'File 6/7 I Kuwait landing ground' [‎109r] (222/524)

COHfflDMTIAL,
Notes of an interview between Lt,-Colonel
H.H.P.Dickson, » Politioal Agent,
Kuwait, and His Excellency the Shaikh held at
9.30 A.M. on 16th June 1934 (Major Watts
being unable to attend owing to indisposition)#
POINTS DISCUSSED. L .^ ^
(a) Baghdad Air Headquarters D.0, letter (Secret)
No.S# 10815/4, dated the 22nd May 1934, enquiring
if the Shaikh could be approached with a view to
formal permission being obtained for the R.a.F,
to ley down mooring buoys in the vicinity of
the old Naval pier, situate in the Shuwaikh
Harbour anchorage* See para 4 of Notes forwarded
to Bush ire under Kuwait Secret letter No*C-85,
dated 1st March 1934 and Colonel Fowle’s r V
Confidential D.0.No.514-3 of 2nd June 1934.
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(b) Whether Shaikh would agree to accept £#100
per annum for the Shuwaikh area as a whole J/j 3 6
known as 1(a). (See 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. telegram fto.464
dated the 20th February 1934 and Kuwait telegram
No.74 dated the 27th February to 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. and
Bushire), pending development of site, and there-
t after £#1200$- per annum. (See 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.
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telegram No. 1194 of 6 th May and previous corres
pondence).
I commenced by telling His Excellency that I xiad
come to bid him "Good bye", as I was leaving for London
in the morning at 4 A.M. on my four months leave, details
of which he was aware of• His Bxoellency was gracious
in the extreme and after expressing very great regret that
I was going, said that he was in a sense glad because it
would enable me to give a personal account of my stewardship
to the authorities in London, and especially would assist
me in explaining his, the Shaikh's, point of view in several
matters now outstanding.
3./