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'File 53/83 I (D 99) Kuwait-Iraq Smuggling' [3r] (20/716)
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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COKITIDENTlilL, Political
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
, Kuwait.
I 1 • /< Dated the 8th March 1933.
U / : r/p/V'O
No.47.
n
From
Lt.-Colonel H.R.P.Dickson, C^I.E.^I.A.,
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.
, Kuwait;
To
] Tlle Hon'ble tlB Political Pvesident
/^7 ..-.1 in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
,
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B u s h i r e •
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Sir ,
I have the honour to acknowledge your letter
No.l99-S, dated the 3rd March 19 33 with enclosures.
2. In connection with the latter I would refer
a I you to the last enclosure naciely D»0.3461/461/91 , dated
" 7E/2/33
Baghdad the 11th Januaiy 1933 from Sir Francis Eumphreys
to G.W.Rendel, Ssc^o ,C.M.G., of the Foreign Office.
3. In the last five lines on page 1 of this let
ter Sir Francis Humphreys writes as follows:-
rt The Director of Customs recently told me that
he estimated that more than £60,000 worth of
goods had been snuggled into IRAQ, from Kuwait
during the past year and that a member of his
Staff had been shot dead in an affray with
Kuwaiti smugglers' 1 .
4. With the very greatest diffidence and with
all respect I venture to suggest that the Director of
Customs is under a misapprehension both as regards (a)
the value of goods snuggled from Kuwait into IRAQ; and
(b) as regarding the story that a member of his staff
had been shot dead in an affray with Kuwaiti smugglers,
and I think I shauld be lacking in my duty were I not
to endeavour to correct 4he statement.
5. As regards (a) above: I have throughout 1932
and in the three previous years that I have been in
Kuwait, taken a special interest in this question of
alleged * snuggling* into IRAQ, and have over and over
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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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- 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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