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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)' [8] (10/52)
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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the appointment of the arbitrator. You have been informed of the
views of His Highness the Amir of Trans-Jordan in regard to the
draft terms of reference to the arbitrator, and it is understood that
you will bear them in mind when framing the notes which you
propose to address to the Hejaz and Trans-Jordan Governments,
setting out for their acceptance the conditions on which the arbitrator
is to be appointed. As regards the proposal at the end of paragraph 36
of your report, you may assure King Ibn Sa'ud that the Trans-
Jordan Government are taking prompt and adequate measures to
deal with the situation created by recent raids carried out by
Trans-Jordan tribes who are subject to him. The High Commissioner
for Trans-Jordan has been requested to furnish you with full par
ticulars of the action already taken by the Trans-Jordan Government
in the matter. He has represented that it is important that King
Ibn Sa'ud should take similar action in regard to the attack made
by the Ruwala tribe on the Beni Sakhr tribe in February last. When
communicating to His Majesty the proposed assurance on behalf of
the Trans-Jordan Government you will no doubt obtain a similar
undertaking from him and, if possible, a statement of the action
already taken by him to deal with the situation created by the raid
of February last.
9. Subject to an acceptable arrangement in the matter of the
advanced posts. His Majesty's Government trust that you will do
your utmost to secure a satisfactory conclusion to the negotiations
for a
Bon Voisinage
An agreement or treaty based on principles of 'good neighbourliness', often signed between countries which share borders.
Agreement and an Extradition Agreement
between Traq and Nejd which were in progress when your conversa
tions with King Ibn Sa'ud were temporarily suspended. In the
interval the Traq Government will doubtless have had an oppor
tunity of considering the report of their own representative at
Jeddah on the questions raised in those negotiations and will now
be in a position, where necessity exists, to put forward revised
proposals.
You are authorised to inform King Ibn Sa'ud that His Majesty's
Government view with favour the proposal for the conclusion of
similar agreements between Trans-Jordan and Nejd and are prepared
to advise the Trans-Jordan Government to enter into such agree
ments subject to the settlement in due course of satisfactory drafts.
10. In paragraphs 41 and 42 of your report you refer to the desire
of King Ibn Sa'ud to appoint accredited Nejdi representatives in
Baghdad and Jerusalem. This proposal has been communicated
to the Traq Government who have expressed their willingness,
subject, of course, to an acceptable arrangement in the matter of
the posts, to receive accredited representatives of King Ibn Sa'ud
and to accord to His Majesty the formal recognition of his regime
in the Hejaz which the reception of his representative would entail.
They would moreover desire to reciprocate the arrangement by
appointing an accredited 'Iraqi representative in the Hejaz. It is
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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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