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‘Koweit [Kuwait]. A report compiled in the Intelligence Branch, Quarter Master General’s Department’ [front-i] (2/66)
The record is made up of 1 volume (33 folios), with 3 maps. It was created in 1903. 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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Issued by Intelligence Branch^ Quarter Master General 's Depart
ment in India,
To the personal charge of
CUSTODY AND DISPOSAL
The Commander-in-Chief desires that,
strictly adhered to
I. When an Officer, who has signed for
the receipt of secret documents on Army
Form A. 2006, either resigns his command or
vacates his appointment, he will hand over
all such documents to the Officer taking
over his command, or relating him in his
appointment, either temporarily or perma
nently, receiving from him a receipt in dup
licate for them on Army Form A. 2006.
The Officer handing over the documents
will send immediately through the proper
channel one of the receipts thus obtained
to the Intelligence Branch, Simla, from
which the documents were issued, and will
retain the other copy in his possession.
3. If the Officer in charge of secret docu
ments quits his post on leave of absence, or
on duty for a period of over two months,
the same formalities will take place on his
departure and on his return, as on a
change of appointment.
Intelligence Branch,
Quarter Master General's Dept.
Simla, 1st December i8gg.
OF SECRET DOCUMENTS.
in future, the following regulations may be
3. Every Officer after having signed for
the receipt of secret documents will be held
personally responsible for them, even after
he has left the station or the Service, unless
he has handed over his charge in strict
compliance with the above orders. In case
of an Officer quitting his station for less
than two months, it is optional for him to
hand over the secret documents in his
charge to another Officer with the above
prescribed formalities, but if he does not
do so, he is i responsible for them during his
absence as he is during his presence at his
station.
4. The Officer to whom secret documents
are issued will keep a list of the secret docu
ments in his charge, which list will be com
pared when taking over the documents with
the receipt form then signed. He will com
pare the documents personally with the
list on the last of January in each year,
and will furnish a report on Army Form A.
2007, certifying that he has done so.
ALFRED GASELEE,
1 India; Brigadier-General,
Quarter Master General
in India,
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Intelligence report on Kuwait, compiled for the Intelligence Branch of the Quarter Master General’s Department by Captain Henry Harris Hewitt Dowding of the Essex Regiment, and printed at the Government Central Printing Office in Simla, 1903.
The contents of the volume are as follows:
- Introductory remarks;
- Harbour, anchorages;
- History of Kuwait (of the Wahabis, the Ibn Rashid family, the war between Nejd and Kuwait);
- Political (relations between Kuwait and Great Britain, the situation in 1901-02, foreign relations with Russia, Germany, Turkey, events during 1902);
- Military forces, including their strength, arms and equipment, organisation, standard of efficiency and tactics;
- Towns: Kuwait, its population and defences; Jehara [Al-Jahrah], its importance, population and defences;
- Administration, government, free trade, currency;
- Resources, commercial, not agricultural;
- Climate;
- Communications
Four appendices follow the main text: A. routes; B. the Wahabi family; C. the Ibn Rashid family; D. the Shaikhs of Kuwait. The volume also contains three illustrations: the foreshore at Kuwait (folio 3); Mobarek-bin-Subah [Mubarak bin Ṣabāḥ Āl Ṣabāḥ] and his youngest son Naser (folio 9); the Shaikh’s residence in Kuwait (folio 17). The volume also contains three maps: a map of Kuwait and the surrounding country (folio 30); a map of Kuwait harbour (folio 31); and a rough diagram of Jehara (folio 32).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (33 folios), with 3 maps
- Arrangement
The volume is arranged into a number of sections, with major headings in the text and subheadings indicated alongside the text in the outer margins. A contents page (folio 6) lists these major headings and subheadings, along with the volume’s illustrations and maps, and refers to the volume’s original pagination system. Four appendices follow the main text. An alphabetical index (folios 26-28) also refers to the volume’s original pagination system.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the first folio and terminates at the last folio; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located 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.
Pagination: The booklet contains an original typed pagination sequence.
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- IOR/L/PS/20/153
- Title
- ‘Koweit [Kuwait]. A report compiled in the Intelligence Branch, Quarter Master General’s Department’
- Pages
- front, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 1:6, 1:4, 4a:4b, 5:18, 18a:18b, 19:23, 32, 25:31, 24, 33:34, 1:14, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
- Usage terms
- Open Government Licence