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Coll 30/9 'Persian Gulf: Administration Reports 1926-1938' [509r] (1022/1028)
The record is made up of 1 volume (510 folios). It was created in 19 May 1927-14 Nov 1939. 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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not heard of again until he reached his camp near Dair az-Zaur on the 7tli
November. Shibrum had four men and twenty camels killed. He then
again divided his party into two, one under his own leadership and the other
under Mutni bin Jabrin. The latter’s party reached Nuqrat Salman that
evening but were discovered and again attacked the next morning by aircraft,
although they had tried to conceal themselves in the valleys near by, and lost
t considerable number of camels. Shibrum’s party took shelter in the bushes
ten miles south of Nuqrat Salman and escaped detection. After the depar-
aure of the aeroplanes Shibrum went on to Nuqrat Salman for water. There
he found Mutni with only twenty men left, the remainder having been killed,
or scattered for fear of the aircraft. Shibrum’s party and the survivors of
Mutui’s party again joined forces and proceeded to the north-west. On the
16th October the Dahamishah, a sub-section of the ’Amarat section of the
’Anizah, waylaid them about a hundred miles to the west of Najaf. On the
morning of the 20th October-they saw two aeroplanes near Qulban al-AIa’t
(about 33° N. by 40° E.). Although the aeroplanes flew on towards Rutbah
without attacking them they felt sure that they had been seen, and thought it
wiser to split up into two parties again. One, under Shibrum retired some
thirty miles to the east to the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
’Amaj, while the other under Mutni con
tinued the march. As they were crossing the Rutbah-Ramadi motor track,
however, they encountered a mixed force of aircraft, armoured cars and police.
Mutni with twelve of his followers fled, and the remaining nineteen surrender
ed without fighting. The Government forces then went on to "
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
’Amaj
and called on Shibrum’s party to surrender. Eour men did so, but the re
mainder refused, and an engagement took place in which the raiders lost
seventeen men killed. The remainder of the party escaped through the night.
The raiders were again located and machine gunned on the 23rd October but
there were few casualties. Later on Shibrum joined up with ’Aid bin ’Ajil
a°‘ain, but shortly afterwards the united party was attacked by the ’Uqaidat,
a^riverain tribe in Syrian territory, and lost over a hundred more camels and
even their rifles. Altogether the raiders lost forty seven men killed, and
twenty seven were captured. Over two hundred camels were restored to
Kuwait. This vigorous action is already having a very great effect in the
desert.
Motor Transport.
The communications between Kuwait and Iraq were greatly improved
during the year under review by the opening of a good motor road, and the
^Wkhment of an efficient motor service between Kuwait and Zubair. 11ns
has been done by the Kuwait—’Iraq Motor Transport Company formed by
Saivid Hamid Bey an-Naqib, to whom the Shaikh granted a concession m
1925 which gives him a monopoly of the carrying of passengeis and goods by
car for a period of fifty years.
Pearl Eishery.
The Kuwait Pearling Fleet was timed to put to sea on the 21st May, but
r i m aptiiallv do so until considerably later owing to a strike amongst the
S S to the extremely bad season in 1925 the pearl merchants
weJe short of ready money, and the financing of the fleet was a difficult
Tatter As a means of economizing, they proposed to give the men an im-
.i t advance After much talk it was decided to increase this to
Fs S T‘>0 pe^vel aTd Ks. 80 per hauler, and the Shaikh was reluctantly per-
K LA V rate The men, however, still refused to accept it, and a consi-
dTaht numb“nded Finaily most naJckndas had to yield to the men’s
derable min j r advances. The season was quite one of the worst on
demands, and » ^ | earth of oys ters, but few of them had anything in them,
record there extraordinarily bad, and at the end of the year the
biggest merchantfin Kuwait had two years’ stock of pearls in hand.
Medical.
The health of the town was good on the whole, but tuberculosis continued
Phe healt ^ ^ suffered) but especially the upper and
^ alrA
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This volume contains copies of the annual 'Administration Reports of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ' prepared by the 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. in Bushire and printed at the Government of India Press in New Delhi for the years 1926-1938.
These annual reports are divided up into a number of separate reports for different geographical areas, usually as follows:
- Administration Report for Bushire and Hinterland
- Administration Report of the Kerman and Bandar Abbas Consulates
- Administration Report for Fars
- Report on AIOC [Anglo-Iranian Oil Company] Southern Area
- Administration Report of the Kuwait Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
- Administration Report of the Bahrain Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
- Administration Report of the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
- Administration Report of the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. , Muscat
These separate reports are themselves broken down into a number of sub-sections including the following:
- Visitors
- British interests
- Foreign Interests
- Local Government
- Military
- Communications
- Trade Developments
- Slavery
The reports are all introduced by a short review of the year written by the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. .
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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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The foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 512. These numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located at the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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