'File 8/15 Arab Series - 1933-1939' [85v] (170/434)
The record is made up of 1 file (214 folios). It was created in 31 Aug 1933-20 Mar 1939. It was written in English and French. 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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of different lieadiixgs of commodities imported was only 108 in 1352 as compared
with 149 in 1351, These figures, partial and approximate though they may be
and although they relate, except for the last part of 1352, to the years prior to the
period covered by this survey, are nevertheless of some interest.
12 . The picture drawn in the foregoing paragraphs may indicate a far from
satisfactory condition, but it is not one of wholly unrelieved gloom. Whilst
there is still considerable and serious destitution amongst the poorer classes, which
the distribution of food and clothing by Ibn Sand and the charity of the well-disposed
do little to alleviate, the cost of living is not appreciably higher to the Hejazi.
Rents, on the other hand, have fallen considerably in Mecca and Jedda, and, in the
latter town, building of new houses, in itself not a symptom of economic depression,
is going on on all hands. Rains in the Hejaz have been plentiful everywhere
during the autumn, and reports are satisfactory from many parts of Nejd. Ibn
Sand therefore is issuing, it is announced, seed to cultivators and a good harvest in
due course will do much to repair the ravages of past privations.
13. I am sending a copy of this despatch to the Principal Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs, Department of Overseas Trade.
( 12 )
Memorandum No. 164-S., dated the 31st January 1935.
The Hon'ble 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.
in the
Persian Gulf
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presents his compli
ments to :—
1 . Foreign Secretary to the Government of India,
2 . His Majesty’s Minister, Jedda, and
3. The
Political Agent
A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency.
, Bahrein,
and has the honour to transmit to him a copy of the undermentioned document :—
Reference to previous correspondence :
Description of Enclosure.
Name and Date.
Subject.
Demi-official letter No. 163-S. of 31st Jan- Ibn Saud.
uary 1935, to J. G. Laithwaite, Esq.,
C.I.E., the
India Office
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, London.
Enclosure to Serial No. (12).
Demi-official letter from the Hon’ble the
Political Resident
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in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
, Bushire, to the
India Office
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, No. 163-S., dated the 31st
January 1935.
I was interested to see that in the Kuwait Intelligence Summary No. 1 of 1935,
paragraph 6(d) confirmed Philby’s opinion given in paragraph 300 of Jedda Report
for December 1934 that Ibn Saud was incurring some unpopularity by wasting
his time limiting instead of attending to business.
2 . Paragraph 6 (g) also confirmed the statement in the same paragraph of the
Report that the rumours of jealousy between Faisal and Saud were at least ex
aggerated.
3. Paragraph 6(h), however, if correct, indicates that there is a serious rift
in the Saudian lute between Ibn Saud and his brother, Mohammad, and this is
possible as being more or less in the nature of things amongst Arabs. On the Arab
coast of the Gulf, for instance, where enmity exists in a Shaikhly family, more
often than not it is at its acutest betwen the Ruler and one of his brothers.
I am sending copies of this letter to Metcalfe, Ryan and Loch.
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The file contains the Foreign Office confidential prints of the Arabia Series for the years 1933 to 1938. It includes correspondence, memoranda, and extracts from newspapers. The correspondence is principally between the British Legation in Jedda and the Foreign Office. Other correspondents include British diplomatic, political, and military offices, foreign diplomats, heads of state, tribal leaders, corporations, and individuals in the Middle East region.
Each annual series is composed of several numbered serials that are often connected to a particular subject. The file covers many subjects related to the affairs of Saudi Arabia.
Included in the file are the following:
- a memorandum on Arab Unity produced by the Foreign Office dated 12 June 1933 (author unknown), folios 11-13;
- a memorandum on petroleum in Arabia produced by the Petroleum Department dated 5 August 1933 (author unknown), folios 23-26;
- a record of interviews with Ibn Sa‘ūd, King of Saudi Arabia, conducted by Reader Bullard and George William Rendel between 20 and 22 March 1937;
- a memorandum on Yemen by Captain B W Seager, the Frontier Officer, dated 20 July 1937;
- several records of proceedings of ships on patrol in the Red Sea, including that of HMS Penzance , Hastings , Colombo , Bideford , and Londonderry .
Folios 213-15 are internal office notes.
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- 1 file (214 folios)
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The file is arranged chronologically.
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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the back cover with 217; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are 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. An additional foliation sequence is also present in parallel between ff 2-215; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence.
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- 'File 8/15 Arab Series - 1933-1939'
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- front, front-i, 2r:6v, 7v:9r, 10r:13r, 14v:18r, 19r, 20r:22r, 23r:46r, 47r:57v, 58v, 59v:61v, 63r, 64v:66v, 68r:76r, 77r:86r, 87r:88v, 89v:103v, 105r:111v, 112v:120v, 121v:122r, 123r:127r, 128v:131v, 133r:137v, 138v:143r, 144v:154r, 155r:175r, 176r:181v, 182v, 184v:196v, 198r:198v, 201r:204v, 206r:207r, 208r:212r, 213r:216v, back-i, back
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