File 2182/1913 Pt 12 'ARABIA: RELATIONS WITH BIN SAUD (AMIR OF NEJD) (HEJAZ-NEJD BOUNDARY DISPUTE)' [130r] (260/448)
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Decypher. Lord AlLenLy (Raraleh) July 14th, 1920.
D. 8.15 p.m. July 14th, 1920.
R. 11.15 a.m. July 15th, 1920.
No. 710.
Very Urgent.
Your telegram No. 643 ani my telegram No. 682.
Althoi^h* Hussein*s attitude may be partly
attributed to disinclination to take our advice, be is
undoubtedly frightened both of Nejdis and of his own
Bedouins over whom he has little control. In view of
bitter feeling between the two parties I think he has
every reason to be nervous.
Chances of peaceful pilgrimage depend to a consider
able degree on his ability to buy off tribes and he canno
do this unless he receives his subsidy. He has just
telegraphed to me that his financial situation is most
serious and asked for immediate advance of £30,000.
I consider subsidy should be granted but that it
should be made conditional on his undertaking to fulfil
guarantees demanded in your telegram No. 410 and to allow
pilgrims to buy foodstuffs for return journey.
I understand there is a precedent for pilgrims from
Nejd leaving their arms at Taif during pilgrimage and I
think that this suggestion might be made to Bin Baud.
It would lessen chances of trouble at Arafat*
Native Arab opinion appears unanimous in thinking
Bin Baud and King will not compose their differences
unless
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Part 12 concerns British policy regarding the dispute between Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd, also referred to in the correspondence as Ibn Saud] and King Hussein of Hejaz [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī, King of Hejaz]. Much of the correspondence relates to (unsuccessful) efforts by the British to arrange a meeting between the two rulers. The correspondence discusses conditions and arrangements for a proposed meeting at Mecca (as suggested by Bin Saud), immediately after pilgrimage [Hajj].
The correspondence goes on to discuss details of an armistice agreement made between King Hussein's committee and the Nejd deputation, at Mecca. A translation of the agreement states that the two parties agree to end all hostile movements and resume negotiations as soon as possible through the British government.
Also included are the following:
- details of a proposed gift of £5000 from the British government to Bin Saud (plus an honorary GCIE – Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire);
- proposals of a payment of £30,000 by the British government to King Hussein, on the condition that the King signs a treaty with Turkey [the Treaty of Sèvres, which began the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire];
- a copy (in Arabic) of the aforementioned Treaty;
- news of reports that King Hussein's son, Sherif Feisal [Fayṣal bin Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī, also referred to in the correspondence as Amir Feisal], has been crowned King of Syria, and copies of translations of correspondence between Feisal and Bin Saud.
The item includes the following principal correspondents:
- Secretary to the 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. 's Political Department (John Evelyn Shuckburgh);
- Civil Commissioner, Baghdad [held in an officiating capacity by Lieutenant-Colonel Arnold Talbot Wilson];
- High Commissioner, Egypt (General Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby);
- 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 (Major Harold Richard Patrick Dickson);
- Foreign Office;
- War Office;
- Treasury;
- Bin Saud.
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