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'File 4/12 Shaikh and Subah [al-Sabah] Family --- Miscellaneous' [146r] (291/374)
The record is made up of 1 file (185 folios). It was created in 21 Aug 1938-27 Oct 1949. 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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No.
iiiSpRjiias
Camp 1 .
Kuwait.
Reference my telegram dated 28th.October from
/ounding of Shaikh Mohammed bin Ahmed.
2 . Shaikh Mohammed’s life is now out of danger.
In addition to the v/ound in his throat he has lost his right 1
thumb.
3* His version of the incident is that he left ^
Basra on the ^3rd. October on a hawking expedition during -
which he did not leave Iraq territory. On his ret’ju?n7"^fie!i
he had reached a point so ie 7 miles west of £ubair , a
Mutairi guide who was sitting in the body of the pick-up
announced that a Police car was folio ing them. Shaikh
Mohammed^stopped his car and, at the ,rme time, the Police
opened fire with a machine— un. He is now anxious to see
exemplary punish lent meted out to his assailants.
4* The Iraqi version is tha'i the shaikh’s car
entered Iraq in the neighbourhood of Suleiman! to the
west of Jabal Sanam, where it was seen by a Police patrol
car. As the locality was far from the usual route from
Kuwait to Iraq, the Police suspected smuggling and gave
chase. The Shaikh’s car accelerated and was chased for
some 35 kilometers and, when they feared they were going
to lose it in the tamarisks to the west of Zubair, the
Police opened fire as a warning to stop. As their car
was in motion and bumping some of the bullets hit the
Shaikh’s oar instead of passing over it as was intended.
Shaikh Mohammed’s war was found to contain 44 packets
of tea, one 4 -gallon kerosene tin full of tea and one full
of sugar, and a roll of 40 yards of cloth. This story was
told me by the Police at Zubair (where the Mutassarrif
had previously been to investigate) and will not necessar
ily be identical with the official Iraqi version.
5* Shaikh Mohammed was seen buying piece-goods
in Kuwait on the 26th. in the same car and with the saiie
driveras were with him when he was shot, and it is inher
ently probable that he would take the opix>ptunity, while
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This file contains correspondence between British officials related to a number of different topics that all concern members of the al-Sabah ruling family of Kuwait.
The topics discussed are as follows:
- The financial conditions of Shaikh Hamud al-Jabir al-Sabah, 1938 (folios 2-8).
- Tensions between different factions within the al-Sabah family, 1940-41 (folios 9-27).
- Details regarding transferring Shaikh Ali al-Khalifah al-Sabah to Lebanon for medical treatment and his subsequent death in 1942 (folios 73-76,121-124,127).
- The sudden illness and then recuperation of the Ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Ahmad al-Jabir al-Sabah in 1942 (folios 44-138).
- An incident in which one of the ruler's sons, Muhammad, was shot by Iraqi forces during a hunting trip in the south of Iraq, 1945 (folios 142-162,166-176).
- An article that was published in the Egyptian newspaper al-Ahram containing an interview with Shaikh Ahmad, 1945-46 (folios 163-165).
- The reaction to Lebanon awarding a number of al-Sabah family members civil honours, 1949 (folios 177-179)
The majority of the correspondence is between British officials but the file also contains some correspondence between Shaikh Ahmad and the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. in Kuwait that is in Arabic (accompanied by English translations). A limited amount of correspondence with officials of the Government of Iraq is also present.
In addition to correspondence, the file also contains a list of al-Sabah family members which lists their name, profession, age, physical characteristics and other remarks (folios 27-29) and a note on the health of Shaikh Ahmad prepared by the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. in Kuwait (folios 57-61).
- Extent and format
- 1 file (185 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 187; 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. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 34-174; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script View the complete information for this record
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- IOR/R/15/5/194
- Title
- 'File 4/12 Shaikh and Subah [al-Sabah] Family --- Miscellaneous'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:4v, 7r:20v, 21v:31v, 33r:53v, 55r:75v, 77r:78v, 80r:86v, 88r:88v, 90r:90v, 92r:92v, 94r:106v, 108r:118v, 120r:123v, 125r:126v, 129r:143v, 144v:163v, 165r:167v, 170r:174v, 176r:186v, back-i, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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