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'File 61/11 IV (D 77) Hejaz-Nejd, Miscellaneous' [98v] (206/366)
The record is made up of 1 volume (182 folios). It was created in 17 Feb 1930-4 Apr 1932. 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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a lure. Their inherent aversion to bolshevism, their interested stand against
Soviet trade, and M. Turakulov's persistent efforts to obtain further concessions
have probably been the main factors of delay.
5. In Jedda a humbler method obtains for raising the wind. The
merchants having now been relieved, on loan, of nearly all their cash, are required
to lend their stock-in-trade to the local treasury official. He thereupon knocks it
down at auction for what it will fetch, spot cash. I am assured that this means
was resorted to in order to pay for the official dinner with which the Finance
Minister was greeted on his recent return from Medina. Little wonder that the
local tradesmen feel sore, so sore that even the venerable Governor of Jedda,
himself a merchant who has been heavily dunned for loans, hailed the Indian vice-
consul in full market the other day and asked him how he could evade further
extortion. As the Governor is very deaf, the
Munshi
A term used in the Middle East, Persia and South Asia to refer to a secretary, assistant or amanuensis. Munshis were employed in the British administration in the Gulf.
w T as much embarrassed for
reply.
6. With regard to expenditure, I hear through a credible channel that Ibn
Sand is no whit less extravagant than before, and that observers at Riadh are
shocked 1 at his lavish hunting parties. His Minister in London, on the other
hand, has recently been telegraphing for funds. The arrangement with Messrs.
Gellatly, Hankey and Co. for the supply of credit to cover the needs of missions
abroad (Sir A. Ryan's despatch No. 291 of the 16th July) was not concluded after
all, but I learn confidentially from the manager of the local Dutch bank that the
Finance Minister succeeded during the last week of August in collecting
£300, which the bank remitted to Sheikh Hafiz Wahba. Fortunately the season
is over.
I have, &c.
C. G. HOPE-GILL.
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The volume contains letters, telegrams, and memoranda relating to Hejaz affairs. Most of the correspondence is between the British Legation in Jeddah, 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 Foreign and Colonial Offices in London, and the Government of India.
The majority of the volume concerns the internal affairs of the Kingdom of Hejaz-Najd and its Dependencies, especially the financial difficulties it was experiencing at the time and attempts to counter them.
Other subjects covered are:
- the prospect of the Kingdom joining the League of Nations;
- the appointment of a Minister in London;
- al-Qusaibi's proposed visit to London;
- the different uses of the title "Sheikh";
- American recognition of Ibn Sa'ud as King;
- the mineral prospecting of the American millionaire Mr C. R. Crane;
- American appraisal of the water situation in the region;
- the religious policing activities of the Committee of Virtue in the Hejaz;
- the arrest of two members of the royal family between Kuwait and Zubair;
- the territorial dispute between Ibn Sa'ud and Yemen;
- relations between Ibn Sa'ud and Italy.
A notable document within the volume is a confidential report on the heads of all foreign missions in Jeddah (folios 163-164).
At the back of the volume (folios 165-170) are office file notes.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (182 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is arranged chronologically. There is a partial and non-alphabetical list of subjects at the front of the volume (folio 2). The list identifies some of the earlier subject correspondence in the volume and where it occurs, according to its original numbering, as folios 17 to 41a.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: The sequence starts on the first page with ff 1A-1D and then continues from f 2 to the inside back cover. The numbers are written in pencil, circled and 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 are the following anomalies: f 38A; f 91A; f 108A; f 128A; f 146A; there is no f 119.
There are two more sequences that are inconsistent and incomplete.
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- Title
- 'File 61/11 IV (D 77) Hejaz-Nejd, Miscellaneous'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 1ar:1dv, 2r:38v, 38ar:38av, 39r:108v, 108ar:108av, 109r:128v, 128ar:128av, 129r:146v, 146ar:146av, 147r:158v, 159v:160v, 161v:174v, back-i, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence