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'Report by Sir Gilbert Clayton, K.C.M.G., K.B.E., C.B., on his Mission to the King of Hejaz and of Najd and its Dependencies, for the purpose of negotiating a settlement of outstanding questions. (April-June, 1928)' [‎34] (36/96)

The record is made up of 1 volume (48 folios). It was created in Aug 1928. 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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orders whieh His Majesty had promptly issued to his Governor
at Jaui. I added that I wished to seize this opportunity of recording
the appreciation of the Trans-Jordan Government.
• 5 ' I t i, pr0 u e f! d ^ draw His Majesty's attention to the fact that
since the Hadda Agreement there had been a notable diminution
m raids from Trans-Jordan into Najd, which showed that the
Irans-Jordan Government were doing their utmost to act up to the
terms of that agreement. I informed him that the Amir Abdullah
had two years ago summoned the principal Trans-Jordan Shaikhs
and secured undertakings from them that they would not raid an
action which had undoubtedly contributed greatly towards'the
improved situation on the frontier. This was in May, 1926 and
Tran^ Sn 0 ^^ 0 T t w Cated by the Hi & h Commissioner for
ffinSt dirt n t J T ad taken place Since that date -
nis Majesty did not refute my statements, but embarked on a
wvirus to The H drt SC T Se ab0Ut the raids Which had taken
previous to the Hadda Agreement. To this I replied that all those
oft" r rbftX re XT d \ y ' he a " a "g em ents for the appointment
01 an arbitrator which we had already discussed.
6 His Majesty then raised the question of an Extradition Am-PP
ment with the Trans-Jordan Government, anrexpressef the dSire"
countr^^as^^s^ow^'being^iscussed fort^f the tWO
Najd Government and tSf He between the
natme tle i exprSmvit 1 ' 6 With0Ut an ^men^of tlhs
£ ss=a=SISS Sir?
."EdiSt 'byTSnTX S.
representative^ at E^ghdad ^nd 6 Jeru^le'm a f P p01 " tment Na i d
looking after the interests of his countrv a Td n i P "r rp0Se 0f
Palestine and Trans-Jordan respectively P P In Iraq and
by him presmte^^n^'advantaeeVT aS SUJ ?8 cSted
to closer mutual understanding asking him'atth do ubtIess lead
he wished this arrangement to be ^dprocal t,n ; e
raise any definite objection to reciDroritv fhA ? t dld not
particular reason for it is Hk R + sa he saw 110
Consul in Jedda was able to dfall Ma est y' s A gent and
interests of 'Iraqis and Trans-torda^ 1° Pr0teCt the
it would be necessary for the 'Iran r ' add ed, however, that
Kingdom of the Hejaz and Naid t0 reCC « nise the
spoke with some heat on tWs y . had n0t yet done - He
situation which had been created V the "Cq Govetmenf .n

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This printed booklet, produced by the Colonial Office in August 1928, is an account of Sir Gilbert Clayton, His Britannic Majesty's Commissioner and Plenipotentiary, on the first part of his third mission (April-June 1928) to ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd (Ibn Saud), King of Hejaz [al-Ḥijāz] and Najd and its Dependencies. The purpose of the mission was to negotiate outstanding questions mainly concerning boundaries of and relations between Ibn Saud's territories and Iraq and Trans-Jordan following the Hadda and Bahra Agreements of 1925, and the Treaty of Jeddah of 1927.

Clayton was accompanied by George Antonius, Assistant Secretary to the Palestine Government; Kinahan Cornwallis, Adviser to the Ministry of Interior in Iraq; Captain John Bagot Glubb, Administrative Inspector in the Iraq Government Service; Flight-Lieutenant G M Moore; and Bernard Henry Bourdillon, Counsellor to the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. in Baghdad. The Najd delegates included: Dr Abdullah Damluji [‘Abdullāh al-Damlūjī]; Shaikh Yusuf Yasin [Yūsuf Yāsīn]; Shaikh Hafez Wahba [Ḥāfiẓ Wahbah]; and Shaikh Fuad Hamza [Fu’ād Ḥamzah].

A page of contents and list of annexes appears on folio 2v with the following sections:

There is one appendix which consists of Colonial Office letters of instruction to Sir Gilbert Clayton, dated 17 April 1928 (folios 43v-47). The front cover is marked 'Confidential' and 'Printed for the use of the Colonial Office'. Clayton's account is continued in 'Middle East No. 28', 'Report by Sir Gilbert Clayton, K.C.M.G., K.B.E., C.B., on his Mission to the King of Hejaz and of Najd and its Dependencies, for the purpose of negotiating a settlement of outstanding questions. (July-August, 1928)' (IOR/L/PS/20/E90/2).

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1 volume (48 folios)
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There is a table of contents, a list of annexes and an appendix, which make reference to page numbers in the volume.

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Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the front cover, and terminates at the inside back cover; 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. The volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.

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