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treatment and remained in seclusion in the Nursing Home to which
he had been admitted.

(c) To the regret of the entire population Shaikh Ali al
Khalifah, C.T.E • * the Director of Public Security and Governor
of Kuwait Town, died in a Sanatorium in the Lebanon in April.
A man of fine character and an administrator of ability he had

been in charge of Kuwait Town for some years and had controlled
the merchant element and settled the thousand and one disputes
of the individual inhabitants with the minimum of delay and much
fairness. A staunch supporter of the present Huler he was

honoured by His Majesty The King with a Companionship of the
Indian Empire on the 1st of January but did not live long enough
to be invested. After a long illness during which he was atten­
ded by the doctors at the Arabian Mission Hospital his health

improved sufficiently to enable him to return to the Sanatorium
at which he had resided in 1941 but unfortunately his death
occurred very shortly after his arrival there.
W Shaikh Ali al Khalifah, C.I.E • i was succeeded as

Birector of Public Security by Shaikh Abdulla, the last surviving
son of the famous Shaikh Mubarak, grandfather of the present
Ruler. Shaikh Abdulla is now about 30 years of age and is a

progressive man with a capacity only too rare in Arabia,for
getting things done. 7or some years he understudied Shaikh \li
al Khalifah and had acted for him on numerous occasions. He is

a supporter of the Buler and would undoubtedly be a serious
rival to Shaikh Abdulla As Salim for the Amirate on the demise
of the present Buler were it not that his mother was a Georgian!
slave, it being a custom of the Subah tribe that the Buler must

be of tribal blood on both sides and this custom has so far never
been altered^though there is little doubt that such a custom
would have formed no permanent impediment to the progress of

Shaikh Abdulla’s father who wrested the Amirate from his two
elder brothers by the simple expedient of shooting them both on
the 8ame>morning,.

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