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POLITICAL RESIDENCY FOB 1011.
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Only five vaccinations were performed during the year, of whioh three

1 reserved vaccine from Belgaura which is being supplied now.
P Quarantine.—Until the end of June passengers arriving from infected
norts were detained in boats to undergo the quarantine period. In July,
however, it is satisfactory to note, the Shaikh was induced to establish
better quarantine arrangements, and when Basrah and Mohammerah were
cholera-infected in August and Bahrain in December, passengers were iso­
lated on Kurain Island where tents were pitched for their accommodation
and water and supplies sent daily from the town by the Shaikh.
Abdul Mehsin, the Shaikh’s Customs Master who had sole control gf th6
management of the Customs, over­
Custom* Administration.
reached himself in August and his
peculations and overbearing attitude towards the merchants were at last
brought to the Shaikh’s notice. Shaikh Mubarak therefore deputed Haji
Ali, formerly the British News Agent in Kuwait, to keep all accounts of the
Customs receipts and payments jointly with Abdul Mehsin and gave him an
Arab clerk to help in*the work. The measure seems to have satisfied
merchants.
The following ships of His Majesty’s
N»ral isd Marine.
Navy and Royal Indian Marine visited
Kuwait during the year:—
H. M. S. “ Philomel,” on 27th January and 18th February.
H. M. S. “ Highflyer,” on 21st April.
R. I. M. S. “ Palinurus,” on 29th September 1911.
R. I. M. S. w Lawrence ” visited Kuwait five times during the year.
His Excellency Rear-Admiral Sir Edmond Slade, K.C.I.E., M.V.O.,
Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Squadron, with the Political Resident
visited Kuwait in the “ Highflyer ” accompanied by the “ Lawrence ” in
April. The usual visits were exchanged with the Shaikh.
Despite the vigilance of British men-of-war in the Gulf of Oman and
the Shaikh’s express orders prohibiting
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his subjects from importing arras into
Kuwait, systematic attempts are still being made to smuggle arms by some
arms-dealers, mostly Persians,
In April 1911, an attempt to smuggle a number of revolvers was made
hr a Nakhuda, Haji Sadeck, from Maskat, but they were discovered by tho
Customs Master.
In the same month a “ boom ” in charge of one Ebrahim bin Mishal as
Kakhuda was captured by the Navy with arms on board and taken to Jask.
The “ boom ” was returning from India and at Maskat the Nakhnda took
nfles on board for conveyance to Kuwait and was promised $10 per rifle as
This M boom,” however, was found to belong to a Katr Arab, the
.Nakhuda being a Kuwait.
A shipment of 25 cases marked K. R. B. from Antwerp purporting to
contam loaf-sugar, transhipped at Bombay, readied Kuwait without detec-
lon ln the British India Steam Navigation Company’s S. S. * Palamcotta
n rje 24th July. After the steamer had discharged five capes ope case was
Incidentally broken in being lowered into the lighter alongside the steamer
werc 8800 P^ed between the layers of sugar-loaves. The Captain,
^ the absence of the Political Agent, refused delivery and overcamed tbs
^^Wpment to Basrah to be disposed of under the Political Bwdeats

i \ similar shipment containing arms which was on its way to Kpwatt
m Antwerp was intercepted by the Customs authorities in Bombay.
the end of July it was reported that a Persian by name Khalil had
Ppcd some arms in a boat for Rohilla, but no definite news could be obtain©**-