"ملف ٧/٦ I مهبط الكويت" [و‎‎١‎٦‎٣] (٥٢٤/٣٣٠)

nONFIDBNTlAL.
D.0.N0.C-23^
POLITICAL AGENCY
KUWAIT•
The 21st January 1935
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Thanks for your S-I0B1S/4, dated the 29th December
1934
I shall certainly keep you informed privately as
soon as I hear that the Kuwait Oil Company propose Interesting
themselves in the shuwaikh Area, which the recently
considered taking over as a possible air> and more especially
Flying Boat, base*
2. Yon will have seen from my last Intelligence
Summary that the Kuwait Oil Company did, as I anticipated,
get their Oil Concession out of the Ahaikh. The
negotiators immediately afterwards went home, to arrange
for geologists and engineers to come out and survey the
country. These I expect will arrive about February*
3 # You may take it as pretty certain, I think, that
should Oil eventually be discovered to the oouth of Kuwait
Town, i.e. -^outh of Kuwait bay , the eventual Oil exporUng
Port will be located at nhuwaikh seeing that no other
sheltered harbour Is available on the main coast line racing
(west end of Kuwait Bay) will be Hie site selected for the
the sea.
4, Should, on the other hand, Oil be /^covered
iWt.h nf the jav of Kuwait, it is probable, I think, that the
deep water bay known
as the Khor Kadhama opposite ^asr adhazaa
future Oil Port of Kuwait. This is where the Germans Intended
in the pre-war days,
that the Ber Un-Baghdad railway should
have its eventual debouch, and have its terminus on the
Persian Gulf littoral
5./
■air Commodore J.A.Vachell, M.C.,p.s.a.
Air Headquarters,
HINAIDI.