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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. (July-August, 1928)' [5] (7/52)
The record is made up of 1 volume (26 folios). It was created in Jan 1929. 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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5
'Iraq frontier representative would not necessarily be a British
official. In regard to the question of the type of garrison con
templated for the advanced posts I am to enclose for your information
and guidance copies of a telegram addressed to the High
Commissioner for 'Iraq on the 16th of July, and of his reply *
4. In the earlier paragraphs of your report you have recorded
in some detail the views expressed by King Ibn Sa'ud as to the
meaning and intention of the disputed words " in the vicinity of
the border " used in Article 3 of the Uqair Protocol and you very
rightly pointed out that, although His Majesty's interpretation of
the words in question may find some support in the Arabic text of
the Article, that interpretation is one which had never been con
templated and cannot be accepted by His Majesty's Government.
Clearly the phrase stands in need of more precise definition and,
in order to remove the present ambiguity and thus eliminate the
possibility of further dispute by the adoption of an agreed definition,
His Majesty's Government would suggest that the phrase should be
accepted as meaning within 25 miles of the frontier. In proposing
this definition to King Ibn Sa'ud you should make it clear that His
Majesty's Government regard as excluded from the scope of Article 3
of the Uqair Protocol any posts which may be required in connection
with the protection of the trans-desert route and pipe-line (if con
structed), to which as an essentially British interest His Majesty is
understood to have no objection in principle.
5. As regards the question raised in paragraph 12 of your report,
namely, that of the intention and effect of Article 6 of the Bahra
Agreement, I am to authorise you to inform King Ibn Sa'ud in
writing that His Majesty's Government regard this Article as
applying to British as well as 'Iraqi forces. You may also assure
His Majesty that His Majesty's Government intend to observe the
stipulations of this Article and that British forces will not cross the
common frontier in pursuit of offenders. In the case, however,
of an organised attack on a township or post—as opposed to a mere
tribal raid—or in the event of a series of raids with which His
Majesty proves himself unable or unwilling to deal, His Majesty's
Government must reserve to themselves the right to take such action
as they think fit. When communicating this assurance to King
Ibn Sa'ud you should, as suggested in paragraph 20 of your report,
take the opportunity of inviting King Ibn Sa'ud to explain the mean
ing which he attaches to the term " forces " in Article 6 when applied
to the forces of Nejd. His Majesty's Government agree that it is
advisable, in order to preclude the possibility either of genuine
misunderstanding or of equivocation on his part in the future that
an acceptable definition of what must be held to constitute the
" forces " of Nejd should be obtained from King Ibn Sa'ud.
* 59106/28 [No. 90]; not printed.
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This printed booklet, produced by the Colonial Office in January 1929, is a continuation of the April-June 1928 account of Sir Gilbert Clayton, His Britannic Majesty's Commissioner and Plenipotentiary, on the second part of his third mission (July-August 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 annexures appears on folio 2v with the following sections:
- 'Colonial Office to Sir Gilbert Clayton, K.C.M.G., K.B.E., C.B., 19th July, 1928 (Letters of Instructions)' (folios xx);
- 'Sir Gilbert Clayton, K.C.M.G., K.B.E., C.B., to Colonial Office, 3rd September, 1928 (Further Report on his Mission)' (folios XX);
- 'Record of Proceedings' (folios XX);
- 'Memorandum on the Proceedings of the Sub-Committee Meetings' (folios XX);
- 'Draft Note on the Arbitration of Raids between Najd and Trans-Jordan' (folios XX).
There is one appendix which consists of a Foreign Office letter to the Acting British Agent and Consul, Jeddah, dated 1 November 1928. The front cover is marked 'Confidential', 'Printed for the use of the Colonial Office' and 'In continuation of Middle East No. 25', '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)' (IOR/L/PS/20/E90/1).
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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 circles, 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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