"ملف ٤/١ معلومات عامة بخصوص الكويت والمنطقة الداخلية" [و‎‎٤] (٤٧٤/٧)

at Hamdh near Jaryah, or Qaryah as it should really be
pronounced, in April 1920, and the battle of Jahrah in
October of the same year. The question first arose in
January 1919, when Shaikh Salim wanted to build a fort at
Dauhat Balbul, just north of Jabal Manifah, to which Ibn
Sa’ud objected, and claimed that it was within his terri
tory, Nothing happened until April 1920, when Ibn Shuqair
started to build the Ikhwan village of Jaryah, but from
then onwardsthe relations between Shaikh Salim and Ibn
Sa f ud went from bad to worse. During the summer of 1920
both parties applied for British arbitration, and both were
asked to state exactly what territory they claimed. Ibn
Sa'ud replied that he claimed the whole country up to the
walls of Kuwait; and Shaikh Salim claimed a frontier similar
to the outer line of the Anglo-Turkish agreement. The High
Commissioner for ’Iraq then invited Ibn Sa’ud to Basra with
a view to settling the dispute, but Ibn Sa’ud replied that
he was unable to come at the time. In January 1921 the
Shaikh of Mohammerah offered to send his son, Shaikh Chasib,
accompanied by Shaikh Ahmad al-Jabir of Kuwait, to Nejd,
to try and arrange a truce between Ibn Sa’ud and Shaikh
Salim. His offer was accepted, and the mission left for
Bahrain en route for Nejd in February, and reached Ibn
Sa’ud’s camp to the north of Riyadh on the 2nd March. Two
days later the news of Shaikh Salim’s death reached them,
and Ibn Sa’ud at once said that there was no longer any
quarrel to settle, or any need for a boundary between his
territory and that of Kuwait. Ibn Sa’udfcx had already been
told that His Majesty’s Government recognised the territory
within the inner boundary of the Anglo-Turkish Agreement
as definitely belonging to Kuwait. Nothing more happened
regarding the frontier until November 1922, when at a
conference held at ’Uqair between Sir Percy Cox and Ibn
Sa’ud, at which the Political Agent was also present, the
question of a frontier between Kuwait and Nejd came up for