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'File 8/1 Arms Traffic' [286r] (576/624)
The record is made up of 1 file (308 folios). It was created in 2 Jan 1925-22 Apr 1939. 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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from Koweit, and in paragraph 4 of his letter of the
2lst January to the Government of India he has suggested
certain points on which it might 'be useful to ask for
inxorrnation from the Iraqi Government on this subject.
Lord Zetland feels that there is much force in the views
expressed hy the Resident in his above-mentioned letter
and he wou]d suggest that the Iraqi Government might be
asked, with reference to Taufiq Suwaidi’s remarks to which
bir T. Fowls refers, to furnish the desired information
so tar as they may be able, both to establish that their
allegations are well founded and to assist the British
and Koweit authorities in devising means to suppress
such traffic as may be shown to exist.
3* In his letter of the 21st July, Ho. 427-3.
(vide enclosure to my demi-official letter of the 17th
August, No, P. Z. 5537/38) , the Resident endorsed the
view that the source of the arms smuggled into Iraq lay
not in Koweit but in Saudi Arabia, and further colour is
given to this belief in his recent letter of the 12th
January. It is not clear why smugglers from Saudi Arabia
should pass through Koweit territory at all, but even if they
do so Lord Zetland would suggest that it rests with Iraq
and not with Koweit to institute adequate frontier measures
to check the traffic* if the Saudi-Arabian Government are
not prepared to take steps to stop the smuggling at its
source.
4. On the question of smuggling generally the
views of the Government of India and of the Political
Resident, which were called for urgently at the request
of your Department, are contained in the Goveynmonb of
India’s hologram of the 2nd February, No. 20^3, and the
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This file contains correspondence between the various Political Agents in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. at Bushire, the ruler of Kuwait, and various other officials on the arms trade in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . Most of the papers pertain to a broad attempt to control the illegal trade in arms. The correspondents speculate and investigate the manufacture of arms- and the geographic origins, smuggling routes, and identities of intermediaries involved in the arms trade. Most of the trade occurs between the Arab ports of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , southern Iraq, and the ports of the Persian side of the Gulf, but particularly the Makran coast.
Of note is a widespread investigation into the theft of arms from the Iraqi Army carried into the Arabian Peninsula by way of Bedouin tribesmen.
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- 1 file (308 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 front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 310; 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.
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/15/5/308
- Title
- 'File 8/1 Arms Traffic'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:13v, 15r:20v, 22r:25v, 27r:35v, 37r:47v, 49r:55v, 57r:88v, 90r:94v, 96r:152v, 154r:163v, 165r:166v, 168r:168v, 170r:177v, 179r:309v, back-i
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