Abstract: Correspondence and papers concerning regulations introduced by the Government of Saudi Arabia. Although reference is made in the file title to coastguard regulations, the majority of the file is dedicated to regulations introducing a prohibition on the import, sale and possession of firearms in Saudi Arabia. The correspondence, exchanged between British Government officials, discusses the introduction and implications of the firearms regulations for Saudi Arabia and its neighbours, specifically Kuwait, Bahrain, and the shaikhdoms of the Trucial Coast. The file includes an English translation of the firearms regulation, originally published in the Saudi newspaper
Umm al Quraon 3 Sha‘bān 1354, equivalent to 31 October 1935 (ff 9-14).The file’s principal correspondents are: the Political Agent at Kuwait (Captain Gerald Simpson DeGaury); the British Minister at Jedda (Andrew Ryan); the Foreign Office (George William Rendel); the India Office (Maurice J Clauson).Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 37; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 3-35; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
Abstract: The file contains papers relating to the Iraqi armed forces, mostly concerning the introduction of conscription in Iraq under a system of National Service. The file also includes papers regarding the military policy of the Government of Iraq, and the concern of the chief of the Iraqi General Staff about the possibility of an attack on Iraq by Iran.The papers mainly consist of correspondence between HM Embassy at Baghdad (Sir Francis Henry Humphrys, George Arthur Ogilvie-Forbes, Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, Sir Charles Harold Bateman), and the Foreign Office (Sir John Simon, Sir Samuel Hoare, Anthony Eden), copies of which were sent to the Under Secretary of State for India. The file also includes India Office Political Department minute papers.In addition, the file includes a copy letter from the Chancery of HM Embassy, Baghdad, to the Political Agency at Kuwait (with a copy of the Kuwait Intelligence Summary for the period from 1 to 15 April 1939), and a letter from Trenchard Craven William Fowle, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire, to Roland Tennyson Peel of the India Office, regarding the moving of the Basra Garrison to Zubair.The file includes a divider, which gives lists of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 55; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.