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Coll 30/45 'Persian Gulf Diaries: Kuwait Intelligence Summaries, 1932-1936' [‎34r] (78/1208)

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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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All sections are busy restocking from Kuwait.
Sections of the Ne j d AWAZBI and some of the
are camped in Kuwait territory for trading purposes,
Ibn Saud having permitted it. The majority of the AWAZBi'
under Ibn DURAI are camped at al Tawil with others and
at as Subaihi and Subaihiya prepared,as soon as their
trading is completed,to move towards the SHAQQ on the
Kuwait-Saudi Arab frontier.
A number of other individuals and minor sections
have been permitted to trade*
1 24.Palestine disturbances.
(a) A telegram from Amin al Hussaini, the Mufti of
Jerusalem and President of the Supreme Moslem Council was
received by the Ruler on the 14 th Sept saber*
It enquired if His Excellency was still disposed
towards mediation and informed him that his name had been
mentioned as being so in a declaration by the Council
intended as a reply to the Hi^i Commissioner *3 published
statement of the 7th September.
as Excellency replied politely in non-committal
sense.
v 1 , - riba 1 feeling remains little disturbed. It is
not known by the Bedouins here to what tribes the
Palestinian Arabs belong and therefore they cannot be recog
nized as traditionally friend or foe, as noble or ignoble.
Moreover the long summer pause on the permanent wells
xorbids movement of camps until about now and individual
travellers are few*
From now onwards information about and interest
m the trend of affairs in Palestine may be expected to
increase.
is
Among townsmen there/already much strong feeling
and their sympathy is of course with the Arabs of Palestine
although that country being so far away their interest i s

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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)
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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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