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'File 53/57 I (D 35) Jariyah [Jahra] Affair and Boundary Dispute between Bin Saud and Shaikh of Kuwait' [172r] (358/660)
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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hlaself, tout that He would dlaouss the matter with Dawlsh. li®
then withdrew and went off towards Dawlsh'a tent, which was to the
north-west of the village. (The original report that the Ilchwan
agreed to return their hooty is untrue). Shortly after this the
Ilchwan moved off, taking everythins with them, and without any
further fighting. They narohed three hours that day and halted, and
the following day moved on to Subalhiyah, whore they still are.
On tiie 14th October Dawlsh sent in a letter to Shaikh Sails
asking thav >lilal al-Mutairi, now one of the biggest merchants in
Kuwait, should be sent out to Subaihiyah to treat with hia regarding
a settlement of the dispute, She Shaikh refused and replied that if
Dawlsh wantod to discuss anything with hia, he should send one of
the Dushan fsally into Kuwait, The messenger who brought this letter
was a Kuwait slave, who was captured at Haradh, near Jariyah, in May
and was given hia life on condition that he Joined the Ikhwan,
It is difficult to form an accurate estimate of the number of
Ikhwan Involved. From the early reports received in Kuwait I put
the number at about 1400, but after personally visiting Jahrah and
seeing the dead on tha ground and the graves of those buried, I sea
that there must have been far more, and think there cannot have
been less th&n 3000, I estimate their killed alone at Shaikh
Salim and others who were present put their number at 4 000, usually
saying that there were four bairaqs r with a thousand each,
Dae messenger, referred to above, stated while in Kuwait that they
originally numbered 4o«o, of whoa between 70© and 800 ware killed
at Jahrah and over 6eo severely wounded, of which latter quite half
died before they reached Subaihiyah, On reaching Subaihiyah their
effective strength was not more than «500, but they found 300 re.
inforcements awaiting them there, and had subsequently been Joined
by 2oo more. These latter, camel riders, he described as coming
baok"froa the north!!
£he Kuwait force is said to have only lost about killed
very few of whom were actual inhabitants of Kuwait, This a-wn
number in comparison with the Ikhwan's losses, is due to the fact
that the Ikhwan attacked across the open in masses and showed the
aost utter disregard for their am safety.
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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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