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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)' [7] (9/52)
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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of the disquieting and conflicting reports which reached 'Iraq at the
time of the conference at Buraidah, the continuance of active
reconnaissance as a precautionary measure was considered to be
necessary. You may add that His Majesty's Government would
not, in view of the terms of Article 6 of the Bahra Agreement, have
sanctioned these measures but for the critical conditions which then
obtained on the frontier. As already indicated in paragraph 5 of this
letter, His Majesty's Government regard this Article as applying to
British as well as to 'Iraqi forces, and intend to observe its stipula
tions. The reconnaissances were in fact suspended immediately
reassuring information as to the situation was received, and His
Majesty's Government much regret that the action taken should
have proved a cause of embarrassment to King Ibn Sa'ud.
7. From paragraph 27 of your report it is observed that King Ibn
Sa'ud proposes to prefer a claim to compensation in respect of losses
suffered by Nejdi tribesmen in the course of the operations carried
out by the Royal Air Force. His Majesty's Government cannot
regard any such claim as admissible, and you should do your utmost
to resist a claim of this nature if presented and to obtain full com
pensation for the 'Iraq Government both on account of the attack upon
the post at Busaiyah and on account of subsequent raids upon 'Iraqi
tribes. If, however, you are satisfied that there is no possibility
of securing both compensation from King Ibn Sa'ud for the Busaiyah
incident and at the same time the withdrawal of his claim in respect
of bombing operations in Nejd territory and that insistence on this
would have the effect of endangering a settlement, you are authorised
in the last resort to acquiesce in an arrangement whereby the claim
of the 'Iraq Government for compensation in respect of the attack
on Busaiyah would be set off against King Ibn Sa'ud's claim for
bombing operations and these two claims would then be allowed
to cancel out, while the remaining and financially more important
'Iraq claims in respect of subsequent raids would be referred to the
special tribunal contemplated in Article 2 of the Bahra Agreement.
8. In paragraphs 31 to 36 of your report you have recorded the
results of your discussions with King Ibn Sa'ud and of subsequent
conferences at Jerusalem on questions arising out of past raids
across the Nejd—Trans-Jordan frontier. You .are authorised to
inform King Ibn Sa'ud, as is proposed in paragraph 34 of your report,
that, although His Majesty's Government cannot admit a condition
such as that proposed in Clause 5 of the draft terms of reference to
the arbitrator who is to adjudicate upon past raids, they are prepared
to give him an assurance to the effect that the arbitrator will be fully
informed of his view that all past claims which were not officially
registered at the time of the raid or soon after should be excluded
from the purview of the arbitrator. You are also authorised to
adopt the procedure proposed in your report (paragraph 34) for
obtaining the agreement which will be a necessary preliminary to
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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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