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'File 2/2 I. Kuwait-Iraq Smuggling' [22r] (48/444)
The record is made up of 1 volume (218 folios). It was created in 26 Feb 1933-2 Feb 1934. 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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Translation of stateioent made to the Director of
Cus toms, Kuwa it.
0O0—
This is to inform you that I shipped per the
Balam of uakhuda ill Ibrahim 10 bags of sugar and 5 bags
of tea from Kuwait to Kao, as per manifest Ko.692, dated 25th
Dhil Hujjah 1351 (20th April 1933). .men the Balam passed the
"Qishlah" and was just about to cross the lower end of Khor
AbdMlfc, a motor boat came up, the crew of which started
shouting and ordered it to stop. But when the crew under
stood it to be the Fao Customs motor boat, they became
afraid of treachery ana began to change their course. This
they did because the Director of the Fao Customs has on
several previous occasions made it a practice to seize
sailing ships, unmistakenly carrying cargo to Fao, under
proper manifests from the Kuwait Customs Department, and
has destroyed these latter, and takenthe boats to the principal
Customs Department pretending that they were smugglers, this
in order to get a regard from the Government.
In the present case the nakhuda was clearly afraid
some such thing was going to happen, because >!he had a mani
fest from the Kuwait Customs Department for the cargo which
he carried to Fao. The motor boat seeing that the Balam did
not stop, when ordered to doso, fired at it. Two persons
were killed including the Nakhuda^, and two were wounded.
The rest of the crew in great terror and after much difficulty
reached Kuwait in their boat.
We ha ve made the above report to draw your kind
attention to this distressing incident, and to request you
to be so good as to submit the case to His 3xcellency the
Shaikh.
Dated^AthsKuharram 1352. Sd. Haji Hasan Ashoor.
oOo —
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The volume contains correspondence related to Kuwait-Iraq smuggling. British officials discuss the Iraqi Government’s proposal to the Kuwaiti Government for cooperation to help control smuggling between the two countries. They also discuss the conditions under which permission is given to ship goods between the two countries, the fines that are to be imposed on the boats charged with smuggling, and monitoring the territorial waters, Shat al-Arab in particular.
The volume also contains correspondence related to the firing on and seizure of a Kuwaiti jollyboat by a Fao customs launch near Bubiyan Island, and the seizure of three Iraqi ballams (small boats) by the Kuwaiti customs authorities.The volume also contains a confidential report prepared by 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 under the title ‘Kuwait note on the contraband problem of Iraq with her neighbours and in particular how it affects Kuwait’.
The main correspondents in the volume are the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. , 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. , Bushire, the British Embassy, Baghdad, the Iraqi Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Mutassarif of Basra Liwa, the Hakim of Kuwait as well as Customs departments in Kuwait and Iraq.
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- 1 volume (218 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume.
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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 220; 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.
Additional foliation sequences are present in parallel between ff 4-215; these numbers are also written in pencil, but, where circled, are crossed through.
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- IOR/R/15/5/128
- Title
- 'File 2/2 I. Kuwait-Iraq Smuggling'
- Pages
- 22r:22v, 24v
- Author
- ‘Ashoor, Haji Hasan
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