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'File 61/14 III (D 47) Nejd and 'Iraq, relations between, (Mutair raid on Busaiyah etc.)' [191r] (400/453)
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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EASTERN (Arabia). February 27, 1928.
CONFIDENTIAL.
Section 1.
[E 995/1/91] No . !,
Consul Stonehewer-Bird to Sir Austen 27.)
(No. 18.)
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. 16 ^ lonour transmit herewith a translation of a letter of the 25th
ultimo addressed to me by King Ibn Saud from Eiyadh. On this letter and on
1 s comments thereon was based my telegram No. 4 of the 7th instant,
fhe King had unfortunately at the time of writing not received the
communication addressed to him in accordance with the instructions contained in your
telegram No. 1 of the 13th January.
3* ma kes no mention of His Majesty's Government's invitation to meet
Colonel naworth, though I gather from paragraph 15 of Bagdad Intelligence Report
No. 1 of 1928 that the invitation accompanied a protest against the Mutair raid of the
9th December, and the " warning " referred to by him in the second paragraph of the
Kings letter may be the "invitation."
4. Ibn baud has received Hafez Wahba's report from Koweit; he is surprised
that the building of a post at Busaya is not regarded as a breach of the Uqair protocol.
He gives as evidence that it must be so considered his own refusal to allow Nejdi
tribes to build at Lina and other water holes near the frontier. Lina is more than 30
miles in a straight line from the nearest point of the neutral zone.
5. Ihe King is convinced that the building of the Busaya post was an act of
intentional provocation calculated to cause friction between himself and Feisal-
ud-Doweish.
6. The King view 7 s with disfavour the proposal conveyed through Hafez Wahba
that the question of building should be referred to a commission of arbitration. He
wishes the question to be settled as between himself and His Majesty's Government,
and is confident that the latter will see the justice of his contention.
7. He then draws the attention of His Majesty's Government to the very critical
position in which he now stands. He is faced with one of two risks : either to
silence Nejd opinion by force of arms, and the whole of Nejd may be against him, or
by not doing so to find himself in conflict with His Majesty's Government—an
alternative opposed both to his wishes and to the interests of Arabia.
8. He begs His Majesty's Government to find a solution to his difficulties by
removing the present causes of friction ; a definite settlement must be arrived at, both
as regards the building of posts and the harbouring by Iraq of Nejdi raiders.
9. I discussed the King's letter very fully with the Director of Foreign Affairs
before despatching my telegram under reference. I told Dr. Damluji that I would
certainly telegraph, but that I could not w r ire the letter in extenso, first because I had
already reported the Nejd point of view fully by despatch, and His Majesty's letter
brought out no new points, and, secondly, because the communication which on your
instruction I had addressed to Ibn Saud was an answer to the King's request for your
assistance. I begged Dr. Damluji to use all his influence to induce Ibn Saud to accept
the invitation to meet 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.
at Bushire. Colonel Haw r orth was entirely
independent of Iraq and could have no anti-Nejd bias.
10. As regards Ibn Sand's accusation against Iraq of harbouring Nejdi raiders,
I pointed out that the persons referred to were claimed by Iraq as Iraqi subjects.
Ibn Saud fears that if Feisal-ud-Doweish takes refuge in Iraq he will be harboured
there. I said that I thought his fears in this respect were surely groundless.
11. Neither the production of maps nor photographs will, I fear, convince Ibn
Saud that Iraq were justified in building a post at Busaya. He understood the wells
in the vicinity of the frontier to mean all wells in the desert area usually frequented
by tribes of both sides. His refusal to allow building to be carried on around wells in
his own territory is evidence of his belief. In the absence of any mention in the
protocol of a definite prohibited radius, it is certainly difficult to say at what distance
from the frontier posts may be erected without infringing the terms of the agreement.
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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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