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out constant raids upon the "borders of Uejd and to plunder
property and cattle from ik&E her in excessive quantities,
and there are in our possession numerous official proofs
issued from British sources in Iraq and from Your Honour
and also from the Iraq Government,which will prove our
claim and support it. S'or these we did nothing but
put forward verbal arguments to the British and Iraq
Governments.
The Iraq Government did not remain content with
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this, "but when we expelled Yusufj/Manaur, who had resided
in the midst of our tribes and was misleading them to
effect raids on his territory, and after we restpred the
plunder which was in the hands of our subjects to the
Dhafir tribe of Iraq and punished our subjects for en-
-croachment, the Iraq Government rose and misled our
afore-mentioned tribe and attracted them to themselves and
received them joyfully and accorded them courtesy and
commenced organizing, arming,aiui supporting and sending
them towards the Hejd boundaries. Then they were
guilty of robbery, plundering, ambush and illegal acts
which caused disorder in Hejd territory and dispelled
security there and aroused the tribes of Hejd to a state
of excitement; at this we did nothing more than express
numerous protests, instances of which may be found in our
letters ITos* 47,48,75 and 79 addressed to you, many
protests addressed to the High Commissioner for Iraq by
me and the arguments of our representatives who appeared
at the Kuwait Conference for a settlement of the dispute.
There was no negligence on our part in tjae matter. These
arguments were not sufficient to prevent those continuous
attacks which were x ^anred on us by Iraq, and which are
still insistent.