'File 8/33 Saudi Arabia - Kuwait Weekly Diaries' [‎10r] (19/44)

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SR3CIAL S^iUDI ARABIA.
No* 4 of 1934.
POLITICAL AGENCY An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. ,
KUWAIT.
Dated the 10 th February 1934.
Weekly News from Saudi Arabia.
In continuation of my special Saudi Arabia No.3,
dated the 10th February 1934.
2. His Excellency the Shaikh reported on 12th February
that news from Riath had it that Bin Saud had ordered all the
camels of his Asir expeditionary force to return to Nejd as
there was an insufficiency of grazing for them in Asir. Such
an order if true, said His Excellency, would also serve the
purpose of preventing mass desertions from the front of which
there had been many instances lately.
3. nis Excellency the Shaikh informed me on 19th February
that according to Bedouin reports from Artawiyeh, a sharp fi^tit
had taken place near Ebha between the Mutair and Harb tribal
contingents of Bin Saud* The latter had been victorious at first
and had killed 22 men of the Mutair, but subsequently the Ataiba
came to the help of the Mutair and between them managed to turn
the tables on the Earb (A1 Firm). This inter faction fighting
in the Kings army had only been stopped after the Emir Saud
ibn Abdul Aziz had himself personally intervened.
4. Hearer to Kuwait and in the province of Kassa, a great
northward movement of the Awazim, Beni Khalid and Ajman tribes
has become evident during the last 10 days. The Awazim in
great numbers (sheep and camels) followed by the Beni Khalid,
have moved up into Kuwait territory and gone into the area
north-west of Jahara. The movement is due to scarcity of rain
in Hassa and good rain in the north, which has brought on the
grazing in remarkable manner both in the T Iraq southern desert
and/