'File 13/10 Arms facilities for Shaikh Mubarak' [‎184r] (367/650)

DtirAn^; the Rehldent^s visit t'*. KTiwvLt on tho
J^ly the subject of the arms re Tiired by the She
2nd
,k . came
up and was discus* ed in detail# It appeared tha i the
S?eikh desires to imrort from Maskat the largely increasd
amounts named by him in his letter to the Political
Agent dated ths 27th Jamadia-l-awal 1330 in addition to
those for which he was given permission in last October
Those for which jermission has been available for YM/
the last nine months 9 he proposes to imrort at once #
sending Haji Najaf bin Ghalib to arrange for them and
heir shipment# They amount to 2300 weapons and '375,000
cartrdigse# After some talk he agreed that the last de-
-roand which amounts to 7000 weapons with 400 rounds per
rifle ( which comes to 2,800,000 rounds) and an addition-
-al amount of ammunition for weapons already in Xuwait
com ng to another 400,000 rounds * For these tho Sheikh
agreed to wait until the new arrangements had comp into
force at Maskat , that is until after the 1st September
1912# which would give the ^esident time to represent the
matter to Government #
After the ab^ve had all been received the Sheikh
said he would not import any more from Maskat but as his
necessities arose he would advise Government andi obtain
permission to import them direct from England to;Kuwait
He added that of the figures above given he required
1500 weapons ( 500 of them Magazine arms ) for shamlan bin
Saif and his people of the eastern town # 1500 weapons
for Nasir al Badr and his people of the western jtown #
YY4/YYLY/YYYY/tfal/V£M4Xt/id // 2000 weaj ons for the tribes-
-men in the desert # and the rest for hi rwn immediate
1 family and entourage •
S 1918 -5,000-3-06