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this document is the property of his britannic majesty's government
EASTERN (A rabia ). August 26, 1935,
CONFIDENTIAL, / S ection 3.
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Mr. Calvert to Sir Samuel Hoare.—{Received A ugust 26.)
(No. 223. Confidential.)
• Jedda, August 4, 1935.
I HAVE the honour to submit herewith the usual annual report on the
pilgrimage to the Holy Places of the Hejaz in 1935. It has been prepared on the
same lines as the report for 1934, enclosed with my despatch No. 254 of the
11th August, 1934.
2. It gives me pleasure to place on record once again my appreciation of
the excellent worik of the pilgrimage officers of the Legation and of their conscien
tious and exhaustive reports, from which this general survey has been compiled.
The experience and wide knowledge of Khan Bahadur Ihsanullah, the Indian
vice-consul, have proved very valuable, whilst Haji Abdul Majid, the Malay
pilgrimage officer, Dr. Abdul Hamid, the Indian medical officer and
Mr. C. Ousman, pro-consul, whose first year of pilgrimage work this is, have
made useful contributions and deserve my thanks. I am indebted to their
respective staffs, in particular to Shah Jehan-al-Kabir, principal assistant to
the Indian vice-consul, for much laborious work undertaken in typing this report.
3. As in the past two years, copies of this despatch and enclosure are again
being sent only to the Government of India (Foreign and Political Department),
the Government of India (Department of Education, Health and Lands) and the
Government of the Straits Settlements. It will doubtless be circulated in piint
to other authorities interested in the pilgrimage.
I have, &c.
A. S. CALVERT.
Enclosure.
Report on the Pilgrimage of 1935 {A.H. 1353).
(1) Introductory and general
(2) Statistics
(3) Quarantine ...
(4) Health
(6) Internal transport
(6) Customs
(7) Keligious policy
(8) Mutawwifs .. •
(9) Pilgrimage tariff and
pilgrimage ...
(10) Indian pilgrimage
(11) Afghan pilgrimage
(12) Malay pilgrimage
I ndex.
Paragraph
cost of
1
(13)
43
(14)
44
(15)
57
(16)
89
110
(17)
112
(18)
117
(19)
128
136
(20)
172
177
(21)
Paragraph
... 197
... 203
... 206
African
... 211
... 213
West African pilgrimage
Somali pilgrimage ...
Sudanese pilgrimage
Zanzibari and East
pilgrimage ...
South African pilgrimage ...
Palestinian and Transjordanian
pilgrimage ...
Pilgrimages of Adenese and natives
of the Aden Protectorate
Muscati, Bahreini and Koweiti
pilgrimages
Sarawak pilgrimage
216
222
227
231
(1) Introductory and General.
It is agreeable to be able to record in the compass of a few lines that Saudi
Arabia, since the last report was rendered, has passed a year relatively unvexe
by serious disturbance, internal or external. Withm her own borders peace and
security have remained unbroken, and with her neighbours her relations hav
been uniformly correct, and, with Iraq in particular, fuendly. e rea y
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