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'THIM DAYS IS GONE' [122r] (243/248)
The record is made up of 1 file (124 folios). It was created in c 1980. It was written in English. 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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capable of such a degree of tact and understanding.
About this time a rather droll situation arose.
had risen above that in India and I was ordered to asiThJ^
prohibit the smuggling of gold out of India When I out thn
request to the Shaikh his fice" lit uo ■ t P ^
consistent?" He said. "When we were taking it into Indfa" you
were forever pestering us not to, and now that weVe brinqinq it
backyoutellusnottodothat either!" ^ ^
n g light
reflected that since hiV 0 !?' fh the W9y t0 the pa1ace Mohammad
lectea that, since his brother was g ib and persuasive while
he was the opposite, the Shaikh's verdict was certain Vn nn
favour of his brother. His loaded carbine was across his knees"
still. Driving on to the
;:ps, n, •;/
ne tnrew himself on his knees
self-defence - he was preparing to shoot me!"
J|lj^ f P ' aCed the Shaikh in a most horrible dilemma for bv
tradition, no member of the Sabah family could be left unauonnoH
be d executed qUa lhe snl^t" 9 tradit ’ on no member of the family could
hannnH?^w d ' T h e . s 0 1 u 1 °" was worthy of Solomon - the driver was
w 9 dec ared ^rs’o'na"^^ a J. he . was on '* a slave), but Mohamad
desert eC anH ne^^to live in the
was declared persona non-qra tis sim a
desert and never to enter Kuwait T
^Innni 1 ! 5 ar ? in ^ e d esert Mohammad had built up a flourishina
smuggling business between Kuwait and Iraq - in fact had arhiPt/PH
a virtual monopoly, which no one dared to try to break |)Itn
. , ^ ^ ls * spring of 1948 two members of the Sa'dun famflu
thought they would try their hand at it (The Sa'dun arn th^
Shaikhs of the numerous and powerful Muntafiq tribe of Southern
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A memoir written by Major Maurice Patrick O'Connor Tandy recounting his career in the Royal Artillery, Rajputana, Sialkot, Persia, North West Frontier Province, Afghanistan, the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , and Kuwait.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 124; 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. Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- 'THIM DAYS IS GONE'
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- 1r:124v
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- Tandy, Maurice Patrick O'Connor
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- ©Major M P O C Tandy
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