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'File 2/2 I. Kuwait-Iraq Smuggling' [152r] (308/444)
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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8* H is Excellency verbally explained to me that he
had found diificulty in making these men talk, for they
one and all were engaged in carrying water from Fao f and
some had families there. They were clearly afraid of
consequences and begged him not to forward their names
to 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.
(myself) as this would end in
their certain ruin with the Fao authorities who would
certainly, in due course, be supplied with the whole
story, of how they had informed. For this reason, His
Excellency said that he was averse to divulging actual
names, at any rate for the present. He had however got
their written statements and could get others from the
Falaika Islanders if necessary.
9. According to His Excellency some of the boatmen
when being interrogated pointedly asked what he, the
Shaikh, had been able to accomplish about the Kuwait boat
which had been attacked by the self same launch on the
high seas at the end of June last, and had had 2 men
killed and 2 severely wounded out of a crew of six. (See
my letter No.264, dated the 6th May 1933). That inci
dent, they said, was an utterly unprovoked attack on an
innocent and harmless craft and happened far from the
* Iraq Coast, the whole local seafaring world knew this.
The very presence of the said launch today near Maschan
clearly proved, they said, that the ’Iraq authorities
ordered her to go far afield, and also as clearly showed
that neither he, the Shaikh, nor 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.
, had
been able to get satisfaction or compel the Customs De
partment to confine their activities to their own ter
ritorial waters.
10. As the Shaikh explained, and I fear I must
agree with him entirely, the disturbing point about the
whole thing is the irresponsible^ increased boldness
shown by the Fao Customs authorities these days. For
their launches to act so far afield from ’Iraq waters
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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.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (218 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume.
- Physical characteristics
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
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:20v, 24r, 25r:26v, 28r:28v, 30r:30v, 32r:32v, 34r:34v, 36r:36v, 39r:50v, 53r:54v, 60r:71v, 80r, 82r:105v, 107r:107v, 109r, 110r, 111r:119v, 123r:124v, 127r:133v, 138r:139v, 143r:148v, 150r:154v, 157r:158v, 161r:165r, 166r, 167r:173v, 177r:219v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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