ملف ١٢/١٠ أخبار الصحراء: هزيمة الإخوان على يد ابن سعود (معركة السبلة، ١٩٢٩)؛ العمليات ضد المتمردين [و‎‎١‎٧‎١] (٣٨٢/٣٤٨)

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Political A,fcenaj,
Kuwait.
IJth I.!arch 1929 *
Your D«0* No.7^6 of rsater^ay’s date.Shaikh Ahmad
asks r ne to convey hie thanks to you for your help in recover
ln£ the riflee, ©to, which you have promisee to send in. He
does not believe Naeir i>ln Kubaih’s version cf ^nat started
the quarrel, as hie iaea of course say test Nasir «%as to
blame - and proof is not easy either way* he is sending for
i
Dhatiir ash-Shamaari, to question hia a^ain*
The Shaikh says he is quite sure that the ’Uraib&ar
have not 6<>t any of the Ban! Malik sheep, as he has already
had all all the scattered and lost animals which have been
rounded up since the rf»-id handed back to their owners. He
simply Jumped at your su^estion of sending one of his men
with Muhammad al-Ataibi and representatives of the Ban!
Malik to see for themselves whether or not the Hraibdar
have &ot any of their things, and said there w^s no thine he
would like better than to have this point cleared up.He told
off a man and h^d him round here ready to &o almost immedi
ately; he has oraered him to help the Bani Malik representa
tives xn every way, and to see that they see everything.
X do not of course pretend to iooK on the Kuwait
*Uraibdar as paragons of virtue, and in /lew of their origin
I certainly would not trust them too far, but I would nave
been more ready to believe stories of their hrviii£ /^.rticl—
pated in the raid if it had not been quite so close to
Kuwait. As it is, I think it improbable to say the least of
it. But, as you say, they rai&ht have sheep without that, and
that pointjtMje* certainly wants
clearing up.
I
I am giving Howes a copy of this.
Captain J. B# Glubb, C.B.S., M.O#,
Administrative Inspector# Southern Desert*