مجموعة ٩/٣٠(٢) "تقارير إدارية عن الخليج الفارسي - ١٩٤٥ -" [و‎‎٣‎٦‎٩] (١١٤٨/٧٣٧)

allied interests.
IV. TOO AT, !^T 3
(a) General .
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There has "been no political activity worthy or mention during
the year. Trade has, all things considered, been remarkably good
and the attention of the merchants has been engaged exclusively
in their ovn affairs.
During the course of the year the continued upvard trend in
prices caused the Kuwait Government under pressure from the
igenoy to take certain very necessary measures to safeguard the
interests of the community and maximum prices vvere fixed for
wheat, flour, rice and sugar, the export of silver coin ,as for-
bidden, an embargo was laid on the export of goods by sea and
l*nd to all places except Saudi Arabia, and a primitive but really
remarkably effective system of rationing of essential foalstuffs
was introduced.
An event of importance was the conclusion of an Extradition
Agreement, a Trade \greement and an Agreement of Friendship and
Neighbourly Relations between the Ruler and the Government of the
Hedjaz and Nejd. The actual signature of these documents had no
practical effect as the provisions had already come into force in
1940 by mutual agreement between the two countries.
The domestic affairs of the house of 3ubah have attracted
no attention and as far as is possible to ascertain the year has
been strangely free from family squabbles.
At no time during the year was any anti-British feeling
readily apparent and such subterranean activities as there may
h-'we been died away as the German Marshal Rommel's army in Worth
Africa was driven further and further to the west and the threat
to Egypt and the iddle East became at first less dangerous and
later practically non-existent.
Trade . A full report on the imports and exports for the
year will be found in the Kuwait Trade Report, a non-confiiential
publication.
(c) Cu s toms . There have been no further increases in the Customs
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