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'File 2/2 I. Kuwait-Iraq Smuggling' [121r] (246/444)
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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I
duties levied in Iraq on the articles principally so traded in
such as Sugar t iea f Coffee* Matches* Gigaret-te paper and
Tobacco. It is not possible to state the extent of loss in
Customs revenue to Iraq* but if it is assumed that the seizures
made amount to one-tenth of the contraband trade then a rough
estimate of £30*000 annually can be mentioned. It is possible
that a certain quantity of this illegal trade emanates
from Arabia proper* but the difficulties of transport in an
almost waterless tract of desert help to discount this
alternative. As a measure of prevention* the importation of
manufactured articles of origin foreign to Arabia is forbidden
across the land frontiers between Zobeir and Nej&t and at
places on the Chatt-al-Arab except Fao* Seeba* Abul ^asib and
Basrah. The posting of an armed sea-going vessel to patrol
the entrances of the Shatt-alArab and the Khor Abdalla is now
contemplated.
Smuggling being as profitable as it is found to be,
there is reason to suppose that organized arrangements are being
employed by the traffickers. Formerly the main trade of Aobeir
was illicit, but the armed patrol cars have acted as a check to
some extent and the area of wrong-doing is thus being spread.
It is natural that bad characters - not necessarily residents
of :<oweit - are finding employment in the manner indicated and
affrays are fre uent. Within the last year three ^uoijis
(Iraq Customs guards) have been killed by rifle fire and quite
as many smugglers have been similarly accounted for.
It cannot be said that His Excellency the ; heikh of
Koweit is a party to the malpractices describee:* but there is
no doubt that his people - and perhaps some of his officials -
find a very profitable living by what occurs. The Kingdom of
Iraq and the State of Koweit are on friendly terms and it is
very necessary that an agreement should be reached to put a
stop/
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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
- 120r:122v
- Author
- Al Hashimi, Yasin Pasha
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