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Coll 30/21 'Persian Gulf: Koweit. Blockade by Ibn Saud. Koweit-Nejd Relations' [264r] (538/1142)
The record is made up of 1 file (562 folios). It was created in 15 Mar 1932-13 May 1935. 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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sufficient to fill tiieir boats; approximately 10 to 30 bags
of sugtr or other dutiable articles. The crews then try
and get back under cover of night, either by entering the
Shatt al Arab and creeping past Fao Customs Post, or
dumping their cargoes on the "boggy" mud flats existing at
the top end of the Khor Abdulla, whence confederates at
once take the goods over, and hide them in the many villages
and hamlets existing in the Palm belt of the Shatt al Arab
It is true that occasionally small Kuwait dhows are
hired to run these cargoes, but they are the exception and
not the rule.
Method (2) is managed as follows, and as far as one
can gither, much the bigger volume of contraband traffic
goes into IRAQ this way: For six months in each year
Kuwait State is overrun by the Muntafik and Hamar Lake
shepherd tribes. Approximately some 15,000 persons male
and female enter Kuwait after the first fall of rain
(November) and spread themselves like locusts over the
whole country from Safwan to the Kuwait Neutral zone and
as far west as Riga! in the Batin. These people are all
the time sending parties into Kuwait to sell their sheep,
wool and ghee and in return buy food and clothing, part of
which is oi course for their own legitimate needs, but a
large portion is for passing on to confederates, who come
down from the Euphrates from as far west as Sanaawa and live
with them until such time as they can run the stuff they have
bought across the western frontier of Kuwait. These con
federates are all tough and well armed customers, who dress
and look like shepherds. They arrive with plenty of money
and either come into the town and buy themselves, or depute
the shepherd tribal women to do so. The contraband so run
usually goes through to the thickly populated tribal country
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This volume contains correspondence between British officials regarding a trade blockade that was imposed on Kuwait by the King of Saudi Arabia, Ibn Sa'ud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd]. In addition to this specific topic, the correspondence also contains lengthy discussions regarding Britain's relations with Saudi Arabia and Kuwait more broadly.
As well as internal correspondence between British officials (primarily Britain's Minister in Jeddah, officials at the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. in Kuwait, the Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. in Bushire, the 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. and the Foreign Office), the volume also contains translated copies of letters that were sent to British officials by Ibn Sa'ud, two of his close advisors (Yusuf Yassin and Fuad Hamza) and the Ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah.
It also contains a number of extracts from Kuwait Intelligence Summaries produced by the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. in Kuwait and the following documents:
- 'Draft Note of a meeting held at the Foreign Office on Monday, October 8th [1934], regarding the Claims of the Sheikh of Kuwait Against King Ibn Saud' (folios 109-110)
- 'Final Record of Meeting on Matters affecting Kuwait' 8 June 1934 (folios 132-133)
- 'Final Record of a Meeting held at the Foreign Office on October 5 [1933] to Discuss Relations Between His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom and the Sheikh of Koweit' (folios 148-154)
- 'Ibn Saud's attitude towards Kowait' by Sir Andrew Ryan, 16 August 1933 (folios 202-206)
- 'Note on the Contraband Problem of Iraq with Her Neighbours, and in Particular How it Affects Kuwait' by 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, Harold Richard Patrick Dickson, 29 May 1933 (folios 259-269)
- 'Record of an Interdepartmental Meeting held at the Foreign Office on the 28th April, 1933, to consider the question of the blockade of Koweit by King Ibn Saud' (folios 292-295)
- 'A Note on the present position of Trade between Iraq and Najd' (folios 420-421)
- 'Notes on his Excellency Shaikh Ahmad's Trip to Riath [Riyadh]', 1932 (folios 487-496)
- 'Draft Record of a Meeting Held at the Foreign Office on August 12th, 1931, to Consider Certain Questions Connected with Koweit' (folios 543-562).
The volume includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the volume by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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- 1 file (562 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 562; 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, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- Title
- Coll 30/21 'Persian Gulf: Koweit. Blockade by Ibn Saud. Koweit-Nejd Relations'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 1r:35v, 37r:77v, 80r:188v, 190r:223v, 233r:393v, 396r:400v, 402r:405v, 411r:462v, 462ar:462av, 463r:481v, 483r:513v, 517r:527v, 531r:562v, iii-r:iv-v, back-i
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