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'File 53/32 V (D 128) Kuwait Miscellaneous' [17r] (46/474)
The record is made up of 1 volume (235 folios). It was created in 29 May 1934-5 May 1937. 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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4. One thing is pretty certain, in Bedouin Arabia
a whole host of terms are used for natural features such
as dry water courses, hills, depressions, flat open
spaces without vegetation, pehhly ground, rocky ground,
etc., etc., which are either not found in dictionaries,
or have heen so mutilated as not to he recogniaahle with
their counterpart in the dictionary. A man like philhy
who is an Arabic scholar coula probably say how and from
what classical Arabic word these Bedouin expressions have
oeen arrived at, buu 1 am airaid niy Knowledge does not
go as far.
5. To return to our subject. As the ^rabic text
says that the 7/estern Boundary of tne Neutral Zone is
,4 a low mountainous ridge called shaq (al Shaqq)', there
clearly is an error somewhere, for as 1 explained
personally to you, the shaq is a wide shallow depression
anything from 2 to 5 miles across according to location,
with not a vestige of a hill or rise in its bed, through
out its whole length - indeed it is so shallow throughout
most of its length that in many parts of it the
untrained eye cannot detect where tne western side
begins and ends.
09 It is true that a series of low ridges and
isolated hillocks run down the Eastern side of the shaq
as far as the Neutral Zone is concerndd (as per sketch
below) out as these lie generally speaking anything from
4 to o miles away, and as they bear other names such
as u Jebel Fuwaris", "^rhaiya", etc., etc., one cannot
claim that they have anything to do with the "shaq' 1
depression proper..
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This file contains correspondence related to a number of different topics (all of which concern Kuwait).
The majority of the correspondence in the file discusses anti-Kuwaiti newspaper articles printed in the Iraqi press. A number of examples of these articles are contained in the file including some original cuttings (ff. 112a-112d).
The following topics of particular interest are also discussed in the file:
- The possibility of the Ottoman Bank or the Imperial Bank of Persia establishing a branch in Kuwait (f. 22, 26, 55, 60, 61, 97-99).
- The right of British subjects to trade in Kuwait (ff. 156-159, f. 164, f.168, f.171, f.181, f.187).
- A complaint made by the Government of Iraq concerning an incursion into Iraqi territory by Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ and an armed escort (ff. 201-206).
- The education of Kuwaiti students in Iraq (ff. 122-23, f. 127).
- A proposed hunting trip by Shaikh Aḥmad to Amara in Iraq (ff. 188-189, ff. 192-193, ff. 197-200).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (235 folios)
- Arrangement
File is arranged in chronological order, from earliest at beginning of the file to most recent at end.
An index of the topics discussed in the file is included on folio 1B.
Serial numbers refer to entries in the notes at the rear of the file: red for incoming, blue for outgoing correspondence.
- Physical characteristics
Condition: A bound correspondence volume.
Foliation: The file's foliation sequence commences at the first folio and terminates at the back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, and can be found 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.
The file contains the following foliation errors: 1, 1A, 1B and 1C; 112, 112A, 112B, 112C and 112D; 121 and 121A and the following omissions: 65; 179-181
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- Title
- 'File 53/32 V (D 128) Kuwait Miscellaneous'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 1r:1v, 1ar:1cv, 2r:3v, 4v:44v, 45v, 48v:57v, 58v:64v, 66r:70v, 72v, 73v, 76v:81v, 85v, 89v:93v, 96v:104v, 105v, 108v, 111v:115v, 117v:119v, 122r:124v, 126v:131v, 132v:137v, 138v:147v, 151v:155v, 157v:158r, 158r:159r, 159r:160v, 163v:178v, 182r:194v, 195v:215r, 215r:228v, back-i
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