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'File 4/6 II Kuwait-Iraq Frontier' [48r] (95/440)
The record is made up of 1 file (218 folios). It was created in 21 Nov 1939-7 Nov 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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Confidential .
Political
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
,
B.o. Mo. C/323.
Ku«rait,
9th July, 1940.
fill you please refer to Sir Basil Newton’s letter
No. 360/10/40 of the 27th June, 1940, addressed to you
concerning the frontier hoard?
2. You will see that the Iraqis claim that we put the
hoard up too close to Safwan post. The spot we selected was
the one pointed out hy the Kuwaitis as the place, anl
certainly it appeared to he for the ground there was soft
and had been dug before. I tried to check tne position hy
counting the telegraph poles, hut owing to the haze ana dust
I found this difficult. Dickson is of the opinion that we
should have been at the tenth pole from Safwan which would
make the post not a mile from Safwan, and both he ana Scott
are of the opinion that the distance was less than a mile.
I was faced with difficulties on the ground and obviously
did not want to go to Safwan to measure, and more obviously
still I was not going to put the hoard farther away from
Safwan than it was before. All things considered I believe
we found the old place.
3. A report has been received tills morning that the
Iraqis have reinoved the hoard again, and done their best to
obliterate the mark. I think this is of no importance as
the Iraqi Government have now admitted that their idea of
the line of th© frontier at Safwan coincides with ours, and
that is all that is required.
4. Should you wish me to go out again to fix the
frontier at Safwan, I think it would he unwise to do so
except in conjunction with the Iraqi Government, as saould
this not be done an incident might occur ahich would he
The Bon’hle Ileut-Colonel O.G.drior, CIS.,
Political Besident in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
,
Bushire.
deplorable./
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This file contains correspondence regarding the demarcation of the Iraq-Kuwait frontier including issues related to a disagreement between the governments of Iraq and Kuwait regarding the location of a specific border marker, smuggling between the two countries and the development of Umm al-Qasr port in Iraq and the potential implications thereof.
The primary correspondents in the file are British officials from the Foreign Office, the 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. , the Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. , the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. in Kuwait, the Commonwealth Relations Office, the British Embassy in Baghdad and the British Consulate in Basra.
The file also contains a letter to the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. in Kuwait from the Ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah (in Arabic with English translation) and a limited amount of correspondence with the Government of Iraq (folios 46 and 110).
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- 1 file (218 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 220; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located at 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 2-219; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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- IOR/R/15/5/185
- Title
- 'File 4/6 II Kuwait-Iraq Frontier'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:36v, 38r:45v, 47r:109v, 111r:219v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence