"ملف ٥ /١ VI شركة نفط الكويت" [و‎‎٢‎٣‎١] (٦٢٠/٤٦٦)

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Ostensibly this person returned to visit his
family i/?ho reside in Kuwait and also to make his peace with
the Shaikh from whom he had, 3 years previously, parted
under a cloud.
In reality there is evidence to show that he
knows more about Oil matters than he possibly cares to di
vulge - whether he has actually been given any sort of
mission by Bin Baud has yet to be proved, but his frequent
references to the "free hand" which the King has given him
to compose certain differences with Kuwait, provided the
results will benefit him (the King) financially, make one
suspicious.
On the other hand the ' orthy Khan Bahadur, who
ostensibly, is very pro British, may have failed to obtain
a good enough ^ob from the King in Saudiyeh, and had there
fore decided to return to the home of his fathers to see
whether he could make good by pushing A.P.O.C. interests
as opposed to those of Major Holmes. e certainly en
deavoured to enlist the sympathies of the A.P.O.C. on his
arrival at Bahrain from Kejd, through their Agent Mr.Yusuf
Kano,C.I•3., (Vide Bushire telegram 206,dated 27.3.33.)
and outwardly appears very anti American and . ajor Holmes
in particular.
The above remarks are made in the form of a digres
sion in view of what follows.
(b) K.B.Abdul Latif, after two preliminary calls,
at which no business was discussed, had a long interview,
with me on 24th April 1933 and among other things made the
following interesting statements connected with recent Oil
events:-
(1) Major Holmes ohly went to Jeddah to try
and pet an Oil Concession in regard to the Kuwait
Neutral Zone - this he (Ahdul Latif) had got to
know privately through Mohamed tulaiman , Bin Baud’.
Finance Minister.
(2) Major Holmes was shrewd enough to-know that if