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'File X/3 Disorders & Raids near Basra & in Koweit [Kuwait] Hinterland' [‎147r] (293/303)

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The record is made up of 1 file (150 folios). It was created in 20 Apr 1909-23 Sep 1917. It was written in English and Arabic. 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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Extract from a letter from Sir L« Mallet to Sir Edward Grey,
No, 117, dated Constattinople, the 24th February 1914.
The Grand Vazier gave me to understand that ♦Aziz^li
Boy 1 s arrest was due to his attitude towards the Government
aince his return to Constantinople, and tt is clear from what
I have since learned from other sources that the matter is
really a political one, for there is no doubt that ^ziz’Ali
Bpy has been one of the leading spirits in a group of young
Arabs, officers, and others, who are dissatisfied with the
present Turkish Government. It is difficult to gauge the im
portance of this group, but it has come to my knowledge that
some at least of them are identified with more or less definite
schemes for organising a movement which would aim at releasing
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the whole region from Mosul to the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. from Turkish
domination. They claim to have established communications with
various local notabilities, including the Shaikh of Kuwait,
whose sympathy they say they have secured, and one of their
plans would appear to be to attach the tract of country in which
they are interested to the Shaikh^ dominions. They profess to
be in a position to organise an insurrectionary movement on
such a scale as would enable them to cope with the strong re
pressive measures which the Turkish Government would, they
realise, take to repress it.
Schemes of this kind are of course not new, and I have no
reason to believe that the originators of this one are powerful
or competent. As, however, a definite role is attributed to the
Shaikh of Kuwait, and in view of the unrest which undoubtedly
prevails at Basrah, I think it my duty to bring it to your
notice. If the plan of creating an insurrection in Mesopotamia
should take shape, one of the aims of its promoters would be
to compel British intervention. I have caused it to be known
to some of the persons concerned that His Majesty’s Government
would

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This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding the conflict between the Ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Mubarak Al Sabah, and Shaikh Sa'dun Al Mansur of the Muntafich [Muntafiq] tribe as well as political developments in Kuwait and the Ottoman Province of Basra related to protracted tribal unrest and fighting in that region more broadly.

The majority of the correspondence in the file is between British officials (including 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. in Kuwait, Captain William Shakespear, and 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. , Major Percy Zachariah Cox), but also enclosed are copies of a series of letters (in Arabic with English translations) that were exchanged between Shaikh Mubarak and the Ottoman Governor of Basra in 1911 (folios 85-96,120-121 & 124-125).

In addition to correspondence, the file contains several relevant extracts from the diary of the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. in Kuwait, including detailed descriptions of a number of armed clashes between the forces of Shaikh Mubarak and Shaikh Sa'dun.

The file also contains a memorandum entitled 'Disturbances on the Tigris' written in 1909 by Francis Edward Crow, the British Consul in Basra (folios 8-13) and a cutting in Arabic from the Cairo newspaper Al Moayed from 19 June 1910 that gives details of a battle between a force under the leadership of Shaikh Jaber Mubarak Al Sabah and Shaikh Sa'dun Al Mansur (folio 71).

The file also contains correspondence concerning the robbery of a British individual named William Hickey in Kuwait in 1910 (folios 63-65).

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1 file (150 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.

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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 152; 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. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 2-151; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.

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English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script
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