kuwait
(a) is looked upon by all Bedouin of north east
Arabia as their natural home and market for fill
their wants and it is the policy of Kumit to
encourage this feeling inspite of Bin Baud’s
Blockade;
(b) Kuwait would to-day die a natural death
if this one remaining outlet for her desert trade
were denied her;
(o) Any attempt of the Shaikh to control what the
Bedouin bought or took out would be playing direct
ly into the hands of Bin Baud, and would be a dead
ly blow to his prestige.
Furthermore it would be quite impossible for anyone in Kuwait
to say what was legitimate or what illegitimate trade where
the desert Arab was concerned. They come from the North,
South, and West of the State, and it is not the shopkeepers
concern to aks where their stuff goes, nor indeed would
our friend of the Desert say where he intended to take his
purchases for fear lest one of Bin Baud’s spies in the town r
reported his movements to A1 Bagaawi, Bin Saud’s Chief \
Blockade Officer.
Nor must it be forgotten that the Shaikh of Kuwait,
does all in his power to encourage trade with the desert
tribes in the hopes that all goods will eventually find
their way to Nejd, and so annoy Bin Saud.
Undoubtedly the one and only really effective or
satisfactory method for Iraq to adopt will, in the long run,
be to reduce her customs duties on all imports to the lowest
possible figure that she can afford, this as a matter of
policy . and above all to give up the idea entirely of treat
ing her Customs Department as a revenue producing concern.
IRAQ, is surrounded by long, lonely and ftifficult
frontiers, all eminently aiited to the professional contra
band runners methods. If she maintains her present very
hi$i import duties, as she is trying to do, she will have
to employ large numbers of preventive police, whose upkeep
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The volume contains correspondence related to Kuwait-Iraq smuggling. British officials discuss the Iraqi Government’s proposal to the Kuwaiti Government for cooperation to help control smuggling between the two countries. They also discuss the conditions under which permission is given to ship goods between the two countries, the fines that are to be imposed on the boats charged with smuggling, and monitoring the territorial waters, Shat al-Arab in particular.
The volume also contains correspondence related to the firing on and seizure of a Kuwaiti jollyboat by a Fao customs launch near Bubiyan Island, and the seizure of three Iraqi ballams (small boats) by the Kuwaiti customs authorities.The volume also contains a confidential report prepared by 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 under the title ‘Kuwait note on the contraband problem of Iraq with her neighbours and in particular how it affects Kuwait’.
The main correspondents in the volume are the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. , Kuwait, the Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. , Bushire, the British Embassy, Baghdad, the Iraqi Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Mutassarif of Basra Liwa, the Hakim of Kuwait as well as Customs departments in Kuwait and Iraq.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (218 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 220; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
Additional foliation sequences are present in parallel between ff 4-215; these numbers are also written in pencil, but, where circled, are crossed through.
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- IOR/R/15/5/128
- Title
- 'File 2/2 I. Kuwait-Iraq Smuggling'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:20v, 24r, 25r:26v, 28r:28v, 30r:30v, 32r:32v, 34r:34v, 36r:36v, 39r:50v, 53r:54v, 60r:71v, 80r, 82r:105v, 107r:107v, 109r, 110r, 111r:119v, 123r:124v, 127r:133v, 138r:139v, 143r:148v, 150r:154v, 157r:158v, 161r:165r, 166r, 167r:173v, 177r:219v, 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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