"ملف 53/32 V (D 128) مسائل متنوعة خاصة بالكويت" [و‎‎١‎٣‎٢] (٤٧٤/٢٨٣)

Extract from Local Press dated Saturday, 21st
December, 1935.
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Al Karkh .
Development of Smuggling Activities in Kuwait .
In a leader under the above heading, written a propos the
three recent encounters between smugglers and the Iraqi special
police force, in one of which the former were found to be using an
armed car, the editor declares that the only effective means for
putting an end to smuggling is the annexation of Kuwait to the
Kingdom of Iraqo In this connection the editor writes ;
"Indeed, if the sufferings which Iraq has been experiencing
through Kuwait were experienced by another State through a
principality such as Kuwait, such other State would shake the world
and find in smuggling incidents an excuse for the annexation of
that principality to its territories to form an integral part
thereof, .^e believe that the authorities themselves agree with us
in this view and in the belief that the only means of overcoming
this formidable obstacle lies in the annexation of that principality
to Iraq and the removal of customs and other barriers existing
between the former and the latter
"If incidents recur and the activities of smugglers assume a
new phase, the authorities will perhaps be moved to make serious
endeavours for the annexation of Kuwait to Iraq."
En passant the editor observes ;
"In any case, whether the motive behind smuggling is one of a
purely economic nature with no other interests being involved, or
there are certain external political influences at play aiming at
something other than profit through smuggling, it is not sufficient
for us to double our police force and incur endless expenditure,,
The only solution for the problem lies, as already pointed out by
Us ) in the annexation of Kuwait to Iraq.".