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Coll 30/9 'Persian Gulf: Administration Reports 1926-1938' [247v] (499/1028)
The record is made up of 1 volume (510 folios). It was created in 19 May 1927-14 Nov 1939. It was written in English. 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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{d) Rioting and sabotage earned out by the labourers on the Shaikh’s
date gardens at Fao. The Shaikh declared that these disturbances
were Instigated by the Mutasarrif of Basra under the orders of the
’Iraq Government.
(e) Several cases of attacks by Iraq armed launches on Kuwait sailing
craft alleged to be smuggling goods into Iraq.
(/) Demand bv the Iraq Government that the Shaikh should take active
measures to put a stop to the smuggling into Iraq territory from
Kuwait. The chief of these measures v T ere :—
1. The acceptance of an ’Iraqi customs official in Kuwait to watch
their interests.
2. The maintaining of patrols and guards on the Kuwait side of the
frontier to control land smuggling.
The Shaikh politely declared his inability to adopt Iraq’s suggestion for
financial and other reasons and suggested that an Iraq customs official should
visit Kuwait to confer with him. This, in turn, wms declined by the Iraq Govern
ment.
In the Autumn of 1933 an attempt was made by His Majesty’s Ambassador
in Baghdad for a conference to be held in Baghdad between Iraq customs officials
and the Shaikh’s Customs Director, assisted 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.
and the
Honourable 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.
. This again fell through due to the feeling felt
by the Shaikh that the “ dice would be too heavily loaded ” against him in any
conference held at Baghdad. He countered by asking for the conference to be
held in Kuwait where he would himself conduct Kuwait’s ease, he offered also to
tighten up very considerably the question of sea smuggling (by means of
receipted Way Bills, etc.).
Cases occurred of attacks on Kuwait sailing vessels by Iraq launches.
In the matter of smuggling, Iraq, by the imposition of her high tariffs, has
only herself to blame, if trade is diverted to Kuwait, and is smuggled across her
borders. The one thing that is certain is that the remedy lies in her hands
entirely. She could, for instance, try one or more of the following measures
(1) Reduce her high customs tariffs.
(2) Employ her own Bedouin to assist in stopping smuggling as Bin Sand
does.
(3) Place customs posts along her frontier. There are none for 100 miles
or more.
(4) Patrol her borders with armed cars.
(5) Forbid Iraq merchants to import cargoes marked “ Basrah option
Kuwait ”.
(6) Forbid the export to Kuwait of “ bonded ” cigarettes and tobacco,
which the exporters bring back into Iraq, with the assistance of
Iraq tribesmen in their pay 7 .
VIII.— Relations with Persia.
1. General .—These have not changed. Persia does not^ recognise Kuwait,
and Kuwait reciprocates by 7 having as little to do with her neighbour as possible.
I 2. Passports. — (a) The Passport question still makes it impossible for a
Kuwait merchant, anxious to do trade, to enter Mohammerah or other Persian
port, and the only 7 trade that exists between the two countries, is that earrie
on by villagers from the Persian side of the Shatt al Arab and the Mannaslnr
estuary of the Karun, who come in small boats to sell vegetables, tun ,
“ bhoosa ”, barley and other eatables, and return with petty cargoes of con ra-
band. Such people never possess papers or passports of any T kind and the Kuwait
Government does not worry them for any 7 out of policy 7 .
(b) A certain number of larger dhows (“ Bums ”) also come over from ih®
coast south of Bushire and bring carpets, Abba cloth, nuts, spices, etc. ie ^
also take back rice, tea, sugar and coffee In return. None of them possess
ports or papers, for the simple reason that the Persian Government would re
to give permits to such persons to visit Kuwait.
1 (c) The Persian Government’s attitude to the Passport question ^ 1(?1 ^jp
* makes it quite impossible for Kuwaitis to trade legitimately with Persia a
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This volume contains copies of the annual 'Administration Reports of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ' prepared by 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. in Bushire and printed at the Government of India Press in New Delhi for the years 1926-1938.
These annual reports are divided up into a number of separate reports for different geographical areas, usually as follows:
- Administration Report for Bushire and Hinterland
- Administration Report of the Kerman and Bandar Abbas Consulates
- Administration Report for Fars
- Report on AIOC [Anglo-Iranian Oil Company] Southern Area
- Administration Report of the Kuwait Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
- Administration Report of the Bahrain Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
- Administration Report of the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
- Administration Report of the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. , Muscat
These separate reports are themselves broken down into a number of sub-sections including the following:
- Visitors
- British interests
- Foreign Interests
- Local Government
- Military
- Communications
- Trade Developments
- Slavery
The reports are all introduced by a short review of the year written by 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. .
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- 1 volume (510 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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The foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 512. These numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located at the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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