"ملف 61/14 III (D 47) العلاقات بين نجد والعراق (غارات مطير على بصية وغيرها" [و‎‎٢‎٠‎٢] (٤٥٣/٤٢٢)

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Political Agency, Kuwait
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February 1928
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The Secretary to
The Hoa'ble the Political Resident
In the Persian Gulf,
B U S H I R E.
Flahtlng. at Rlaa 'i
MEMORANDUM.
With reference to my telegram No. 55 dated the 27th
January 1928 and subsequent correspondence on the subject of
the recent fighting on the borders of Kuwait, the following
is an account of what actually happened.
On the evening of Friday, the a7th January,news reached
Kuwait that 'All bin 'Ashwan, of the Aulad Wasil sub-section
of the Buraih section of the Mutair, with a force of
camel riders and 50 horsemen, had raided the Kuwait tmrifTKinr'
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! tJraibdar, or local Arabs, at Umm Ruwaisat in the
Shiqaq district, 38 miles to the north west of Jahrah,
killing three men and carrying off a considerable number
of camels and sheep.
All available cars were at once commandeered and sent
out to Jahrah the same night, with orders to proceed to
Riqa'i, $0 miles further to the west,south-west, as soon
as it was light enough to see , in the hope of cutting off
the raiders' retreat#
This they nn .TrWi in doing, and at 4,30 p.m. on the
28th January fifteen cars out of twenty five which had left
view of the fact that there is no road beyond Jahrah, and
all the cars were grossly overloaded, some carrying as manv
as nine men. There they encountered the raiders, and at
once attacked them. Although only numbering about 75
rifles, the Kuwait force was very much better armed than
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Kuwait arrived at Riqa'i - a very creditable performance in