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'File 2/2 I. Kuwait-Iraq Smuggling' [151r] (306/444)
The record is made up of 1 volume (218 folios). It was created in 26 Feb 1933-2 Feb 1934. 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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reported to him that they had seen the Fao Customs launch
eft tlife pi evious evening, and on several occasions during
the latter part of September, moving about in most sus
picious manner between the entrance to Khor Subiyeh and
Maschan Island, and examining water boats and other
sailing craft, who make a practice of using this channel
when proceeding to and from Fao. £3ome of the islanders
further testified that they had, on one occasion, seen
the launch take shelter from a south east wind and anchor
west of the Qasr Subiyeh promontory, that is to say, actual
-ly inside the bay of Kuwait.
5* According to the Shaikh also, one or two of the
islanders whose fishing boats had been held up, volunteered
the further information that the launch crew had told them
that their role was to hold up all craft carrying merchan
dise from Kuwait to Fao (except water and fishing boats)
and convey them to Fao, and charge their owners with
smuggling and that no manifests in their possession would
y
help them, as the*e would be destroyed. This latter evi
dence however, though important and though it bears out
many other stories I have heard about the methods of Fao
preventive officers, must be taken with reserve, I think.
6. In response to the Shaikh f s enquiry as to why
they, the islanders, had not reported the presence of the
launch to Kuwait earlier, they replied that as poor
fishermen they had not dared to do so, lest their in
formation eventually come to the ears of the Fao authori
ties and they be punished by having their boats seized
and nets destroyed (Not a difficult operation on a dark
night) •
7* On the 1st and End October the Shaikh at my
request proceeded to make immediate enquiries from some
nakhudas of water boats, which had just come in from Fao.
Their evidence he incorporated in his letter of 3rd
October tome (under reference).
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The volume contains correspondence related to Kuwait-Iraq smuggling. British officials discuss the Iraqi Government’s proposal to the Kuwaiti Government for cooperation to help control smuggling between the two countries. They also discuss the conditions under which permission is given to ship goods between the two countries, the fines that are to be imposed on the boats charged with smuggling, and monitoring the territorial waters, Shat al-Arab in particular.
The volume also contains correspondence related to the firing on and seizure of a Kuwaiti jollyboat by a Fao customs launch near Bubiyan Island, and the seizure of three Iraqi ballams (small boats) by the Kuwaiti customs authorities.The volume also contains a confidential report prepared by 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 under the title ‘Kuwait note on the contraband problem of Iraq with her neighbours and in particular how it affects Kuwait’.
The main correspondents in the volume are the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. , Kuwait, 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. , Bushire, the British Embassy, Baghdad, the Iraqi Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Mutassarif of Basra Liwa, the Hakim of Kuwait as well as Customs departments in Kuwait and Iraq.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (218 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 220; 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.
Additional foliation sequences are present in parallel between ff 4-215; these numbers are also written in pencil, but, where circled, are crossed through.
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- IOR/R/15/5/128
- Title
- 'File 2/2 I. Kuwait-Iraq Smuggling'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:20v, 24r, 25r:26v, 28r:28v, 30r:30v, 32r:32v, 34r:34v, 36r:36v, 39r:50v, 53r:54v, 60r:71v, 80r, 82r:105v, 107r:107v, 109r, 110r, 111r:119v, 123r:124v, 127r:133v, 138r:139v, 143r:148v, 150r:154v, 157r:158v, 161r:165r, 166r, 167r:173v, 177r:219v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence