'Administration Reports 1905-1910' [‎301r] (606/616)

POLITICAL RESIDENCY An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. FOE 1910.
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his father, regarded M. Toukholka's visit with some suspicion, but treated
him very'hospitably.
Mons. Varin, of whom mention was made in last year's report, also paid a
short vi sit to Kuwait during the year, evidently to seek trading facilities from
the Shaikh, but without success.
On the 24th February, Captain Birdwood (First Assistant Resident),
Tours and Visits of British Officials. arrived from Bushire by the R. I. M. S.
• + oi, -1 u tvt , i . Lawrence" and, after paying a short
visit to Shaikh Mubarak m connection with the suppression of the arms
traffic, left for Bahrain.
The Resident visited Kuwait twice during the year, in April and again
m August. ' r &
Political - Agent's Tours. —The Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. made a month's tour
to the south-west and west of Kuwait, in February, his route being to As-
bata, thence to Hafar, along A1 Batin, nearly to Safwan in the north and
back to Kuwait, the distance covered being over 460 miles marching The
tour was a particularly interesting one, as a good deal of fresh ground was
covered and some unmapped country roughly surveyed. There were, besides,
some wild incidents which furnished experience of Bedouin methods of fight
ing and relieved the tedium of marching. The tour was reported in detail at
the time and need not be recapitulated here.
^ T??t Political A g ent vi sited His Britannic Majesty's Consuls at Basrah
and Mohammerah twice during the year in the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. steam launch " Lewis
Pelly : first in June and again in December.
In the last week of August he also visited the Pearl Banks and the Politi
cal Agent at Bahrain, in the steam launch " Lewis Pelly," proceeding thence to
Bushire and returning to Kuwait, on the 8th September.
On the 24th December the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. accompanied His Excellency
Admiral Slade to Bushire by the R. I. M. S. "Lawrence." He returned to
Kuwait on the 27th leaving for Debai on the following day under orders from
the Resident in connection with the suppression of the arms traffic. He
returned to Kuwait, however, on the 3rd January 1911.
The charge of the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. was held
Political Changes. by Captain W. H. I. Shakespear through
put the year.
W. H. I SHAKESPEAR, Captain,
Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Kuwait.
Kuwait ;
The IMh February 1911. ,