ملف رقم ٢١٨٢ لسنة ١٩١٣ الجزء ١٠ "الحدود الشمالية الغربية: البعثة الروسية المقترحة المختصة بعلم الحيوان" [ظ‎‎٢‎٩‎٠] (٦٦٤/١٧٢)

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However on returning to Khurma the second time, the cadi threw off all pretence
However, on returning ^ ;oug enthuslasm gamed many adherents.
0I ”t o'?S..wn-w-ed«*
him to take up his duties or to recognise his appointment, and openly
hadjoinedthe Akhwan ibn ^ rul ; ng a t of the latter’s
territory wouki lbn Saud have quietly acquiesced in an important official of his being
and appointed by him, would he have kept
quiet knowing that complaintTto His MajSy'sGovern-
al l o ^such^flagrant a^ertion n ^at e *IDiaHd n is' o^'of
Ibn Sand’s governors on the statement that Khahd was m receipt of some salary from
Ibn Sand before his revolt. This is bv no means unlikely ; indeed, it is probable that
when Khalid joined the Akhwan, Ibn Sand paid him some sort o stipend for propaganda
and pohtkal purposes, a financial investment which has Foved h^h y profile,
10 Soon after Khalid raised the standard of revolt, Mi. Hhilby passed tnrou
Khurma (December 1917), and it is interesting to note how the situation
to him or, the spot.. In the account of his journey from Riadh to iaif fArab bulletin
No. 81, page 74, dated 9th March, 1919), Mr. Philby writes as follows:—
“ Khurma is inhabited mainly by Subai tribesmen, who at the moment of our
arrival were all out in the desert, leaving the village to their slaves and women and to
the Jew merchants, mainly representing Washm, who reside here in connection
the he'cause of the^Wus of the tribesmen with the local Emir—a shereef—appeared
to be that the latter had incurred the displeasure of the Shereef of Mecca by emhi aem|
the Wahabi faith or perhaps had embraced the W ahabi faith hecaiibe ne ha .
tt shereef’s displeasure, alid that the Shereef of Mecca has commissioned he hmir of
Turaba and the Buqum tribe to attack the rebels of Khurma as occasion offered
“The'place was therefore virtually m a state of siege m the sense that no exit wa
allowed to L people in the direction of the Hedjaz, while the warriors of the S U, and
Buqum were trying to out-manoeuvre each otiier in the vast plains be h) y
and the Hadhu hills.”
It will be noted that Mr. Philby writes of the “ rebels of Khunna.” Thus Khalid
and those inhabitants of Khurma who revolted with him were described to ill. flu >
^ b Mr S Biadh for some time. His escort was imposed of
Neidis supplied by Ibn Saud, and it is probable, though 1 have no information o -
STthatVi Saud sent a responsible sheikh or a member oi^is entourage wffh h>m
‘ When passing through Khurma,district Mr. Philby records the fact ^
given to him at the time, that the Emir and some of the inhabitants of Khurma
open ^lebelho^u against canllot c orrectly be described as lieing ‘ l state 01
revolt against King Hussein if it forms an integral part of Ibn Sands dommion, ^ ^
Surely if Khurma belonged to Nejd some one member of the escort 01
sheikh or Arab would have informed Mr. Philby of the fact. . . Kh qq
11 As I have frequently pointed out, the Khurma episode has its origin m Khafict
joining the Akhwan movement and eventually openly revolting.