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File 10/12 Desert news: defeat of Ikhwan by Ibn Sa`ud (Battle of Sibilla, 1929); operations against rebels [125r] (256/382)
The record is made up of 1 file (187 folios). It was created in 31 Mar 1929-5 Aug 1929. 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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No. Ub-3.
Politic 1
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
, kum it.
>th March 19 ^ 9 .
Proa
To
Lleuteaant-3oloa«l J. G. !or» # D.3.0*,
Political A^ent, Kuwait.
The Admlnlatratlve Inspector,
Basrah Liwa, Basrah.
Tne Kuwait Kuo^ir
Sir, .
,11 th reference to the correspondence ending with
/our t.loferwa No. 2^9 d.t.4 tn. .atto PoDrunry 029 on tn.
subject of the Kuwait - Kubair Road, I have the honour to
inform you that His Excellency the Shaikh of Kuwait has
&iven an undertaking in writlii^ that he will not hold the
Mutas&rrlf of Basrah in any way responsible for the lives
or property of Kuwait sublet* u^lne the road, e«en on that
portion of It which lies in 'Iraq territory, if at hie
request they be allowed to use it before the : utasarrif is
prepared to accept the responsibility of declaring th. road
open for general use, alway. provided that the road be ^
closed » c aln if *nd when toe Shaito conveys tne requ at \
that this aay be done. At toe present aouent, however, he
does not wish his subjects to oe allowed to use It.
^ It and When toe Shaikh does a&aia wish toe road
to be opened for Kuwait subjects as above, he will not
accept responsibility for the safety of otoer nationalities
uaine, the Kuwait portion of it, »t any rate until the
KUtasarrif of Basrah is again prepared to acoent responsi
bility for the safety of Kuwait subjects using the 'Iraq
portion.
3 The shaikh "tl- 1 not necessarily aoo.pt respoati-
' bility for the safety of the -all in Kuwait territory when
ever it is allowed to leave, even though he -ay request
I
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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] and related political developments.
Specifically, the correspondence in the file relates to tribal movements and disturbances in and around the Iraq-Kuwait border, the closure of the road between Kuwait and Zubair and the killing of an American missionary named Henry Bilkert.
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.
In addition to correspondence, the file also contains a report on the situation in the Southern Desert of Iraq and Ibn Sa'ud's territory of Najd that was written by the Special Service Officer in Basra (folios 37-41).
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- 1 file (187 folios)
- Arrangement
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 first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 187; 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. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 5-186; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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- File 10/12 Desert news: defeat of Ikhwan by Ibn Sa`ud (Battle of Sibilla, 1929); operations against rebels
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 1r:5v, 6v:19v, 20v:48v, 49v, 50v:81v, 84r:109v, 110v:118v, 119v:121v, 125r:136v, 137v:146v, 149r:158v, 159v:161v, 164r:179v, 180v:186v, 187v, back-i
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