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'File 2/2 III Kuwait-Iraq Smuggling.' [128r] (260/538)
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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^ypHAMDUK OK KUWAIT SMUGGLING
The outcome of the meeting of His Excellency Sir Irancis
H. Humphrys and Messrs. Hogg, Sievwright, Bateman and Stafford
was briefly as follows!-
I. That the Iraqi Government would not put forward any
further detailed proposals for the co-operation of the Shaikh
in the prevention of smuggling, as the Shaikh had not furnish
ed any considered reply to the scheme placed before him by the
Iraqi delegation wnich visited him in September last.
2. That the advisers to the Government have prepared a
scheme of which the following are the main principles. These
principles, subject to agreement later on details and the
figures of quotas and compensation, have been accepted by
His Majesty*s embassy as being &ir and reasonable measures
which the Shaikh should accept in order to retain the amity
of Iraq :-
(a) The appointment of an experienced British director
of Customs at Kuwait, preferably from India, with
an adequate staff. One half of the cost of the
Director and the staff would be defrayed by the
Iraqi Government on the understanding that/the
director would work in the closest co-operation with
the Iraqi Customs Department. He would send^opies
l
of all export licences for goods leaving Kuwait by
land or sea to the Iraqi Customs Department and
furnish all Information reasonably required by the
Department for use in the prevention of smuggling.
(b) The import of certain articles into Kuwait to be
restricted to an annual quota. These commodities
are those on wnich a high fixed rate oi duty is
chargeable and which are known to be smuggled into
Iraq in great quantity. The Iraqi Government
should /
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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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- English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script View the complete information for this record
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- Reference
- 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
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence