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'File 61/14 II (D 46) Relations between Nejd and 'Iraq' [7r] (24/466)
The record is made up of 1 volume (231 folios). It was created in 7 Jan 1927-31 Dec 1927. It was written in English and Arabic. 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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[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty 's Government.]
ENCLOSURE TO DESPi
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EASTERN (©#N)Ftfe£NTlAL OP " [December 4, 1926.]
CONFIDEN TIAL. S ection 1.
[E 6655/367/91] No. 1.
Acting Cousul Mayers to Sir Austen CJidTifiherlciiu.—{Received December 4.)
(No. 133. Secret.)
^ r ' Jeddah, November 1^2^.
1 HA VE the honour to forward herewith my report on the situation in the Heiaz
during the period the 1st to the 31st October, 1926.
Copies of this report are being sent to Egypt, Jerusalem (2), Bagdad, Aden,
oimla, Beirut (for Damascus), Khartum (through Port Sudan) and Singapore.
I have, &c.
NORMAN MAYERS.
Enclosure in No. 1.
Jeddah Report for the period October 1 to October 31, 1926.
DURING the period under review the steamships which tramp the Red Sea
ave not tailed to disembark at Jeddah the one or two interesting oddities who
appear to visit the mournful shores of the Hejaz at regular periods in the quiet
interval between pilgrim seasons. The first to arrive was a certain Ahmed Zaky
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
, coming from the Yemen.
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Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
is an old Egyptian ex-official of garrulous habits and
-baistaman port, who recently made a trip to Sanaa in order to collect for the Moslem
press whatever notes on subjects of geographical or historical interest he could pick
up mere. He at the same time imposed on himself, which was more important, a
mission of mediation between the Imam Yahya and Ibn Saud. With neither prince
did he have any measure of success. It is rather like the case of Colonel House
I ogether with his companion, Nabieh Bey-el-Azmeh, a Syrian of Egypt, the
pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
has now returned to the comforts of Egypt, having accomplished nothing,
but declaring that strife between the two rulers of the Jazirat-el-Arab would
inevitably end m the weakening of Islam. It had been hoped that Ibn Saud would
be induced to appoint Nabieh Bey-el-Azmeh as his agent in Sanaa for conversations
^ itii the Imam, The King, however, thinks that no useful purpose would be served
by such an appointment.
3. Another traveller to the Hejaz has been a certain Dr. Wolfgang von Weisl
who landed with an unkempt beard and Arab head-dress, but who turned out to te
a Palestinian journalist from Tel Aviv. He had with him the works of Doughty
Burton and Philby and declared his intention of exploring the obscured Nefdian
oases which Mr Philby m his investigations had not been able to cover. He was
not, of course, allowed to proceed, and I doubt whether he came to the point of askinsr
P e r '" mis f lon - , But he dld g et an interview with Ibn Saud, in the course
the Imam 3 7 made an mterestin g declaration of his policy with regard to
4. " I have no particular quarrel," he said, " with the Imam Yahya and I
am at peace with him. On the other hand, I have nothing specially in common with
onhr' r f 61118 t0 that Asir is ^ useful buffer between us. But that is not the
tatL tifu ^ W t 0 j ee continue to exist. The Idrisi is my son and has
f l' ™ shelter under my shadow. I cannot for that reason sit still and see Sabia and
t t swallowed by the Imam. I shall be forced to take action if the Imam attempts
to take those two places. I am strong, and I have troops.'" attempts
of what Ibn Sarid eVery chance l , 1 of bein g an accurate account
01 wnat ibn baud actually said. It seems reasonable to suppose that Ibn Sand
has far too much to do in his own dominions to desire war P agLnst any of ht
neighbours. It is no easy task to control Nejd, with its vast frontiers and unrulv
S ho T ' b0th • !, d a , n d migratory, and the Hejaz, with the mass of thorny
these parp C0n0mi ^ n ^ Ji? gl0ll - S ( l uestlons inherited along with its sovereignty To
ese cares are added the anxiety of making the next piWimag-e a DolitiVnl anrl
nancial success, the question of relations with the outside Moslem world and with
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The volume contains letters, telegrams, and memoranda relating to affairs between the British Mandate of Iraq and the Kingdom of Najd and the Hejaz, ruled by Ibn Sa'ud. Most of the correspondence is between the Political 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 Bushire, the Political Agencies in Bahrain and Kuwait, the High Commissioner in Baghdad, the Colonial Office in London, the Government of India, and Ibn Sa'ud himself.
The majority of the volume contains documents relating to affairs along the Najd-Iraq border and is concerned with planning and preparations for a tribunal to settle claims for compensation between the two parties, as stipulated in the Bahra Agreement. The latter half of the volume contains documents relating to an attack by Ikhwan forces on a military post in Basaiyah [al-Başīyah], Iraq, that marked the beginning of the Ikhwan Revolt.
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- 1 volume (231 folios)
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The volume is arranged chronologically.
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Foliation: the sequence starts from the spine (which has been separated from the volume) and terminates on the inside back cover. The numbers are written in pencil, circled, and are found 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. There are the following irregularities: 1A, 1B, and 1C; 2A and 2B. A second, inconsistent sequence runs between folios 3-223. The numbers are also written in pencil in the same place as the main sequence, but they are not circled.
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