IOR/L/PS/10/1244

The volume concerns the situation on the frontier between the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd, Iraq, and Koweit [Kuwait], in terms of the conflict between the King of Hejaz and Nejd, Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd], and the Akhwan [Ikhwan], (frequently described as 'rebels' or 'insurgents'), and their leader, Faisal al Dawish (and various other spellings) [Fayṣal bin Sulṭān al-Dawīsh].

In addition to India Office correspondence and memoranda, the volume includes correspondence from: the High Commissioner for Iraq; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; the Political Agent, Kuwait (Lieutenant-Colonel Harold Richard Patrick Dickson); the British Agent and Consul, Jeddah (William Linskill Bond); the Colonial Office; the Foreign Office; the Air Ministry; and Ibn Saud.

The papers cover: list of Akhwan attacks on Iraq tribes, 1 July 1928 to 31 May 1929, including numbers of persons killed (folios 574-577), which the Foreign Office wished to bring to the attention of the Hejaz Government; the High Commissioner of Iraq's rejection of complaints by the Hejaz Government against Captain John Bagot Glubb, Government of Iraq, August 1929; the activities of Faisal al Dawish; the possibility of an influx of refugees into Kuwait, October 1929; the measures of Ibn Saud against the Akhwan; complaints by Ibn Saud that insurgents had received support from Iraq and Kuwait, September 1929; a report that the Rualla [al-Ruwallah] were intending to attack Ibn Saud from Transjordan, November 1929; Ibn Saud's determination to 'annihilate' the rebels (folio 344); the use of air reconnaissance; the activities of members of the Mutair [Muṭayr] and Ajman [‘Ajmān] tribes; intelligence reports by the Political Agent, Kuwait, including a report on the 'Battle of Injair', between members of the Mutair, Ajman, and Awazim [‘Awāzim] tribes, October 1929, with sketch map, folio 283; British ratification of the Shaikh of Kuwait's decision to allow the defeated Awazim to take refuge in Kuwait, December 1929; a request from Faisal al Dawish for an interview with the Shaikh of Kuwait and the Political Agent, Kuwait, November 1929 (folios 172-177); and correspondence concerning a request from the Hejaz Government for the supply of armoured motor lorries for transporting troops across the desert, January 1930.

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.