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'File 61/14 III (D 47) Nejd and 'Iraq, relations between, (Mutair raid on Busaiyah etc.)' [99r] (210/453)
The record is made up of 1 volume (221 folios). It was created in 31 Dec 1927-13 Feb 1928. It was written in English and Arabic. 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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posGibie for ta in the noar future to fix a time
for our meeting ae w© are not keeping well on account
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Oi fcka cold we are now having and secondly owing to the
fieavy work now at Najd which we ought to do, and which
requires settling and finishing up* As regards the
information conveyed in the message about the attack cf
Dawish on al Ghalidh of Bani Eukaim near Urbaibah in the
neutra.1 zone, this attack was not a gins t Iraq and was
not felt by the Iraq Government but we consider it to
be an attack against us and we felt it more than the
Iraq Government. The situation in Najd after the
recent actiontr; of the Iraq Government has changed a
gxeat deal and it does not allow us to do all that we
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want and desire® We will give the reason^ here which
want to be conveyed to the Hon'ble the
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.
for the information of Kis Majesty's Government so that
when a meeting takes place between us and }lis Honour he
will be in possession of all the necessary Instructions
in this matter and their details.
W& do not want to conceal it from you that there is
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no man, woman or child in Kajd who was not very much
disappointed owing to the building of Bi^saiyah^forV
bj' the Iraq Government* And t 'e next disappointment
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that followed it was due to two actions of the Iraq
Government. First they (Iraq) welcomed the criminals
whom we wanted to punfeih on account of,Iraq Government
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as they have done in the past in the case of Yusuf as-
Sadun and his Najdi followers and as they did recently
in the case of Bin Mijlad when we puafcehed him on
account of the Iraq. He ran away to them and they gave
him a shelter and offered him help. Secondly the coming
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of the Iraq officials^and their mixing with our tribes
and asking them to run away from our country^and instigat
-ing them to cause trouble in our country. For this
reason the Najd people felt it very much. When we want ti
send them to punish the Dawish they say M we do not
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The volume contains telegrams, letters, and reports relating to affairs between Najd, Kuwait, and Iraq. Most of the correspondence is between Lionel Haworth, the 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. in Bushire, Henry Dobbs, the High Commissioner in Baghdad, Ibn Sa'ud, the King of the Hejaz and Najd, Leo Amery, the Secretary of State for the Colonies in London, James More, the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. in Kuwait, Cyril Barrett, the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. in Bahrain, and Edward Ellington, the Air Officer Commanding in Iraq, with the Government of India and the Foreign Office in London regularly forwarding copies of correspondence.
The volume covers the effect of an attack on a frontier post at Busaiyah [al-Başīyah] in Iraq by the Mutair tribe of the Ikhwan under the leadership of Faisal al-Dawish, their subsequent rebellion, and a later raid by the same group into Kuwaiti territory.
The British response to the crisis is the subject of most of the volume, including the proposals and plans for air reconnaissance and bombing in desert areas, and endeavours to set up a personal meeting between Haworth and Ibn Sa'ud.
Other subjects are:
- details of the raids themselves;
- the danger of a large section of the 'Anizeh tribe residing in Iraq defecting to Syria because of the crisis;
- Ibn Sa'ud's own attempts to control the situation.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (221 folios)
- Arrangement
This volume is arranged chronologically.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: The sequence begins with the spine, which has been separated, and ends on the inside back cover. The numbers are written in pencil, circled, and found in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. There are the following irregularities: 1A, 1B, and 1C; 3A, 3B, and 3C.
There is a second sequence running from ff 4-212. It is also written in pencil in the top right corner, but is not circled and is inconsistent.
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- Title
- 'File 61/14 III (D 47) Nejd and 'Iraq, relations between, (Mutair raid on Busaiyah etc.)'
- Pages
- front, spine-a:spine-b, front-i, 1cr:1cv, 2r:2v, 3ar:3cv, 4r:27v, 29r:56r, 56r:56v, 56v:95v, 98r:147v, 150r:154v, 158r:161v, 163r:216v, back-i, back
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