IOR/R/15/1/579

The volume contains telegrams, letters, and reports relating to affairs between Najd, Kuwait, and Iraq. Most of the correspondence is between Lionel Haworth, the Political Resident in Bushire, Henry Dobbs, the High Commissioner in Baghdad, Ibn Sa'ud, the King of the Hejaz and Najd, Leo Amery, the Secretary of State for the Colonies in London, James More, the Political Agent in Kuwait, Cyril Barrett, the Political Agent in Bahrain, and Edward Ellington, the Air Officer Commanding in Iraq, with the Government of India and the Foreign Office in London regularly forwarding copies of correspondence.

The volume covers the effect of an attack on a frontier post at Busaiyah [al-Başīyah] in Iraq by the Mutair tribe of the Ikhwan under the leadership of Faisal al-Dawish, their subsequent rebellion, and a later raid by the same group into Kuwaiti territory.

The British response to the crisis is the subject of most of the volume, including the proposals and plans for air reconnaissance and bombing in desert areas, and endeavours to set up a personal meeting between Haworth and Ibn Sa'ud.

Other subjects are:

• details of the raids themselves;
• the danger of a large section of the 'Anizeh tribe residing in Iraq defecting to Syria because of the crisis;
• Ibn Sa'ud's own attempts to control the situation.