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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)' [34] (36/52)
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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6. With regard to {d), I informed the King's advisers that His
Majesty's Government and the Amir of Trans-Jordan were prepared
in principle to agree to the appointment of a consular representative
in Jerusalem accredited to Palestine and Trans-Jordan, but that the
appointment would naturally be governed by the established
conditions of international usage, such as formal recognition. The
King's advisers stated that that would follow as a matter of course.
I seized the opportunity of questioning them about the objects
which the Hejaz-Najd Government had in view in proposing the
appointment of a representative in Jerusalem. They stated that
for some time past their subjects had experienced difficulties with
regard to customs dues on trade passing through Palestine and
Trans-Jordan in transit from Syria to Najd or the Hejaz and vice
versa ; and other difficulties of a similar nature connected with
passports and transit formalities. They added that the King
had in mind the possible conclusion of a Customs Agreement with
Trans-Jordan, and that the appointment of an accredited repre
sentative in Jerusalem was a prelude to the ultimate conclusion of
such an Agreement.
7. With regard to (e), I should explain that, some time previously,
the " Umm al-Qura," which is the official (and the only) newspaper
in the Hejaz and Najd had published a report to the effect that the
Trans-Jordan tribesmen who had set out to raid the Ruwala at
Hazim in April last had been led by the Amir Shaker, the cousin of
the Amir Abdullah. This report was a mischievous perversion of
the truth. What had happened in point of fact was that, when
news of the projected raid on the Ruwala reached the authorities
in Trans-Jordan, the Amir Abdullah ordered his cousin to overtake
the raiders and urge them to turn back ; this the Amir Shaker was
successful in achieving, and the raid never took place.
8. A despatch from Jerusalem on the subject had been received
by His Britannic Majesty's Agent and Consul in Jeddah, with a
request that he should protest to the Hejaz-Najd Government about
the report which had appeared in their official organ. This despatch
was communicated to Sir Gilbert Clayton by Mr. Stonehewer-Bird,
and it was agreed that the protest should take the form of a verbal
observation and that I should communicate it formally to the King's
advisers. I did so at my last meeting with them. As the occurrence
in question had taken place before I had started on the Mission in
April, I was able to speak to the King's advisers from personal
knowledge. I said to them that Sir Gilbert Clayton did not wish
to send up a formal protest in writing because he did not wish to
attach undue importance to Press reports ; but that he thought it
desirable at the same time that the King should be informed of the
true facts of the case.
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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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