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Enclo. 3 to Serial No. 121.
Translation of a letter received by His Excellency the Shaikh
Kuwait from a personal friend in Jijbail whose name is >
ttv a nmj'T^ Tttratt 7ttt Jamad 1348 QOth OnTcvRimj X929)
J1TJWAIT A — " is NOT
divulged, dated Jubail 7th Jamad 1348 (10th October
The messengers who brought the news of ad-Duwish’s slaughter by th e
Awazim arrived yesterday morning. They consisted of two persons sent by
Abdullah bin Turki (Abu Ithaar) and they brought a letter^ copy of which i g
also below. Similar letters having been sent to Qatif and Hassa. “We convey
to you the happy tidings that the Awazim crushed the vile enemy on the 1st
Jamad I, (5th October 1929), and that their chief, ad-Duwisb, his son Bandar
and Ibn Ash wan’s two sons were killed and that the defeated were followed up to
Hamadh and were slaughtered in a killing so great as will be handed down by
the living to posterity. Five Bairaqs^were captured from the enemy/' and sent
by us to Hassa.
2. The messengers gave out that the day before the battle there were
attacks on horses by both sides and that on. the 1st of Jamad (5th October
1929) Mutair heavily attacked the Awazim who consisted of four parties
camped on the Nuqairiyah wells (Ingair). During the attack the most south-
ernly party was defeated and Mutair reached the Awazim’s camp and set up
their Bairaqs in it.
3. As to Ibn Shuqair, he took Dhidan from the Awazim, but the latter
then counter-attacked and defeated and drove back the enemy to their camp.
In the evening the Awazim again attacked the Mutair and fought with them
with swords and daggers (hand to hand) and after a two hours’ struggle the
Mutair were again defeated and followed to Hamadh.
4. Ibn Shuqair escaped in another direction to that of the defeated tribes,
whose total casualties are estimated to be 800 out of whom ad-Duwish is one
(undoubtedly), and also Naif Abul Kulab (Shaikh of the Ajman) Ibn Ashwan’s
sons and many others.
Enclo. 4 to Serial No. 121.
Translation of a letter from Shamlan bin Ali bin Saif, Bahrain, to
H. E. Shaikh Ahmad al-Jabir as-Sttbah, C.S.I., C.I.E., Ruler of
Kuwait, dated the 10th Jamad I, 1348 (13th October 1929).
After compliments.
Before this I sent yon a letter in which I informed you about our safe
arrival, nothing occurred here besides the fight of ad-Duwish with the Awazim.
The news which has reached us is that ad-Duwish has been defeated but
we are in doubt as to whether the news is true or not, but many stories have
reached us from Hassa, Jnbail and Qatif all to the effect that the fight took
place on the morning of Saturday and continued for six hours, ending with the
defeat of ad-Duwish who was followed to Hamadh, and that ad-Duwish himself
and his son Bandar had been killed.
Tnere is an addition to the above news, received from Jubail, it is that Ihn
Shuqair during the fight took some camels which belonged to Awazim and
•started towards the West in another direction than that of the defeated tribes,
we do not know whether he took these camels from Awazim during the fight or
found them straying.
fi summar y °f the news which has reached us about the fight aI1 ^
the truth of course, will appear later. As to the Amir Saud, he has probably
e t liassa to-day proceeding to the Awazim with a force, he ordered the Qusai-
? arra i* nge , to send his requirements to Jubail, this was done together with
500 tins of petrol for his motor cars.
■n ^ is said that Amir Saud has fifty motor cars and that four aeroplanes
wfil reach to him, God knows better if this be true.