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Coll 6/80 'South and South-Western boundaries of Saudi-Arabia' [3r] (5/140)
The record is made up of 1 file (68 folios). It was created in 8 Oct 1936-1 Mar 1937. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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376/106/ 91)
350 .
i/516/61)
British Legation,
Jedda.
29th leeember 1936.
/Ji
The Right
cIC • }
Sir,
I had the honour to receive your views on Hr. Philby 1 a
entry into the Aden Protectorat« f in your telegram H o. 135
dated December 5th. I should have preferred to riispose of the
matter by another conversation with Fuad Bey, but by then he had
left for Riyadh for a stay which might extend to several weeks,
and I therefore wrote to the Amir Fey sal the letter of which
a copy was sent to you under Ho. 319 on T ecember 8th. The reply
of December Elst, which was forwarded in translation under No.
329 of December £2nd, was not satisfactory. The Saudi author
ities continued to defend themselves, which was not necessary,
as their disclaimer had been accepted. On the other hand they
put forward what was obviously a defence supplied by Hr. hilby,
including the Irrelevance ©bout the vagueness of the frontier
and the impertinence about hie readiness to show his British
passport had there been any frontier authorities to show it to.
And they assumed, as the King of the Yemen assumed when
complaining of a similar incursion by Mr. Philby into the
Yemen (this was reported to the Colonial Office in Aden despatch
to. 544 dated November 7th) that as a British subject Mr*
Philby ought to be punished by Nis Majesty’s Government if he
had committed any offence against the laws and regulations of
the Aden Protectorate. I was about to reply to this letter
when/
onourable Anthony Kden, M.C., M*P.,
Ac., Ac.
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This file relates to the disputed south and south-western boundaries of Saudi Arabia. It primarily concerns an expedition to southern Saudi Arabia that was undertaken by Harry St John Bridger Philby in 1936, during which Philby was reported to have entered Yemeni and British territory. Much of the correspondence discusses Philby's visit to Shabwa [Shabwa, Yemen] (reportedly with an armed Saudi party), a visit considered by the British to be an incursion into the Aden Protectorate.
The file's principal correspondents are the following: His Majesty's Minister at Jedda (Sir Reader William Bullard); the Acting Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. , Aden (Morice Challoner Lake); Harry St John Bridger Philby; the Minister for Saudi Foreign Affairs [Fayṣal bin ‘Abd al-‘Azīz Āl Sa‘ūd]; the Sultan of Shihr and Mukalla; the Imam of Yemen [Yaḥyā Muḥammad Ḥamīd al-Dīn].
In addition to correspondence the file includes Philby's own account of his visit to Shabwa, in an article published in The Times in January 1937.
The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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- 1 file (68 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 70; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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- Coll 6/80 'South and South-Western boundaries of Saudi-Arabia'
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- front, front-i, 2r:9v, 12r:13v, 18r:41v, 43r:43v, 46r:52v, 56r:57v, 59r:59v, 62r:63v, 66r:69v, back-i, back
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