IOR/L/PS/12/4114A

The file concerns the Post and Telegraph Office in Kuwait and its development, to sustain the growing oil industry in Kuwait.

The file contains:

• Proposed transfer of the control of the Post Office from Iraq to the Government of India, 1925-29
• Proposed abolition of the Iraq Post and Telegraph Office at Kuwait, 1931
• Proposed diversion of the Basrah-Kuwait telegraph line, 1931
• Statements showing the expenditure and the income of Kuwait Post Office during the years 1926-35
• Proposed establishment of wireless station at Kuwait to take the place of the existing Post and Telegraph Office administered by the Iraq Government, 1932-38
• Proposed agreement between Kuwait and Iraq, concerning administration of Kuwait postal, telegraph and telephone services, 1932-33
• Extract of commercial agreement between ruler of Kuwait and Kuwait Oil Company, 1934
• Participation of Iraq in Empire Air Mail Scheme, 1939
• Sharing of revenues between Kuwait and Iraq, 1940.

The file is composed of correspondence between: the High Commissioner for Iraq; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; the Director General of Post and Telegraphs for Iraq; the Government of India, the Foreign Office; the India Office; the Political Agent at Kuwait; the Ministry of Economics and Communications of Iraq; the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iraq; the ruler of Iraq [King Fayṣal bin Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī]; the ruler of Kuwait [Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ]; the British Embassy at Baghdad; Charles Harry Clinton Pirie-Gordon; Kuwait Oil Company; the Treasury; Frank C Strick and Company Limited; and Imperial and International Communications Limited.

There is a document in Arabic with English translation in the file, a letter from the Political Agent at Kuwait to the ruler of Kuwait, and the translation of an article, from the newspaper Al-Bilad. There is also a document in French, a letter from the Bureau International de l'Union Postale Universelle.