ملف ١٩٢٦/٨٧ الجزء ٣ "الجزيرة العربية: ابن سعود: مفاوضات المعاهدة" [و‎‎٣‎٦‎٧] (٨٩٥/٧٢٦)

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’’The recommendations of this council must not be
conorary to the provisions of the international sanitary
conventions. The Trench and British Governments declare
that in so far as concerns the sections of the railway
°yria, Palestine and’ransjordania,, any profits
realiselwill be devoted to the upkeep andimprovement of
the whole of the railway. Any sums left over after such
improvement will oe devoued to the assistance of pilgrims
It/ appears that, under an arbitral award
given by Professor Borel at Geneva in April 1925, the
H-edjaz Railway was the State property of the Ottoman
Empire anu that the ownership of it has passed to the
States in wnich it is now situated under the first
paragraph of Article 60 of the Treaty of Lausanne.
In 1925, Ton Baud fcaised the question of
repairing and opening up the entire railway, and was
informed that His Majesty’s Government w r ere considering
sympathetically this suggestion. We then proposedto the
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Frencn Government that they should co-operate with us,
and on their concurrence, proposed as a preliminary to
the opening of negotiations with Ibn Baud, that Trans-
Jordan should put in order the section of the railway
runningthrough that territory, and that the negotiations
for a re-distribution of the stock in the hands of
Palestine and Syria, which had formed the subject of
protracted correspondence, should be settled without
further delay. It was proposed that the two Governments
should then approach Ibn Baud jointly, requesting him to
repair that portion of the railway which lies within the
Hedjaz, and to inform him thatjthe two Governments would
guarantee an adequate train service as far as the
frontier to link up with whatever service Ibn Baud might
establish on the section under his control; and that a
meeting of local railway experts from Syria, Palestine,
Trans-