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File 619/1907 Pt 3 'Arms Traffic:- Koweit Trade.' [‎56r] (116/720)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (358 folios). It was created in 28 Apr 1900-15 Jun 1914. It was written in English and French. 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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Statement of the arms which are Shaikh's own property.
Translation.
With Saad bin Mathi and his people of the Towatha
With the Guards, with the flocks and with the shep
herds.
With our sons and their servants ...
With our servants in the town
With Abdul Karim bin Saeed, Chief of Jahra
With the horse-keepers in the environs and Mahomed-
ath-Thafiri.
With Matlag bin Masaihin and his people of the
Rashaida,
With Alyan-ash-Shahri
With Fahad Rai-Fahma and his people of the Awazim
With Fahad bin Maatiga and Saif bin Saihan and
Mubarak al Malaiba and their people.
With Ghanim ash-Shahri and his people of the
Rashaida.
With Tala’a bin Hanaiyah and his people of the
Birzan.
With the Dushan, Faisal bin Sultan, and JETaza and
Faisal bin Majid and Haif al Fugam,
With Hatah and Saad al Haiti
With Ali Dabus and Jasim Dabus
With our servants at Fao
With Abdur Rahim bin Rashid and brothers at Fao
With each weapon 50 rounds. Total 150,000
cartridges.
With us in our god owns in Kuwait 26,000 „
Arms
860
420
130
320
130
64
90
40
140
220
30
45
85
2
4
320
100
3,000
6,000
Total Cartridges 176,000 Arms 3,600
Translation of a letter from the Captain W. H. I. Shakespear, 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, to
Shaikh Mubarak-as-Subab, Ruler of Kuwait, No. 458, dated the 4th October 1911.
After compliments —We have received with the hand of friendship your
letters of the 5th and 10th Shawal together with the list and their contents
have been understood. Rut it is incumbent upon me that I should make plain
to Your Honour that until it has not become known to the Government in what
way will proceed this arrangement between us for the informing of issues and
returns of your arms and ammunition it does not profit to discuss of things of
the distant future and of what you have mentioned of the necessity for arms for
purposes of defence, this Your Honour has explained verbally and in writing
to the Resident, to the Admiral and to me and it is known to the Government
and it is established with them. But let it not he hidden from Your Honour
that the increasing of the numbers of arms and cartridges which you mention
in each letter more than in that before it, in my opinion will not profit you
because it is possible to become a source of doubt to the Government. And
of the portion of those capable of my (your) people of (bearing) the price of
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The volume discusses the work of British political and naval authorities in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. in suppressing the trafficking arms and ammunition, particularly from Muscat to Koweit [Kuwait]. Included are reports of searches undertaken on vessels suspected of trafficking of arms, including inventories of seized goods, and records of land attacks undertaken on arms depots and caches along the Gulf coastline.

The later correspondence discusses the discovery of arms and ammunitions being smuggled into Koweit within cases of loaf sugar (sugarloaf), and attempts to identify those responsible for sending and receiving the smuggled goods.

The principal correspondents include 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. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (Charles Arnold Kemball, and Percy Zachariah Cox); 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. and Consul at Muscat (William George Grey, and Frank McConaghey); 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. at Kuwait (Stuart George Knox, and William Henry Irvine Shakespear); the Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department (Hugh Shakespear Barnes, Sir Louis William Dane, and Spencer Harcourt Butler); the Secretaries of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir Edward Grey) and India (Lord George Francis Hamilton, William St John Fremantle Brodrick, John Morley, Viscount Morley of Blackburn); the Viceroy of India; the Commander-in-Chief of the East Indies Station (Edmond John Warre Slade, and Richard Henry Peirse); the Secretary to the Government of India in the Marine Department (Malcolm Henry Stanley Grover); the Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (Victor Gallafent Gurner, Charles Pipon Beaty-Pownall, and James C Tancard); and representatives of the Foreign Office, 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. and the Admiralty.

This is part 3 of 10. Each part includes a divider which gives the subject and part numbers, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references contained in that part by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.

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1 volume (358 folios)
Arrangement

The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.

The subject 619 (Arms Traffic) consists of 7 volumes, IOR/L/PS/10/110-116. The volumes are divided into 10 parts with parts 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 comprising one volume each, parts 6, 7, 8, and 9 comprising the sixth volume and part 10 comprising the seventh volume.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 358; 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.

Condition: The spine has become detached and has been placed in a plastic sleeve and placed after the last folio of the volume. It has been foliated with the number 357.

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English and French in Latin script
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