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Coll 30/45 'Persian Gulf Diaries: Kuwait Intelligence Summaries, 1932-1936' [256r] (522/1208)
The record is made up of 1 file (594 folios). It was created in 14 Feb 1933-19 Jan 1937. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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5
Kuwait, are sections of the Aunan ( Bani Malik ), Jawareen ,
Sharifat and Albu Saleh > Further west and across the Batin
are the Budur and the Ghazzi , and beyond than again the
Bani Salamah , Ghazalat , Azayad and their allied branches*
6*BIN SAUD AND RIATH InTSIYS*
The following interesting items of gossip were given
me by a Mutairi falconer (friend of mine since six years,
and persona grata with Bin Saud) who was with the King
recently on his Hunting Expedition in the Summan region and
returned with him to Riath. He came up to Kuwait on 14th
January 1935 to see his family:
(a) The King hunted east, west, and north from his
main camp at Dhahal al Fraih; and under cover of
his hawking expeditions appeared to take special
interest in the selection of possible sites (for
military or customs posts) along the line Hafar al
Batin-3afa-Warba-Jerriya- f Nta, i*e. the main wells
facing Kuwait. ( This may presage something signi
ficant*
(b) The King never went as far as Hafar or f Nta, but
scoured the country between the other wells,
visiting among other places TURAIBI (North-East of
his camp) and camping at Urn al Hashim (due west
of main camp).
(c) All members of Al Saud family except Mohamed (brother
joined the King. Ibn Masaad f s son who came with
him, went down with smallpox at the Dahal.
(d) Faisal joined the King actually at Um al Hashim,
and 3 days after protested quite openly to his father
at his wasting his time in hunting. The line he
took was that his father f s continually absenting
himself from business looked very bad in his people’s
eyes, and his moving about in the Summan near Kuwait
would, he said, be misunderstood by both Kuwaitis
and the English.
(e) Faisal and Ibn Musaad returned to Riath with the
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This file contains copies of monthly intelligence summaries that were prepared by the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. in Kuwait. The summaries are divided into a number of different thematic sections, the exact composition of which varies slightly from month to month, but usually includes a mixture of the following headings:
- Royal Navy
- Royal Air Force
- Imperial Airways
- Shipping
- Aviation
- Visitors
- Local interests
- Foreign interests
- Banking interests
- Oil interests
- Meteorological
- Rain situation
- Kuwait Oil Company
- Tribal locations
- Relations with Iraq
- Relations with Saudi Arabia
- Relations with Palestine.
The reports also frequently contain information concerning the second Italo-Ethiopian War (1935-1936) and the Saudi-Yemeni war of 1934.
The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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- 1 file (594 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 596; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves.
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- Coll 30/45 'Persian Gulf Diaries: Kuwait Intelligence Summaries, 1932-1936'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 1r:596v, iii-r:iv-v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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