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'File 2/2 III Kuwait-Iraq Smuggling.' [16r] (36/538)
The record is made up of 1 volume (265 folios). It was created in 18 Sep 1934-8 Jun 1935. 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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5./
Iraq territory (Papworth's map of 1954 calls it
Rafahiyah, and Million Sheet RAFAFIYA), where seme of
their friends were staying* After spending one night
there they left again for Jahara and Kuwait.
(c) The men entered Kuwait territory slightly lest of
Jebel Sanara, and when they reached a spot 15 miles
inside Kuwait territory, and slightly West of a dried
up lakelet called ROTHA (Papworthfs map) on the Kuwait -
Basra Road, they met the two Iraqi armed Police cars
which shot them up. (On the Million Sheet the spot
corresponds with the n AL n of A1 Hamar ridge.
(d) Although the man, Murshid al Buraihi, has been released,
the camels still remain in the hands of the Iraq Police.
2. It might be asked what these two unfortunate Kuwaitis
were doing in Iraq, and no doubt the Iraqi Police will suggest
that they ware returning from a smuggling expedition. The reply
to this is that after the Araibdar and Fiddawiyeh earn) at
Ruhail and Athaiba broke up through lack of grazing, the majority
of individual tents proceeded along with many Awazim tribesmen
to the country lying south and South-West of the Hamar lake -
These scattered over a large area in a pitiable attempt to eke ou1
an existence.
5. Close investigations since my return from leave show
that very many of these unfortunate Kuwaiti and Awazim tribesmen
are still South of the Hamar lake, and are quite unable to
return home, let alone move their sheep, owing to the entire
absence in the Northern area of Kuwait of any grazing at all.
4. It Is a melancholy fact that the late rain which fell
in Kuwait in May 1954, and from which so much was hoped for,
resulted in no benefit. New grass actually came up but was
burned up as soon as it appeared* he result has been that
K for the Bedouin famine conditions have existed throughout the
j|K
Summer of 1954 and still continue.
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- Content
The volume contains correspondence related to Kuwait-Iraq smuggling. The correspondence discusses the following:
- Operation of Iraq Customs launch in Kuwait territorial waters.
- The shooting of two Kuwait tribesmen in Kuwait territory by Iraq Preventive Police.
- Proposing a conference to be held between Iraq and Kuwait.
- The suggestion to establish joint Iraqi-Kuwait preventive service to operate on land and sea.
- The suggestion to appoint a British Customs Director at Kuwait.
The British Embassy, Baghdad communicated with the Iraqi Ministry for Foreign Affairs regarding the Shaikh of Kuwait’s complaints against Iraqi customs. The correspondence also has references to complaints and incidents which are discussed in the previous volume in this series– IOR/R/15/5/129 'File 2/2 II Kuwait-Iraq Smuggling'.
The volume also includes reports on the number of cases of smuggling within 1934 and 1935, the smuggled goods including sugar, coffee, tea, tobacco and the values of these items. It also includes records of meetings held at the Foreign Office, London, to discuss the question of smuggling, and it includes notes on Syed Hamid Beg al-Naqib, Deputy for Basra in the Iraqi Parliament, and his visit to Kuwait in April 1935.
Among the 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 Shaikh of Kuwait, the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, New Delhi, the Secretary of State for India, London, and the Foreign Office, London.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (265 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 267; 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. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 149-262; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- IOR/R/15/5/130
- Title
- 'File 2/2 III Kuwait-Iraq Smuggling.'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:19v, 23r:27v, 32r:38v, 40r:79v, 82r:86v, 89r:201v, 204r:250v, 258r:266v, 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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