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'File 53/83 I (D 99) Kuwait-Iraq Smuggling' [109r] (232/716)
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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who brought the boat baol: to Kuwait; seeing that apart from
their evidence and that of the two wounded men, which he also
took down, no other Kuwaiti eye witnesses to the attack exist.
4, The Lhaikh as you will observe clearly suggests
that the T Iraq version of the incident has been invented to
enable the Director of Justoms to exonerate his subordinates.
His Hxce'lenc^ also lakes ;ood play of the fct that if the
Fao Customs authorities are deceitful enough to send their
launches to Liaschan Island, 20 miles from Iraq territory,
and well within ICuv/ait waters - see my confidential Ho.245
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dated l*kth October 193S - they are capable of doing anything
shady, let alone concocting a story like their present one,
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n. Hy views a 'e, and have been able to collect no fresh
evidence to make me alter then, that the original Kuwait
story of the attack was a simple and straightforward one, and
far more likely to be the true version than the complicated
and rather wonderful one out forward by the Director of
Customs, and two months £ "ter the incident took place.
Their story as put forward, that one armed launch,
whose first volley had knocked out 4 out of a crew of si six
could not tackle a snail boat defended by 2 survivots, but
must needs send "or another armed launch from Sco to come
to their assist; nee, does not ring true.
6, I had occasion to remark in my confidential des-
T3a uch i.o. . , dated the 11th October 1933; one would have
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liked to see the 'Iraq .rovernment do the honourable thing and
^ ' admit excess of zeel on the part of their preventive Police,
Kuwait would have reacted imnediately and generously, I am
very sure.
I have the honour to be,
oir,
iour most obedient servant,
^t.-Colonel,
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
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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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