'File 5/C Boundary questions: attacks on Ikhwan; dispute between Shaikh Salim and Ibn Sa`ud' [‎20r] (39/230)

IP • 37/3.
political Agenjy, Kuwait
Dated Idth liay, 1920.
To
The ^ivil Cominis iloner,
Baghdad.
Me norandum.
Heferenoe your telegram No.5369 dated 4th May,1920.
Shaiith Sail a visited ne yesterday expressly in oonneotion
with the oooupatijn of Jariyah by Bin ishgair. He states that
his relations with Bin Saud are so impaired/that he finus it
inpossible to settle the natter without your intervention. He
produced in original a letter d^ted 25th P&abi-al-Thani,i337 —
28th January, 1919 from Bin f!aud -nd a copy of his re^ly thereto^
d x, ted 9th Jauaai al Aw a 1337 = 11th February, 1919 reg.braing the
Baloul question. Copies of these ^re forw ^-.ed herewith. It
will be ooserveu therefrou that there is practically a cxeaa-look
between theo. He states that cie^pite all thio, r^nd in ooedience
to your orders he na^e friendly representations througli Bin Saud
agent and odiers, but that Bin Saud is inflexible and continues
to issue secret orders to Akhwan to rttaok and plunder Tjr uwait
car vV .ns t.n^ travellers.
He also inferoed ae th*t Bin lohg*ir has sent letters to
Hil *1 bin Pejhan and ^hanlan bin xMi, the two biggest Kuwait
pe <.rl nerchants, and to ^o.ae others x’eq.ae ^ting to leave the
country of Kafirs and to oa„e mn settle >t Jariyah which is now
naae near to theo. Purther that the interruption on the Kuwait-
Zubair telegraph line fro.c 7th to 9th inst j.nt was due to the
cutting of the line by TJmtair tricesnen in the vicinity of r a*bia
These tribes.aen who -re all Axhwan h-d previously -to-cxed and
looted near Janara a caravan of 6C Canels going fron Kuwait to
Zubair. ✓
build ^asr at g ilcul he stopped fro.a doing so and begs now that
you aay be pleased to order juin aud to stop -.r^n building at
by the latter’s aggression
The Shaikh states th-t when Government ordered hi.a to
J -riyah, giving hi-a at the aa^e ti.te a definition oi the Kuwait
boundaries.