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to him the under-mentioned documents :—
Jeddy printed letter No. 196 (1852|5j22) [Serial No. (72)] of the 22ikl
June 1934 :—
Description of Enclosure.
Name and date. Subject.
^ 0 Violation of Saudi territory by U.
t His Majesty’s Ambassador, A. F. Victoria, reroplane/
Hagidad (without enclosure).
Copy sent to :—
The Hon’ble the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bush ire,
No. 1870(5123 of the 24th June 1934.
Enclosure 5 to Serial No. (72).
Letter from His Majesty’s Minister, Jedda, to His Majesty’s Ambassador,
Baghdad, No. 1868|5|23, dated the 24th June 1934.
With reference to your telegrams Nos. 9 and 10 of the 21st June (Enclo
sures 1 and 2, ante), 1 have the honour to enclose a copy of a note (Enlcosure 3,
ante) which 1 have addressed to the Saudi Government regarding the landing
ot R. A. 1’. \ ictoria aeroplane at Jubail on that date. I assumed for the purposes
of my note that the landing was the involuntary result of inadvertence.
2. I take this opportunity of drawing attention to a statement in paragraoh
26 of^he^Intelligence Report of the Political Agent, Bahrain for May 1st to 15th
(F. No. 53-N.j34), that one of the flying boats employed in the recent reconnais
sance of Qatar landed at Jinnah Island on or just after the 11th May. T presume
that as I was not notified by telegraph of this landing, the flying boat did not
actually enter Saudi territorial waters. In view, however, of the importance
attached in the standing instructions to doing everything possible to obviate
protests by the Saudi Government, I suggest for the consideration of the Air
Officer Commanding that it might be well to advise me of causes in which it as
been necessary to land in the immediate vicinity of Saudi territory, in order to
enable me to meet, at once any Saudi: criticism.
3. I am sending a copy of this despatch to H. M. Principal Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs and the Hon’ble the Political Resident in* the
Persian Gulf, to whom I have already sent copies of Your Excellency’s telegrams
under reference and of the enclosure of this despatch.
(73)
(Deceived on 25Ih August 1954. with Political Secretary's letter, No. 32, dated
the 9th August 1934.)
Enclosure in Foreign Office, covering letter, dated 3rd August 1934.
Letter, from His Majesty’s Minister, Jedda, to the Foreign Office, No. 145,
DATED THE 14tH May 1934.
With reference to paragraph 9 of my despatch No. 133 of the 28th April, F
have the honour to enclose herewith one copy of the Saudi Green Book, whh h
was published in its complete form on the 29th April. It runs, as you will see, to
over 200 pages of close print, and I cannot hope to forward a translation ’ I
enclose a summary of the contents of the book. The plan of the principal chap
ters is to urovide a certain amount of explanation and comment in addition to the
numbered documents which form the major portion. Numerous as these docu
ments aie they certainly do not contain anything like all the correspondence
which has passed since 1927. I will give you one instance which is of present
importance. On the 8th May Fuad first spoke to me of the possibility of peace
on the basis of compliance by the Imam with Ibn Sand’s demands as formulated
at the outset of the present hostilities, subject to certain “ guarantees,” which
seemed to be ot a formidable character, as they were to include a rectification
of frontiers and an indemnity. I suggested, in a general wav, to Fuad Bey
that, as the King had persistently repeated his demands in their original form
it might be somewhat difficult to recede from the position that compliance with
them was the only condition of peace. Fuad Bey gently reminded me that a
treaty of friendship had also to be concluded and said that any question of