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Telegram
From - Politloal, Bahrain.
To - Oivoom, Bahgdad
- Political Kuwait
Eepeatad (by post) Political, Buahire
Ho. '73,^ '
Datad 1st July 1920•
lour 7870• Private letter to Shaikh of Bahrain from Hejd
source stated reliable gives following version recent reports
Shammar Alchwan affajr# Begins#
About 10th June Ibn Rabian Shaikh Ataibah with Akhwan
attacked section JBUiKB and HUT AIM tribes at BAITHA HATHAIL sixty
miles west EAIL captured all their camels losses both sides
approximatfciy 500• Later Al Harb oounterraided camp Shammar
who recently converted to Akhwanism at Guara 20 miles west xuxai;
^usaiba. Harb raid successful Shammar Akhwan practically wiped
out• Ends•
Above confirmed by mainland Bedouin^ sources. Bin Saud
writing me from ftiath on 24th June re: Kuwait affair makes
mention anything unusual. Present is regular season for
Bedouin to Ghazzu.^y opinion little importance need be attached
stories fighting which are obviously only ordinary raids.
According v ^usaibi relations between Bin Saud and Bin Raschid i
continue friendly.
Addressed Baghdad repeated kuwait,^Bushire by post
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