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seems to be true that further troops were sent to Asir, but these may have merely
gone t° relieve others. It is intended, following on the arrangement regarding
n ^ if- 1 T ? COrded in P ai a g ra P^ below, to organise the part of Asir in which
he had his being as an ordinary Saudi province to be called Asir Tihama, with a
local Governor under a Governor-General or Viceroy at Abha.
d of Police at Jedda was retransferred to his former post at
Kabigh m April and was replaced by one Khalil Bey, Director of Police at
Medina, who had held the post at Jedda two years previously. The removal of
the late director may have been partly due to the affair mentioned in paragraph
\ °l t i he J last Te P 0Tt and certain other grievances of the Legation against him,
which had not given rise to official action when they occurred, but were ventilated
m connexion with the incident of the 4th March. The new man is known to the
Legation and not unfavourably.
II.—F rentier Questions and Foreign Relations in Arabia.
63. The arrangements for the mutual recognition of each other by Ibn Saud
and the Amir Abdullah were completed according to plan on the 1st April. The
two rulers exchanged friendly telegrams, as had been arranged, next day. This
cleared the road for the initiation of treaty negotiations between the two Govern
ments with the participation of His Majesty’s Government in the United
Kingdom A mission from Transjordan Used in three contexts: the geographical region to the east of the River Jordan (literally ‘across the River Jordan’); a British protectorate (1921-46); an independent political entity (1946-49) now known as Jordan arrived in Jedda on the 22nd April.
It consisted of Colonel Cox, the British Resident at Amman, who was associated
as a British representative with His Majesty’s Minister at Jedda; and Taufiq
e} Abdul-Huda chief secretary to the Transjordan Used in three contexts: the geographical region to the east of the River Jordan (literally ‘across the River Jordan’); a British protectorate (1921-46); an independent political entity (1946-49) now known as Jordan Government as
representative of the Amir Abdullah; with Captain Glubb as expert. The
mission was received with great distinction. Its members, and Mrs. Cox were
entertained as Government guests at the Kandara villa. Formal negotiations
3 " 0 ”, the ^ d A prl1 and P ro< f eded actively, in a fairly favourable atmosphere
end? K ! ? St ° f h ® ?d th - A su “ lmar y account of them and of their partial
success but temporary failure to produce signed treaty texts will be given in the
iigxl report.
dnrinn a Ji?f re n °, neWS °! tr ° uble ? n the Saudi Arabia- Transjordan Used in three contexts: the geographical region to the east of the River Jordan (literally ‘across the River Jordan’); a British protectorate (1921-46); an independent political entity (1946-49) now known as Jordan frontier
am ing April. The only incident worth recording is the arrival at Mecca in the
company of the Amir of Tebuk, of one Karayim-bin-Atiya, whom the
Transjordan Used in three contexts: the geographical region to the east of the River Jordan (literally ‘across the River Jordan’); a British protectorate (1921-46); an independent political entity (1946-49) now known as Jordan authorities had decided, in the interests of the Saudi
Government, to put out of harms way in Palestine. After successfully
playing a double game, this man made his peace with the Saudi authorities and
now seems to be in high favour, all the higher because of the yarns he has spun
about the inducements held out to him in Transjordan Used in three contexts: the geographical region to the east of the River Jordan (literally ‘across the River Jordan’); a British protectorate (1921-46); an independent political entity (1946-49) now known as Jordan to work against Ibn Saud
00 I he Iraqi representative scored a partial success during April in his
negotiations regarding the properties of the Hashimite family in the Hejaz a
subject which interests His Majesty’s Government as one affectino- the personal
“ Xldh- A The A n dU ! lah ’ bUt ln / hich ^ are Unwillin K t?involve them-
sel\es officially. Ihe position was discussed during the conference between
was aure^wTh C f ° onel Cox Taufiq Bey and the Iraqi representative. It
was agreed that the former should not intervene for the time being bevond inti-
P nvat< r{y to l uad Be .y that he would welcome a settlement and had heard
with pleasure that the prospects were good.
66 . The question between Ibn Saud and the Imam of the Yemen regarding
the disposal of the Idnsi was settled late in March or early in April bv thf
iiM^P V° f the t° an , ari>an g e nient that Hasan-al-Idrisi should remain
m the l emen under the Imam s supervision and should receive a pension from the
Saudi Government It was hoped, on the Saudi side, that other reCees
mcludmg Hasan s brother, Abdul-Wahhab, would return under amnestv to Sand!
• rabia ’ but tj 1 . 18 hope is not known to have been fulfilled. The rumours’^of trouble
n Amr, mentioned in paragraph 61, have had their counterpart in rumours of
hpp ltary P re P araBons under sons of the Imam on the Yemeni side. There has
fresh 'danger ^ ^em^betw^en The* two Sove^ T n 7 ^XlhuZui
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