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File 10/12 Desert news: defeat of Ikhwan by Ibn Sa`ud (Battle of Sibilla, 1929); operations against rebels [126r] (258/382)
The record is made up of 1 file (187 folios). It was created in 31 Mar 1929-5 Aug 1929. 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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afi he Is
that Kuwait subjects be allowed to use the road,
oo&sideriaf; the desirability of detailii^ » special official
to aocoapaay th« sail oar backwards and forwards until
normal conditions are restoredf and X sh&Xl Inform you on
this point when the time coses*
Even when normal conditions are restored, the
Shaikn. considers it undesirable that the read should a t ,ain
be opened to quit© as imreatrloteu traffic a* in the pu&t.
In his opinion it is iiaposeible, frou the nature of the
country tnrcu&h srhiah the road passes > to guarantee the
absolute sax'sty of those who use It, and he thinks it only
fair tnat travel 1 ere should realise and accept such risk as
*ust inevitably exist, and that they should be protected
from any risk that can be avoided.
>* Two potential dangers would see® to exist on this
road, namely (a) robbers *nd (b) raiders.
(a) When the Kuwait - ‘Iraq &otor Transport Company
was first formed, it w*»4’ the invariable ousto® for any oar
belon^ine to it to halt a short distance cut of Kuwait or
^ubair, and for the driver to unlock a box on the rumiing
board ^nd hand round rifles and a&aunition to the passexv^W
ahich he collected and locked a^ay a^ain before arriving
at the other end. X gather that, as these have never been
required up to date, the oustoa has been allowed to lapse,
and eoae of the oars at any rate do not carry any at all
now. The Shaikh thinks that this custom should be revived
and that no entirely unarmed car should be allowed to
proceed alone. One or two rifles are obviously a very 6 ood
protection a&alnsi robbers, &nd the very fact of its beln$
known that all oars usinfi the road are armed mifcht in
itself deter many such people from at temp tine, to waylay
oars. Gars should moreover only use the road during the
hours of daylight.
c D) * party of r.lOr* on the other hand
three or four rifle, are, la the 5h.i*h’a opinion, of no
uee whatsoever, and It le oovlouely l.poeelble for him. or
anyone elee. to furnish oar. with escort, stronfc enough to
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This file contains correspondence related to the British Government's relationship with Ibn Sa'ud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] and related political developments.
Specifically, the correspondence in the file relates to tribal movements and disturbances in and around the Iraq-Kuwait border, the closure of the road between Kuwait and Zubair and the killing of an American missionary named Henry Bilkert.
The majority of the correspondence in the file is internal correspondence between British officials but letters exchanged between the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. in Kuwait, Major James Carmichael More, and the Ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah (in Arabic with English translations), also appear throughout the file.
In addition to correspondence, the file also contains a report on the situation in the Southern Desert of Iraq and Ibn Sa'ud's territory of Najd that was written by the Special Service Officer in Basra (folios 37-41).
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- 1 file (187 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio 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. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 5-186; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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- File 10/12 Desert news: defeat of Ikhwan by Ibn Sa`ud (Battle of Sibilla, 1929); operations against rebels
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 1r:5v, 6v:19v, 20v:48v, 49v, 50v:81v, 84r:109v, 110v:118v, 119v:121v, 125r:136v, 137v:146v, 149r:158v, 159v:161v, 164r:179v, 180v:186v, 187v, back-i
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