ملف ٦٤٩٩/ ١٩٢٠ الجزء ١ "شؤون الكويت: النزاع الحدودي بين الكويت ونجد؛ عدم شعبية الشيخ محلّيًا" [و‎‎٨‎٧] (٢٩٤/١٦٧)

Confidential.
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Political Agency,Kuwait.
17th July 1920.
To,
The Civil Commissioner,
Baghdad.
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Memorandum.
■Reference my telegram ^o.55 0 dated the 13th July 1920
I enclose herewith Shaikh Salim*s letter of the 12th Instant in
original, together with a translation. It is in reply to a letter
of mine No. 520 of the 10th Instant in which I embodied the main
points of your telegram No.7255,but,of course,omitting all
reference to your opinion that the probable result of negotiation
would be that his territory would derestricted to a smaller area
than that given by the Anglo-Turkisn Convention.
I had a long interview with him of the 10 th and care
fully explained the various points to him in detail. He was
greatly distressed over the Anglo-Turkish Convention and kept
repeating over and over again that Captain McCollum had shown
him this frontier on a map and told him definitely that it was
his for all time. He talked wildly of going to war with Ibn
3a*ud if he would not' order Faisal ad-Dawish to make restitution
as he said he could not in honour leave his w halal H in nis
hands. He said he felt strong enough to beat Ibn Sa’ud and
opened his shirt and showed me a wound on his chest- presumably
to impress upon me that he was not frightened of war.As he was
quite incapable of understanding reason at the time,I left him
to think over my letter,which he had not as yet seen.
I saw him again on the 12 th-the date on which he wrote
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the letter- and he was then considerably calmer and less thirst
ing for war. He still kept harping on the Anglo-Turkish Conven
tion,however,and on the assurance that it was still valid which
he says he received from Ca}$.in McCollum.; and repeated that he
could not with honour leave his ,, halal n in Dawish s hands until
the affair was finally settled by negotiation. He said that he
had,accordingly written a friendly letter to Ibn 3 a»ud,refusing
to sign the paper,but saying that he too was most anxious to
return