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Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/5/126
Title:: File 2/1 I PROPAGANDA (Absorption of Kuwait by Iraq)
Scope & Content:: The volume contains correspondence related to the proposed appointment of Persian representatives in Kuwait, and the Political relations between Iraq and Kuwait. There is also correspondence related to the proposal of the Iraqi Government to appoint an Iraqi Vice-Consul at Kuwait. The correspond...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 4 Sep 1929-13 Mar 1939
Extent:: 1 volume (341 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/5/127
Title:: 'File 2/1 II IRAQ PROPAGANDA. (Absorption of Kuwait by Iraq). Relations etc.'
Scope & Content:: The volume contains correspondence in the form of telegrams, and confidential papers sent between British officials in the Gulf regarding Iraqi propaganda against Kuwait. Communications were made with former Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Pasha al-Said and the Ruler of Kuwait, in this regard. The cor...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:: 20 Feb 1939-29 Feb 1948
Extent:: 1 volume (154 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/5/128
Title:: File 2/2 I. Kuwait-Iraq Smuggling
Scope & Content:: The volume contains correspondence related to Kuwait-Iraq smuggling. British officials discuss the Iraqi Government’s proposal to the Kuwaiti Government for cooperation to help control smuggling between the two countries. They also discuss the conditions under which permission is given to ship g...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 26 Feb 1933-2 Feb 1934
Extent:: 1 volume (218 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/5/129
Title:: File 2/2 II Kuwait-Iraq Smuggling
Scope & Content:: The volume contains memoranda, confidential papers, personal letters and testimonies related to alleged smuggling of food and goods from Kuwait to Iraq. The correspondence includes two unsuccessful proposals for conferences to be held between Iraqi and Kuwaiti officials to discuss the limits of ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 7 Jan 1934-28 Sep 1934
Extent:: 1 volume (318 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/5/130
Title:: File 2/2 III Kuwait-Iraq Smuggling.
Scope & 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...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 18 Sep 1934-8 Jun 1935
Extent:: 1 volume (265 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/5/131
Title:: File 2/2 IV Kuwait-Iraq Smuggling
Scope & Content:: The volume contains correspondence related to Kuwait-Iraq smuggling. British officials stood as mediators between the Iraqi Government and the Shaikh of Kuwait to try and solve the smuggling issue. They discussed possible ways to persuade the Shaikh of Kuwait to agree to a friendly arrangement f...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 23 May 1935-13 Jun 1936
Extent:: 1 volume (267 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/5/132
Title:: File 2/2 V Kuwait-Iraq Smuggling.
Scope & Content:: The volume contains correspondence related to Kuwait-Iraq smuggling. British officials suggested a mixed commission representing both the Shaikh of Kuwait and the Iraqi Government, and authorized the investigation all the frontier incidents by land and by sea that had occurred between the two st...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 21 Dec 1935-11 Feb 1937
Extent:: 1 volume (255 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/5/133
Title:: File 2/2 VI Kuwait-Iraq Smuggling
Scope & Content:: The volume contains correspondence related to Kuwait-Iraq smuggling and Iraqi incursions into Kuwaiti waters. The Shaikh of Kuwait raised his complaints to the Political Agent, Kuwait, about Iraqi customs attacking Kuwaiti nationals, firewood collectors and fishermen and their jolly boats. With ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 7 Feb 1937-1 Oct 1938
Extent:: 1 volume (182 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/5/134
Title:: File 2/2 VII Contraband Questions with Iraq. (Kuwait-Iraq Smuggling)
Scope & Content:: The file contains correspondence between the Director of Customs and Excise, Basra and the Political Agent, Kuwait, related to a case of a Kuwaiti nakhuda who had been fined by the customs office for smuggling goods from Kuwait. In turn, the Political Agent, Kuwait, passed the case to the Shaikh...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 25 Jan 1942-1 Apr 1942
Extent:: 1 file (10 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/5/135
Title:: File 2/4 I TAXATION OF SHAIKH’S DATE GARDENS.
Scope & Content:: The volume contains correspondence related to the date gardens owned by the Shaikh of Kuwait, Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ, and the Shaikh of Mohammerah, Khaz'al al-Ka'bi, in southern Iraq. In particular, the correspondence concerns the Government of Iraq's intention to end the immunity from taxation...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 3 Nov 1914-12 Dec 1930
Extent:: 1 volume (316 folios)

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