المجموعة ٧٣/٣٠ "الأنشطة الألمانية في الخليج (بما في ذلك أنشطة شركة هانزا)" [و‎‎٣] (١٦٩/٥)

Confidential
* No. 181.
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British Consulate
Basra,
2f7th January 1939.
Sir
I have the honour to report the following for
information and such action as you may consider necessary.
2. On the 3rd January 1939 the Political Agent at Kuwait
informed me by telegram that a German national called Mohamad
had attempted to land at Kuwait without a visa. Although
his entry was prevented he declared his determination^ to
enter that territory, as also that fcf King Ibn Saud, by way
3. The Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, to whom
the Political Agent had addressed his telegram, requested
further information regarding the individual, and after
enquiries from a reliable source I discovered that "Mohamed"
was really Karl Stanek. styled as a student of entomology,
who after staying sii months in Baghdad, embraced the Moslem
faith and ther‘;dfter called himself Mohamed.
4. Herr Stanek called to see me on the 10th January and
requested a visa for India on his German passport, No.158/38
issued at Bombay on the 10th December last. He told me that
he had already received a visa for India from His Majesty's
Consul at Baghdad in August 1938 and that he had then proceeded
to Muscat, landed there, and after some days continued his journej
to India where he surrendered his Austrian passport in exhhange
for his present travel document. He left I n dia and then made
an attempt to land at Kuwait, as explained in paragraph 2.
Basra.
The Secretary to the Govhr nmmt nf
in the External Affairs Department
New D„lhi, India.
ENCLOSURE IN INDIA
FOREIGN SECRETARY’S LETTER
No. DATE RECEIVED
64' -6 - 4 2 4 -4-1939
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