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File [10/12] Tribal and desert information: Ikhwan raids on Kuwait and defensive measures [178r] (355/576)
The record is made up of 1 file (286 folios). It was created in 1 Jan 1928-31 Mar 1928. 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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AKFORCE HEADQUARTERS.
Royal Air Force.
UR JUNCTION.
Reference:- 1/66
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To:- Major J.C. More
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.
KOWAIT.
21st. February
Subject:- MUTAIR RAID ULimaTM ARflt. - 1 9/2/2,S.
^ ^r^ATjnin.i. The following brief details of air and armoured
car action, subsequent to the Mutair raid in the vicinity of.
1 . Feb. 1 6th. Orders issued from Akforce H.Q,. for armoured
car section to move from BUSAIYAH to RUKHAIMIYAH
and re-establish the advanced base for air
operations in the Neutral Zone and south of the
frontier.
Feb. 17th. Rumours of Mutair raid in unknown direction
received from Police Post at BUSAIYAH from Harb
via. Dhafir sections encamped in Neutral Zone,
No protective reooo. south of the frontier on
this date owing to unfavourable weather conditions.
, eb. 18 th. Aircraft move to advanced base at RUKHAIMIYAH.
Information received from Political KOWAIT via.
A.I. NASIRIYAH that reliable news had arrived to
effect that ad Dawish had reached a position 26
miles east of AS SAFA and that a raid on KOWAIT
was considered probable. Protective air reoco.
carried out over tribes in Neutral Zone. Further
reoco. ordered for 1^/2. over area HAFAR - MASHID
IBN RASHID - ABU AL HIRAM - AL RIQAI; Shaibah
aircraft also ordered to carry out patrol over
area KOWAIT - AL RIQAI a nd return Shaibah along
AL BATIN. These patrols cover probable line of
advance of raiding party on KOWAIT territory. No
news of raiding party received from any source.
4. Feb. 19th. Air recco. located $00 raiders and 2C white tents
10 miles NE. of AL RIQAI# Leader of formation
shot through petrol tank and compelled to retire
and land to repair damage. Second reoco. also
located $00 camel and horsemen, with captured
flocks and camels, proceeding south and located £
miles S. of JARISHAN. Both parties of raiders
repeatedly attacked by aircraft and armoured oars
ordered to proceed in direction of attack and
endeavour to co-operate with aircraft. Information
from Special Service Officer BASRAH indicates
that the raiding party had attacked and looted
flocks of Juwarin, Solubba and Kowait Arabs in
vicinity of JARISHAN prior to their interception
by patrolling aircraft. Later report from A.I.
BASRAH states convoy of Mishail ibn Tawala of the
Shammar ’Aslam attacked and looted by raiders.
Raid appears to have been a large one and may have
totalled 1.000 raiders, possibly operating from
a previously established base at AL RIQAI# The
following of ibn Shuqair, ibn Ashwan and ibn Lami
JARISHAN, are forwarded herewith for information. Events are
chronicled in date sequence.
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This file contains correspondence related to the British Government's relationship with Ibn Sa'ud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd].
Specifically, the correspondence in the file relates to raids made by Ikhwan forces in and around Kuwaiti territory, military action taken against these raids by British and Kuwaiti military forces, discussions regarding the possibility of supplying armoured cars and machine guns to Kuwait and logistical arrangements for the defence of Kuwait from attack. It also contains broader discussions concerning developments between Ibn Sa'ud and leaders of the Ikhwan, notably Faisal al-Duwaish [Faysal al-Duwaysh].
British military action against the Ikhwan involved the use of aeroplanes and as such, the file contains details of ground signals that Kuwaiti forces were to use to signal to British aircraft in English (folio 117) and Arabic (folio 124)
On folio 210, the file contains a list of British subjects and British protected persons that were to be evacuated from Kuwait in the event of an attack.
The majority of the correspondence in the file is internal correspondence between British officials but letters exchanged between 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, Major James Carmichael More, and the Ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah (in Arabic with English translations), also appear throughout the file.
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- 1 file (286 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
An index of topics discussed is contained at the rear of the file (on folios 285-286); the folios used in this index relate to an earlier incomplete foliation system that is in uncircled pencil 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.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 288; 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. Two additional foliation sequences are present in parallel between ff 2-286 and ff 3-286; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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