IOR/R/15/5/130

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 between Iraq and Kuwait.
• The suggestion to establish joint Iraqi-Kuwait preventive service to operate on land and sea.
• The suggestion to appoint a British Customs Director at Kuwait.

The British Embassy, Baghdad communicated with the Iraqi Ministry for Foreign Affairs regarding the Shaikh of Kuwait’s complaints against Iraqi customs. The correspondence also has references to complaints and incidents which are discussed in the previous volume in this series– IOR/R/15/5/129 'File 2/2 II Kuwait-Iraq Smuggling'.

The volume also includes reports on the number of cases of smuggling within 1934 and 1935, the smuggled goods including sugar, coffee, tea, tobacco and the values of these items. It also includes records of meetings held at the Foreign Office, London, to discuss the question of smuggling, and it includes notes on Syed Hamid Beg al-Naqib, Deputy for Basra in the Iraqi Parliament, and his visit to Kuwait in April 1935.

Among the correspondents in the volume are the Political Agency, Kuwait, the Political Residency, Bushire, the Shaikh of Kuwait, the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, New Delhi, the Secretary of State for India, London, and the Foreign Office, London.