IOR/R/15/1/535

This file contains correspondence regarding alleged smuggling activities from Kuwait into Iraq. The correspondence discusses a number of topics including incursions into Kuwaiti territory made by Iraqi Customs and Police Forces, anti-Smuggling measures adopted by the Iraqi Government and negotiations between the two sides mediated by the British.

Primarily, the file contains internal correspondence between British officials discussing efforts to resolve the issue. It also contains translated copies of correspondence between Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ, the ruler of Kuwait and Harold Richard Patrick Dickson, the British Political Agent in Kuwait. One of the letters from Shaikh Aḥmad contains a diagrammatic sketch map of the Iraqi-Kuwait border area (f 86 and an identical copy on f 120).

The file contains a write-up of a meeting held at the Foreign Office in London in October 1936 that was attended by Trenchard Craven William Fowle, the British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and representatives from the India Office and the Foreign Office (ff 189-193).