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'File 2/2 I. Kuwait-Iraq Smuggling' [158r] (320/444)
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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who brought the boat back to Kuwait; seeing that apart from
their evidence and that of the two wounded men, which he also
took down, no other Kuwaiti eye witnesses to the attack exist.
4. The Shaikh as you will observe clearly suggests
that the Iraq version of the incident has been invented to
enable the Director of Customs to exonerate his subordinates.
His Excellency also makes good play of the fact that if the
Fao Customs authorities are deceitful enough to send their
launches to Maschan Island, 30 miles from Iraq territory,
and well within Kuwait waters - see my confidential No.245
dated 14th October 1933 - they are capable of doing anything
shady, let alone concocting a story like their present one.
5. My views are, and have been aftle to collect no fresh
evidence to make me alter them, that the original Kuwait
story of the attack was a simple and straightforward one, and
far more likely to be the true version than the complicated
and rather wonderful one put forward by the Director of
Customs, and two months after the incident took place.
Their story as put forward, that one armed launch,
whose first volley had knocked out 4 out of a crew of six j
could not tackle a small boat defended by 2 survivors, but
must needs send for another armed launch from Fao to come
to their assistance, does not ring true.
i? Nl
6 m As I had occasion to remark in my confidential des
patch No.245 f dated the 11th October 1933; one would have
liked to see the ’Iraq Covernment do the honourable thing and
admit excess of zeal on the part of their preventive Police.
Kuwait would have reacted immediately and generously, I am
very sure.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient servant,
v Lt.-Colonel,
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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.
, Kuwait
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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.
- 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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- 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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