'File 53/83 IV (D 123) Kuwait-Iraq Smuggling' [‎207v] (426/526)

Content

This file contains correspondence regarding alleged smuggling activities from Kuwait into Iraq. The correspondence discusses a number of topics including incursions into Kuwaiti territory made by Iraqi Customs and Police Forces, anti-Smuggling measures adopted by the Iraqi Government and negotiations between the two sides mediated by the British.

Primarily, the file contains internal correspondence between British officials discussing efforts to resolve the issue. It also contains correspondence between British officials and their Iraqi counterparts as well as correspondence between Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ, the ruler of Kuwait and Harold Richard Patrick Dickson, the British 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. in Kuwait.

The file contains a write-up of a meeting held at the Foreign Office in London in July 1935 and attended by Shaikh Aḥmad and representatives from the 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. . It also contains a list of violations of Kuwaiti territory by Iraqi Customs and Police Forces between 1933 and 1936 (ff. 158-161) and a list of attacks made on Kuwait in the Iraqi press from the same period (ff. 198-200) as well as a rough sketch map of the bay of Kuwait (f. 29).

Extent and format

1 volume (264 folios)

Arrangement

File is arranged in chronological order, from earliest at beginning of the file to most recent at end.

Serial numbers in red crayon refer to entries in the notes at the rear of the file.

Physical characteristics

Condition: A bound correspondence volume.

Foliation: The file's foliation is written in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. The foliation sequence, which should be used for referencing, begins on the title page, on number 1, and ends on the inside of the back cover, on number 258. The file contains the following foliation errors: f 1 is followed by ff 1A-C.

Written in

English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script

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