'15/2 NOTE ON WAHABI PORTS - SAUDI ARABIA - SAUDI TRANSPORT.' [8r] (15/38)
The record is made up of 1 file (19 folios). It was created in 9 Jun 1930-9 Aug 1942. 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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v »ncloaure to ?£*• C» Trott’s despatch No*X77 of I>eceiaber 88th.
193 .
Copy of Captain tie Gaury’s letter dated Klyadh Decensber 15th., 19d>\
to Mr. Trott.
My journey to Dhahron was a hurried one but here is a short
note on the track.
Kiyadh to Ma f agala (UMM A JkJLA would b© correct but pedantic)
300 kilometres - 7 hours, j^atituuc and ionditude of ia’agala was
not known to Oil Company employees whom I met but all of them said
it was as nearly as possible exactly west of JlfiialL. It is ? kilo
metres j^ast of the track from *:iyaah to Koweit, and /forth of the
Dahana sands. The name indicates an area of water holes. It is
in this case a wide depression full of T - u bushes and a marked
feature. There is a 1 rge and deep DidhtL - (used aa a retreat
from the heat by the oil engineers in summer;) They hare two
water bores and one experimental oil bore. The water is said to
be the finest in Arabia and it is extrersefy good. Oil has not yet
been struck.
The camp is surrounded by fencing and ooxisists of half a
dozen tents and portable huts sufficient to accomodate the four
engineers. Cutaid© are straw matting temporary huta of 12 ,wrab
guards.
ISa’agala to al HITT^A - 200 kl lone tree - 4 hours,
koad ia clearly marked having been started by Oil Oompany. Ithough
none of x^y party had been by it, and were reluctant to go by it at
night for the fir at time, we arrived safely and with no difficulty.
For first two hours road is not very good having to cross rocky
ridges. It pusses North of THaJ and *outh of 3. vRRAJi, both Ox
which can be seen frora the track - a few houses and palms and
some fcuina (presumed to be lUmyaritic). The springs of kIDAlNIYA
are astride the road.
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The file contains the following:
- a note (ff 2-5) from June 1930 assesses the geographical characteristics of 'three Wahabi ports': Ojair [Al-ʻUqayr], Qatif [Al-Qaṭīf] and Jubail and assesses the feasibility of establishing and maintaining a blockade;
- a letter from Alan Charles Trott, British Legation Jedda, to Viscount Halifax, Foreign Secretary, with an enclosure of a letter from Captain de Gaury describing the track from Riyadh to Dhahran (ff 7-9);
- correspondence between Edward Birbeck Wakefield, 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. Bahrain, and C.E. Davis, Resident Manager, California Arabian Standard Oil Company, Dhahran, concerning the recruitment to organise the transport system of Saudi Arabia (ff 12-15).
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- 1 file (19 folios)
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The papers are arranged chronologically from the front to the back of the file. There are file notes ff 17-18.
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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover, and terminates at the inside back cover; 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 present in parallel between ff 2-16; these numbers are also written in pencil, and can be found in the same position as the main sequence, but they are not circled.
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- '15/2 NOTE ON WAHABI PORTS - SAUDI ARABIA - SAUDI TRANSPORT.'
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- front, front-i, 2r:13v, 15r:18v, back-i, back
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