'File 61/14 XV (D 62) Relations between Nejd and Iraq (Akhwan Rebellion)' [‎280r] (569/595)

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THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HIS BRITANNIC MMESTY S OOVbRawj^
EASTERN ( A rabia).
CONFIDENTIAL.
February 26, 1930.
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to Lord Pass field. —{Communicated by de Colonial Uffi.ce,
February *26.)
(Confidential.) Bushire, January 31, 1930.
My Loid honour to submit a report on the negotiations and
carried out with King Ibn Sand regarding the surrender of the rebel A3
Mutair tribes. t t ^ 1 fo tT iq Mfliestv's Minister asking him to
I received your Lordship s telegram to His Ma] fl ^ , to come t0 Bushire
obtain the permission of the Persian Gover 11 men ^ , or ^-^ ia g ir p v Clive informed me
to take me to Koweit on the 16th January an . . permission to the Governor of
that the Prime Minister had telegraphed the rec l^^ P h following afternoon for
Bushire. As, however, the ma.l and torn™ onl/took one night,
Koweit. and I wanted to take two el< ; rkb , wlt f h ™^ e n c f ^ ^ 0W eit on the 18th J anuary,
I decided to proceed by steamer ^ i f ov me to arrive at Ibn Sand's camp
and found that Colonel Dickson had discuss i on with Colonel Dickson and
on the 20th. I therefore had a Pf ll ™^ a ^J i a ® t j' p roC eeded to Ibn Sand's camp
Air Commodore Burnett, and on the 20th inst of mysel f an d the other
bv air Most admirable arrangements .01 made bv the Roval Air Force,
members of the mission, secants luggage J «e ^ of ^ Wapitis
and we travelled m three Vietonas, ^ j tents, servants, cooks,
o, Ibn Sand had asked ^e bhmkh Kowe,t to ; upp ^ pitched for „ s
provisions, &c., for me and my P^ity ai accomm odated in comfort, whde the
some distance from Ibn ® ^"^teinents to maintain wireless communication
Roval Air Force made effi ' | difficulties at times.
with Koweit, despite serions atmospW ™ lone , Dick80n> of course, knew him
3. I had not met Ibn baud befon , he lagt saw himi an d his
well, and told me that he ^d aged^a had been those of an importan
manners had changed ; wheieas ■■ greater extent the manners of a Royal
Arab sheikh, he has now assumed ^ a ™udi - ians and Egyptians of the
personage, largely due Probably to the I"™ d ^ me t0 d U1
Eftendi type by whom he is our p ar tv were kept at some distance
accordance with the usual Arab c •■ > m {or al j discussions, fhe ostensible
from his camp, the King com ||^ j ri simplest style, and was not in a position
reason was that the Kingw "^dors and that he had with him a number o
suitably to entertain distinguished ' eas0 n, I think, was that certain sheikhs
his camp, and Ibn Saud was anxious that
we ^d^^tSionfto™ His Ma^ Govern^ they
would much prefer to av . old advanced by them, though at first sight
there was much force m th ,; mD lest course. After a full consideration,
deportation certainly see . med % ' j 1 a resu lt of my discussions wrth Ibn Saud
however, of all the issues and character, I believe it would have
and the impression 1 fot . m ® d 0 ; T , eaS ons ? His Majesty's Government have m the
been a mistake, for the „ for Ibn kud; they have supplied him
past given many agns of their ^ lanes with British personnel; the.
with arms and ammunition and even w ^ no facilitles should he accorded
have taken the most drastic measur o e , s n t t < itl , dp has been one of readiness to assist him
tolhe rebel tribes, and their his rebellious subjects. They had
as far as was m their power in ms stn , to ^im unconditionally, and had
of course, never offered to sumndei which they would be unable to eject
warned him that a contingency ^ght a If howeveri when this contingency arose,
the rebels from Koweit or Iraq to su ;, render the rebel leaders to him despite
HisMaiesty's Government h prepared to give to prevent raids by Nejdi
the very categorical u " d f takl "f r f t ® ry ^the future, and his undertaking to spare
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