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(e) Shaikh 4>)dulla al Jahir retained his appointments as
Chief J'idKe and Erector of Education and has carried on his arork
with conniderahle success* He is a hypochondriacal individual
and visited Baghdad in October for medical treatment hut unlike
Shaikh Vbdulla As Salim he found time to enjoy himself and was
hospitably entertained by leading Iraqis.
(f) Shaikh Ha mood al Jabir, His Highness* half brother was
relieved of his appointment of -resident of the Municipality on
his return from leave in lyria in October for misappropriation of
public funds, do far no successor has be n appointed.
(g) Shaikhs Tahad and dubah \s Salim retained their appoint
ments of Head of the Treasury and Chief of Police respectively.
(h) Shaikh Abdulla al Ahmad has governed the trsenal without
undue effort and has increased in weight so that he now weighs
at least seventeen stone#.
(i) Shaikh al .Jabir has continued to control the
port. He was active early in the year against smugglers and made
some notable captures but it is to be feared that the enormous
bribes which high prices and fantastic profits enable smugglers
to offer have not all been rejected and there has been a very
serious increase in the smuggling of goods, principally sugar,
out of Kuwait.
(j) Shaikh Subah an xNasir a very well-to-do but distinctly
unbalanced member of the tribe came into prominence during the
early part of the year principally on account of his acts of
insubordination in desert affairs which eventually shamed the
Ruler into taking action to curb this gentleman exuberance. Latei
in the year he moved to the northern frontiers of Kuwait where
it is probable that with the help of Iraqi Shaikhs, with ,\hom
he is on terms of friendship, he engaged in smuggling sugar and
tyres from Kuwait to Iraq.
III. THK POLITICM RSI ATIONH WITH THE SHAIKH .
The 'Olitical 'gant*s relations with the Ruler have
remained most cordial and His Highness has on every possible
occasion shown his willingness in practical form to further the