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A statement showing Highest Maximum, Lowest Minimum, Average
Maximum, Average Minimum temperatures and total rainfall during
the year, 1928.
Highest
Maximum.
Lowest
Minimum.
Average
Maximum.
Average
Minimum.
Eainfall.
January 1928 . . . .
791
49-0
68-3
57-3
•18
February „ ....
85-2
45-5
71-4
57-2
...
March „ ....
89-7
51-5
74-5
631
•15
April „ . . . .
1027
62-2
91-9
7S-6
...
May „ ....
108-0
680
96-0
79-1
...
Jane „ ....
105-7
74-8
97-5
84-3
...
July . . . .
110-2
78-1
101-5
86-9
...
August „ ....
110 9
75-4
101-5
84-4
...
September „ ....
101;9
781
98-4
82-2
...
October „ ....
98-7
67-4
911
76-2
...
November „ .....
93-8
61-0
782
70-1
2-76
December „ .....
81*6
512
71-0
58-1
•78
Total rainfall during the year 3-87 inches.
CHAPTER X.
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Administration Heport of the Kuwait Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. for the year 1928.
Personnel
Lieutenant-Colonel J. C. More, D.S.O., held charge of the Political
Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. throughout the year.
Assistant Surgeon A. L. Greenway, M R.C.S., L.R.C.P., was
in Medical Charge of the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. and Charitable Dispensary, and performed
the duties of Quarantine Medical Officer throughout the year.
The Ruling Family.
Shaikh 'Ali as-Salim, the second son of the late Ruler, was killed in
an action against Mutair raiders at Riqa'i on the 28th January.
In the same engagement Shaikh 'Ali al-Khalifah, the Ruler's second
cousin, was very severely wounded, and was not finally discharged from
Hospital until the 9th August.
His Excellency Shaikh Ahmad al-Jabir as-Subah, C.I.E., Ruler of
Kuwait, visited Bahrain by air on the 31st August in an Imperial Airways
aeroplane chartered for the journey by a pearl merchant, and returned the
following morning. His uncle, Shaikh Hamad al-Mubarak, officiated for
him during his absence
111 feeling had existed for some time between Shaikh Subah an-Nasir,
the Ruler's cousin, and his younger brother Shaikh 'Abdullah, a boy of
seventeen. Matters came to a head in the beginning of December when
Shaikh 'Abdullah, objecting to his brother disposing of an old car which
lie thought he should have given to him, took it forcibly from its new owner.
Shaikh Subah, who was out in camp at the time, wrote a letter to the Ruler