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'File 4/5 Kuwait State: Shaikh of Kuwait, Status of and Salutes for' [31r] (61/370)
The record is made up of 1 file (183 folios). It was created in 29 May 1932-25 Apr 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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URGENT.
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No 0 8546 Ministry for foreign Affairs,
B,agdad,
14th November 1954.
The Ministry for Foreign Affairs present their
compliments to His'Britainic Majesty # s Embassy,Bagdad,and,
In continuation of their note No»6046 dated 14th August,
1954, regai-ding salute firing by warships calling at the
Port, have the honour to state that the British Naval
Command have sanctioned the firing of only seven rounds in
salute to the Governors of Abadan, Muhammerah or Bandar
Abbas and the same number in the case of the Mutassarif of
Basrah, whereas the minimum number of salute rounds, as
provided for in British "second” (? standing) Orders, is
eleven.
* 2* As the * Iraqi Government consider the rank of a
Mptassarrif to be equivalent to that of Commodore, they
consider that British Warships should, when receiving a
call from the Mutassarrif, Basrah Liwa, at the Port of
Basrah, fire a salute of eleven rounds instead of seven.
3. The Ministry suggest the following arrangement for
salute firings
17 rounds in the case of an Admiral of the Fleet.
15 ” ” ” ” ” an Admiral
13 11 *’ " ” ” a Vice-Admiral or Bear
Admiral.
11 ” ” ” " "a Commodore.
4. The Ministry lequest the esteemed -Bmbassy to be so good
as to approach the quarters concerned and secure their
consent to this arrangement in order that it may be agreed
upon, and that firing instructions may be laid down accord
-ingly and the necessary orders issued on the subject.
The Ministry avail themselves of this opportunity to
express their highest consideration and esteem.
HisBritannic Majesty's Smbassy,
Baghdad*
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This file contains correspondence between British officials concerning issues related to the number of official gun salutes that the British Government assigned to rulers in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. as well as the titles that should be used for them in official correspondence.
Specifically, the majority of the correspondence in the file relates to two main issues:
- Britain's decision to increase the official gun salute of the rulers of Bahrain and Kuwait from seven to eleven in 1933.
- Britain's decision to grant the rulers of Bahrain and Kuwait the title of 'His Excellency' in 1937.
The file contains two lists of all the region's rulers and their respective gun salutes/titles, one from 1936 (folios 73-75) and another from 1949 (folio 183).
The main correspondents in the file are British officials from 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 Agencies in Bahrain and Kuwait and the Admiralty. It also contains a limited amount of correspondence between the Ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah and the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. in Kuwait, some of which is in Arabic.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (183 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 185; 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 1-184; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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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/15/5/183
- Title
- 'File 4/5 Kuwait State: Shaikh of Kuwait, Status of and Salutes for'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:13v, 16r:18v, 21r:24v, 26r:141v, 144r:152v, 155r:159v, 161r:184v, 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