"ملف ٢/ ٢ I التهريب بين الكويت والعراق" [و‎‎١‎٧‎٥] (٤٤٤/٣٥٤)

S?A Tg aggT_gF ^HASSANJBIlLiBDUIiA.
#e sailed from here (Kuwait)at 7 O'clock Arabic
(midnight) on the night of 21st Janad thani 1552 (12th
October 1935) and after jd 2 days we arrived at Bandar
DILAM, we remained there, till the evening, and again at
7 O' Clock Arabic (midni^it) sailed agKin for Kuwait*
After 2 ni$its and 1 day including the night on which we
set sail, that is on the morning of the second day, at
1 O'clock (6*15 A.M*) 15th October (?) we met the Fao
launch near Has Buhiyan. The officer in charge pretends
that he dhouted to us to lower our sail, we certainly did
not hear him, all we know was that he fired four rifle
shots at us. We signalled to him not to shoot, and as the
weather was calm, we shouted to him (the officer) to bring
his launch alongside* He however refused, and opened a
steady rifle fire on us and continued same, till he had
killed our nakhuda, Haji by name, and wounded Abdu Bhah,
who at the time was holding the mainsail rope and lowering
the sail* We were close to the land of B^biyan* Next I
was hit whereupon the remaining 2 of our crew threw thon-
selves into the Sea and swam to the launch where they were
bawled on board*
They explained to the officer (Hussain Effendi)
that he led killed one man and wounded two more, and that
their boat carried no cargo at all* The officer at first
tied them up and heat them severely, then he untied one
man and sent him across in a f, dug out n canoe to fetch Abdu
Shah and myself to the launch* After that the launch came
along side our boat, which in the meantime had grounded by
the stern. The launch also went aground. In the evening
at about 2 O'clock Arabic (7.15 P.M.) , we both got off with
the tide, and the launch towed us to the "Bangalah" (Fao
Customs House). We arrived there at dawn (16th October?)
They sent me , the dead Nakhuda and Abdu Shah to ■ .ospito.l