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TT owcit lias boon drawn into tlio vortex of the Persian Gulf Politics only
AV since 1890, when its late Sheikh Mahomed was murdered. This
Prdcis therefore deals mainly with Koweit affairs during the period that
followed that event.
I havo collated together, however, all official references to Koweit that could
be traced on our records before 1896, a few non-official references being printed
in Appendix A.
The following matters affecting Koweit are treated in more detail in other
Precis:—
(*) Question of Importation of arms in tho Precis of the Arms Traffic
in the Persian Gulf.
(ii) Visits of European and American Foreigners and Foreign Ships
to Koweit in tho Precis of Foreign Influences in the Persian
Gulf.
(itt) Slave Traffic in the Precis of Slave Traffic in the Persian Gulf.

Important declarations of policy or statements of important facts, will, it
may be noted, be found italicized in this Precis, for the sake of easy reference.
It may be mentioned here that in the year 1901 tho question as to the
status of Koweit subjects having arisen out of the seizure of arms on the
JIathnr, the nacoda of which was said to be a merchant of Koweit, the view
taken by Her Majesty’s Government was that “as Koweit is not under formal
British protection, natives of that country cannot be claimed as British protect­
ed persons or justiciable to British Consular Tribunals in Persia. ” The same
question has recently been again raised in various cases ; but as the point is still
under consideration and undecided, the correspondence on the subject has not
been brought out in this Prdcis.
J. A. SALDANA.
25th September 1904.