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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)' [43] (45/52)
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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immediately to consider a reorganisation of the present system.
Sir Gilbert Clayton was also authorised to inform King Ibn Sa'ud
that it was the present intention of the 'Iraq Government to retain
three advanced posts only, apart from such posts as might be required
for the protection of the trans-desert route and of a pipe-line, if and
when constructed, and apart also from posts so remote from the
frontier as clearly to be of no interest to His Majesty.
11. Sir Gilbert Clayton was, furthermore, instructed to repeat to
King Ibn Sa'ud the assurance of His Britannic Majesty's Govern
ment and of the 'Iraq Government that these advanced posts were
not designed for offensive purposes and that Nejdi tribes would suffer
no interference with customary rights of watering, grazing, and peace
ful movement at any of the points where advanced posts might be
established. He was to add that the two Governments realised that
friendly co-operation with His Majesty was a necessary condition of
the satisfactory administration of the tribal areas and the mainte
nance of peace in the desert, and that to this end they again suggested,
for his serious consideration, the appointment of frontier representa
tives on each side of the border who could confer together in the case
of raids or other frontier incidents and could apprise each other, as also
their own Governments, of any occurrence likely to disturb the
tribes and thus the peace of the border. He was further to state
that in order that King Ibn Sa'ud might be in a position to satisfy
himself that any advanced post maintained by the 'Iraq Government
was not being used for offensive purposes, and that there was no
interference with any Nejdi tribes in their legitimate pursuits, the
'Iraq Government would welcome periodical visits to these posts
by his frontier representative. Sir Gilbert Clayton was also instructed
to endeavour once more to persuade His Majesty to adopt the pro
posal put forward in May that the disputed words " in the vicinity
of the border " used in Article 3 of the Uqair Protocol should be
accepted as meaning within twenty-five miles of the frontier, except
in the vicinity of the trans-desert route and contemplated pipe
line, in which region, it was understood. His Majesty felt no objection
in principle to the construction of protective posts. In addition,
Sir Gilbert Clayton was authorised to inform His Majesty that,
subject to a satisfactory agreement being reached in the matter of
the advanced posts, the 'Iraq Government were prepared to conclude
arrangements with King Ibn Sa'ud in regard to hon voisinage,
extradition, the surrender of tribal offenders, the exchange of
diplomatic representatives, etc., on the lines discussed with His
Majesty's advisers on the occasion of Sir Gilbert Clayton s earlier
mission, and in terms which were understood to be acceptable to
His Majesty.
12. During the conversations of May King Ibn Sa ud had enquired
whether His Majesty's Government regarded the provisions of
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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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