مجموعة ٢١/٣٠(٣) "الخليج الفارسي: العلاقات الكويتية-السعودية: الحصار من قبل ابن سعود. التهريب: اتفاقيات حسن الجوار وتسليم المجرمين" [و‎‎٢‎٨] (١٠٣٣/٦٠)

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alleges that Brr^a^lrn- 43 as._hetrayed. the Arabs. His Highne
•added that he had telegraphe^tri^ congratulations to-the
High Commissioner and to the Colonial--&ecretary.
" < ^ notable and happy event occurred this week in tb^
'• relations of Kuwait with its great neighbour Saudi-Arabia.
Some 20 years ago, certain difficulties caused the cessation
of the trade that used to' flow freely from Kuwait into the
interior of Arabia. Prolonged efforts to solve these
difficulties have at last, through the v/isdom of His Majesty
King ABDUL AZIZ AL SaOUD, King of Saudi Arabia and His
Highness Sheikh Sir AHMED IBN JaBIR AL SUBAH, Sheikh of
( Kuwait, been crowned with success. Agreements dealing with
trade, friendship and neighbourly relations, and extradition
between the two states, were initialled last Tuesday, and
will come into force before the end of the present month.
The successful outcome of the find! stage of the negotiations,
which took place at Kuwait, was due in considerable measure
-go the helpful attitude of His Excellency Sheikh HaFIZ 7AHBA,
the Minister for Saudi-Arabia in London, and representative
of that OOlmt.-p-V i n +y-|P>oo -rw^rrr>+ -i Q 4 -
British Government and the Government of the Yemen, which
we announced in our broadcast of the 23rd February, that
negotiations shall now begin for the settlement of the
southern frontier of the, Yemen, it is learnt that Mr. R.S.
Champion, who will represent the British Government, arrived
at Aden on the 4th of this month.
late Sayid Rustum Haidar, late Iraqi Minister of Finance,
wa\ yesterday adjourned until Mar'ch 10th.
has described a visit which he recently paid to the head
quarters of the Transjordan Frontier Force. This force,
he states, is ready for an instant call to -arms. Reservists
have already bee'n called up and the 'closest 'cooperation is
being maintained with the French in Syria. In the event of
war the force would probably have the position of advance
guard of the British forces encamped in the Near East, and
its motto is "First into action and last out". It is an
Imperial unit under British officers. About half of them
are Moslem Arabs, and more than a quarter Christian Arabs.
Gf the remainder, most of them are Circassians, but there
are also Egyptians, Sudanese, Druses and Jews, v/ith a small
number of Europeans. It is an ideal reconnaissance unit.
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Reuter s special correspondent in the Near East,