IOR/L/PS/10/1238

The volume concerns the defence of the frontier of Koweit [Kuwait] against raids by Akhwan [Ikhwan] tribesmen (also referred to as 'Wahabis') from the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd, and the activities of the Akhwan along the border with Kuwait and Iraq.

In addition to India Office correspondence and memoranda, the file includes correspondence from: the Colonial Office; the High Commissioner for Iraq; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; the Political Agent, Kuwait; the Air Ministry; the Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf (SNOPG); and the Foreign Office.

The papers cover: the use of motor cars, armoured cars and machine guns in the defence of Kuwait; the supply of arms to the Shaikh of Kuwait; tribal movements; reports of raids (e.g. folios 474-476, description of fighting at Riqa'i involving the Mutair [Muṭayr] in 1928; and folio 165, description of raid on Iraq tribes, 1929); naval support for Kuwait from Royal Navy ships and landing parties; proposed air reconnaissance of the Kuwait frontier; the attitude of the Akhwan to Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] (e.g. folio 295); intelligence concerning raids; the death of a United States citizen at the hands of Akhwan raiders (folios 156-196); the policy on Nejdi refugees from Ibn Saud entering Kuwait, March-May 1929; and reports on 'Relations with Kuwait' by Captain John Bagot Glubb, Administrative Inspector-in-Charge, Southern Desert, Government of Iraq (folios 64-83).

The file includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references contained by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.