Coll 35/12 'Kuwait: post and telegraph office; participation of Iraq in Empire Air Mail Scheme' [‎159r] (319/1092)

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The file concerns the Post and Telegraph Office in Kuwait and its development, to sustain the growing oil industry in Kuwait.

The file contains:

• Proposed transfer of the control of the Post Office from Iraq to the Government of India, 1925-29
• Proposed abolition of the Iraq Post and Telegraph Office at Kuwait, 1931
• Proposed diversion of the Basrah-Kuwait telegraph line, 1931
• Statements showing the expenditure and the income of Kuwait Post Office during the years 1926-35
• Proposed establishment of wireless station at Kuwait to take the place of the existing Post and Telegraph Office administered by the Iraq Government, 1932-38
• Proposed agreement between Kuwait and Iraq, concerning administration of Kuwait postal, telegraph and telephone services, 1932-33
• Extract of commercial agreement between ruler of Kuwait and Kuwait Oil Company, 1934
• Participation of Iraq in Empire Air Mail Scheme, 1939
• Sharing of revenues between Kuwait and Iraq, 1940.

The file is composed of correspondence between: the High Commissioner for Iraq; the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ; the Director General of Post and Telegraphs for Iraq; the Government of India, the Foreign Office; the 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. ; 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. at Kuwait; the Ministry of Economics and Communications of Iraq; the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iraq; the ruler of Iraq [King Fayṣal bin Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī]; the ruler of Kuwait [Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ]; the British Embassy at Baghdad; Charles Harry Clinton Pirie-Gordon; Kuwait Oil Company; the Treasury; Frank C Strick and Company Limited; and Imperial and International Communications Limited.

There is a document in Arabic with English translation in the file, a letter from 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. at Kuwait to the ruler of Kuwait, and the translation of an article, from the newspaper Al-Bilad . There is also a document in French, a letter from the Bureau International de l'Union Postale Universelle.

Extent and format

1 file (543 folios)

Arrangement

The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 544; 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.

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English, Arabic and French in Latin and Arabic script

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