Coll 30/45 'Persian Gulf Diaries: Kuwait Intelligence Summaries, 1932-1936' [7r] (24/1208)
The record is made up of 1 file (594 folios). It was created in 14 Feb 1933-19 Jan 1937. 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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7 ° r th8 Period from 1st iJeoembsr to 15th Dacembor 1936.
Captain V.3.B
,cenior i4aval Officer
iersian Cuif arrived in H.^.o.ohoreharo, on the 1st Deceraber
and left for 3asra on the 4th.
Official calls ^ere by previous arrangement not
exchanged at this occasion. Captain Jutler paid an informal
call on the Kuler.
17o..,i:ip, Juiix .
Ko 'oraljjn ship viaitad Kuwait during the period
unier review.
171.^/IaTIOK.
(a; Aoval qr -’orce.
iUl.
lb) Imperial airways.
.estbound planes lamed here on all <me dates,
^astbouna planes lamed here on 6th, 10th and 13th,
The one due on Snci uiu not Innd.
17g.yiaITQRo.
towards the end of Aovember, bhaikh Naif ibn
HAi^OUD as 3UWAIT of the Ohafir arrived in Kuwait from hie
camp in the Iraq -hejd JNeutr&l none to make nis annual visit
to the Jiaiich of Kuwait.
Khan nahadur ^bdul ^ tif ^bdul Jalil, ex-lirector
of Kuwait Customs, returned to Kuwait from an annual visit
to Ibn baud on the 5th of December.
The buler visited 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.
on the 14th
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This file contains copies of monthly intelligence summaries that were prepared by the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. in Kuwait. The summaries are divided into a number of different thematic sections, the exact composition of which varies slightly from month to month, but usually includes a mixture of the following headings:
- Royal Navy
- Royal Air Force
- Imperial Airways
- Shipping
- Aviation
- Visitors
- Local interests
- Foreign interests
- Banking interests
- Oil interests
- Meteorological
- Rain situation
- Kuwait Oil Company
- Tribal locations
- Relations with Iraq
- Relations with Saudi Arabia
- Relations with Palestine.
The reports also frequently contain information concerning the second Italo-Ethiopian War (1935-1936) and the Saudi-Yemeni war of 1934.
The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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- 1 file (594 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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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 596; 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. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves.
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- Coll 30/45 'Persian Gulf Diaries: Kuwait Intelligence Summaries, 1932-1936'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 1r:596v, iii-r:iv-v, 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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