'File 8/7 I Jidda Intelligence Reports' [‎114v] (228/536)

nrnmWH ass “ a §®® e " t with ‘he Imam Yahya, a support which was readily
Wrt t rt . ? helkt l, Ab ^ u , llah Suleiman paid a further visit to Jedda on the
Julj, and saw Mr. Calvert on that day and again on the 1st August, when to
an icipate the report for next month, he had to impart the serious news that the
baudi delegation was being forcibly detained in Sana, and that no communication
was peimitted between the delegates and their own Government, or, indeed the
^ S \ de ^ ld - J hls new development, which had only come to their knowledge
the day before through the receipt of a telegram in cypher to an intermediary
.ere purporting to have been sent by Hamad Suleiman, the Minister of Finance's
cSrtLr^d\vThd e nll 4 f dele S ation > though an intermediary in Sana, was
llntct Ct il !} Abdu la u eimat ! as contrary to civilised usage and neighbour-
noticp of rtt M» d ’ . who y as further incensed, asked that it be brought to the
Thinh °. H M u jeSty S Govermn ? nt > Pointing out the impossible situation into
which he was being manoeuvred. The month ended with steadily risino-
: ,n71 a , T S ' a !'. ea ft ln ^audi Arabia, and unless some olive branch be offeree^
;, d f fu'chly. by the Imam Yahya, all the sedative and restraining counsels
that can be ottered will be of little avail. , 6
the effeei 13 t h J uly, a note was received from the Saudi Government to
the eflect that about the third week in June two men of the Arab Legion in
r)at. nS il°RiH n f elzed d* number of camels belonging to the Sherarat, grazing at
Dan-al-Bid, drove them oft and threatened the tribesmen with seizure of camels
Th6 ^ referred to the author,tS
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Relations with Powers outside A rabia.
i ^ rea ddy understood from foregoing paragraphs that Anglo-
renort ibl^nr S contlnue , ver y {nendly. The report at paragraph 123 of last
nrnLiliii pressure was being brought to bear on British subjects and British-
p ''jfyrd jiorsoi's from Africa to adopt Saudi nationality, is thought to have been
Tl hn° U i nde f b r t >lr ; 4ndrew R .yan s note seems to have had a salutary influence,
as complaints, formerly numerous, have now almost, though not entirely ceased’
A d ®', e ‘ 0 Pm e nt of this, and of the campaign to clear the country of" idle and
Hcen^fnf f 0 ' eigner K (r ® ferenc ? .Paragraph 144), is the refusal ‘to renew the
cnees of foi eign chauffeurs, driving Government-owned motor vehicles. There
is a steadily growing volume of complaints on this score.
fl,l K f h fu 24 4 h July His Majesty's Ambassador at Bagdad reported that
a flymg-boat of the Royal Air Force had been forced by engine trouble to alrdit
coast’ 11 ' terrlt ° ria wa f ers ’ ^ud was 1 y in f? off the jinna Islands on the Hasa
t . ® 4 A spate engine was flown down on the following day in view of the risk to
nvoX Th, a T” d C t reW ’ 3 Se T d “fringement of Saudi sovereignty being
«; /J/vw i t Legation was subsequently informed through the sloop’ H.M.S
fifdth ’a WhlC K W f S a , S0 stand ‘ n ? by ’ and by the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. ,^Bushire
,mme r ba,eh H inf b0 l 5° Safely ° n the , 29th - T be Saudi Government was
immediately informed of the occurrence, and was notified of subsequent develop-
fXm-ebk’hfft 8 n0t 't lntl i he 29 f th that a reply was received from the Minister
tor Foieign Affairs noting the information, expressing regret at the unavoidable
^mXnfatST ^ ^ ^ ° f ^ ^
lo3 The ( mm-al-Qura of the 7th July announced that the Saudi Govern-
ment had received an invitation from the Egyptian Government to be represented
at the forthcoming International Postal Conference to be held at Cairo The
invitation is stated to have been accepted.
aKo 154 ' A" Andlew and Lad y Ryan left Jedda on the 16th July on leave of
absence. They were to spend a few days at Jerusalem on their way home in
connexion with the Saudi- 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 Conference. "
155. Nasir Bey-el-Gaylani the Acting Iraqi Charge d'Affaires, went on
leave on the 5th July, leaving a clerk in charge of consular work only
attitude nf°tL th X d p Uly ’ Slr Andre w Ryan asked Fuad Bey Hamza what the
attitude ot the Saudi Government would be if an English clergyman wished to