IOR/R/15/5/98

The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, printed reports, memoranda, and notes, relating to miscellaneous topics concerning the Kuwait Agency from August to December 1924.

The discussion in the volume relates to the following topics:

• Ikhwan raids, 1924
• Proposed land mail service Kuwait-Zubair, 1924
• Attempt to send Persian consular representative to Kuwait, 1924
• Ikhwan advance on Jauf and Taif, 1924
• Biographical details of Dr Harrison and Dr Mann, 1924
• Slave traffic, 1924
• Fall of Taif, 1924
• Proposal to replace Iraq Post Office at Kuwait, 1924

The volume includes an index (folio 3) to topics discussed which includes the following index entries: administration report; air visit to Najd; Arabic correspondence; Faisal, Ibn Sa'ud's sons; Germans in Kuwait; Ibn Sa'ud's alleged letter to HMG; Ikhwan threat; Najd-Hijaz dispute; Post Office; Raids; Resident's visit; Shaikh Ahmad, presentation to; Shaikh Khaz'al; Slave Trade; SNO, Duties of; Trans-Jordania; Tribal Lists; Tribes.

The principal correspondents include: the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Francis Beville Prideaux); the Director General of Posts and Telegraphs, Iraq; the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Colonial Office, London; the Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf; the Office of Special Service, RAF, Basrah; the Ruler of Kuwait [Shaikh Ahmed al-Jabir al-Sabah]; the British Vice-Consul, Mohammerah [Khorramshahr]; HM Consul, Ahwaz; the General Manager, Anglo-Persian Oil Company; the Manager, Imperial Ottoman Bank.