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'File 53/57 I (D 35) Jariyah [Jahra] Affair and Boundary Dispute between Bin Saud and Shaikh of Kuwait' [57r] (126/660)
The record is made up of 1 volume (328 folios). It was created in 18 Apr 1920-16 Nov 1921. 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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CONFIDENTIAL. 53jl
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59 G, 1 1 Alu. J ^ j I Political A ^enoy, Kuwait.
July 1920*
IV.
So the Oiyil Oo ilsaioner,
. BAGHDAD,
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Jq- yj^O
Referfirxas rjj tvXvtvmHo. fi 0, dated the 13th July '920 I
1 enoloae herewith 3liaildi Salia'o letter of the J2feh inat in
original, tosether with a tranalatico. It la in reply to a letter
of aine, Ho, 520 of the loth, inst., in nhioh I eabodied the aain
points of your tels ^raa No. 7263, hut, of oouras, oaitting all
reference to your opinion that the probable result of nesotiatiofw
would be that xiis territoS^ ^ould be restricted to a sisaller 25rea
than that Bivm by tJio Anelo -turidLah Oonverition.
I had a Ions interview with hin on the I th., and care
fully explained the various points to hin in detail. He ma greatly
diatreased over the An^lo-Turkish Convention, find kept repeating
over and over aQain that Captain MoOollua had ahown hia this
frontier on a aap and told hia definitely that it was his for all
| time. He talked wildly of eoins to war with Ibn Sa'ud if he would I
| not order Faiaal a-l -Dawish to M|» restitution, aa, he aaid, he |!
l.\\ 00UW mtln 1Xonour :LeaV9 hiB ^ ^ bands. He said he felt
^ atrons enoush to beat Ibn fla'ud, and opened his shirt and showed
; ae a wound on hia chest - presuaably to iapreas upon ae that he
■ was not frightened of mr. Aa he was quite incapable of understand*
reason at,the tiae. 1 left to to think over ^ latter, which he " i
had not as yat seen.
[ ^ 1 aaW Mr3 on the ' 2th - - toe date on Trtiioh he wrote
the letter and he was then considerably calaer and less thiratinc
■ for war. He still kept harpinc on the ^glo -Turlcish Convention,
however, and on the ac.uraacea that it v^s still TO ua which he
| aays, he received froa Captain McColm. ; and repeated that he could |
not .ith honour leave his -^lal" ia nawish' 0 handa mil the affair !
was -inally settled by nesotiation. He said that h-
^ tod | aoooi*cllB^Xy
written a friendly letter to Ibn Sa'ud.
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This file contains correspondence regarding the conflict between Shaikh Sālim al-Mubārak Āl Ṣabāḥ of Kuwait and Abdul Aziz ibn Abdulrahman ibn Faisal Al Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd (Ibn Saud)] of Nejd [Najd].
As well as correspondence between British officials on this topic, the file contains a large number of translations of correspondence between Ibn Saud and 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 Bahrain and Shaikh Sālim and 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. The file also contains translations of letters from Ibn Saud to various tribal leaders and translations of correspondence between Ibn Saud and Shaikh Sālim. The original copy of a letter (and a number of enclosures) sent by Shaikh Sālim to 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 in September 1920 is contained in the file on folios 118-122.
The file contains an account of the Battle of Jahra (between the forces of Kuwait and Nejd) authored by James Carmichael More, 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 in October 1920 (ff. 170-174).
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- 1 volume (328 folios)
- Arrangement
File is arranged in chronological order, from earliest at beginning of the file to most recent at end.
An index of topics discussed in the file is contained on folio 1.
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Condition: A bound correspondence volume, some its pages have come unbound.
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. It begins with the first item of correspondence, on number 1, and ends on the last folio with text, on number 319. The file contains the following foliation errors: f 125 is followed by f 125A; f 308 is followed by ff 308A-B and f 284 is omitted.
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- 'File 53/57 I (D 35) Jariyah [Jahra] Affair and Boundary Dispute between Bin Saud and Shaikh of Kuwait'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 1r:1v, 1ar:1av, 2r:117v, 122v:125v, 125ar:125av, 126r:283v, 285r:308v, 308ar:308bv, 309r:319v, iii-r:iv-v, back-i
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