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File 2182/1913 Pt 11 'Arabia: relations with BIN SAUD Hedjaz-Nejd Dispute' [‎347r] (248/678)

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The record is made up of 1 item (336 folios). It was created in 16 Oct 1919-28 May 1920. It was written in English and Arabic. 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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al-Bahama to pay respects to Amir. Yusuf Kanoo had slig
fever, he la staying v/ith Mahomed Effendi Chief Treasury
Officer® Latter has been most good, looking after my interests
and comforts he is always in attendance and cannot do enough®
If he is not present one Abdullah Effendi an ex Turkish
official of Kurdish origin does the needful® The latter is
married to Mahomed Effendi’s daughter®
Abdullah Effendi is very polished, speaks good French,
has distinctly French mannerisms. Might easily be Frenchman
in disguise. Says he was in Medical Branch Turkish army before
war® Studied i$ Paris, afterwards came Basrah where he left
Military and became Civil surgeon infectious hospital® Says
he toured Nejd with Philby and Colonel Cunliffe~Owen, also met
Colonel Hamilton at Qasim. Rather a suspicious looking
individual but pleasing of speach.
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At 3 P.M® took walk round city with Qusaibi. At 5 P.M.
called on Amir, where came across several Akhwan. These
refuse to return salaams and cover their faces as you enter
with their hands in most disconcerting manner, they of course
refuse also to rise® Awkward situation for Amir - As one sat
down .Akhwan rudely got up and left room muttering audible
curses. I was told these particular individuals (who all wore
white turbans) were the Shaikh of the Qahtan Faisal ibn Hashar
by name, Abd Mana Shaikh of the Shamir section of the Ajman.
I am trying to find out all about these gentry and will report
results in separate note® The Akhwan leader is Abdul Kerim
al Mughrabi and resides at ARTAWIYEH« The Qadhi of Riadh one
Abd el Latif is also a strong member of the Akhwan® Cold very
great here slight frost last night. Trying after Bahrain.
At 3.30 P.M. was visited by Wazir Minister. or Private Secretary of the
Imam one Mahomed ibn Saleh ibn Shalhoot he is reported to be a
native of Riadh but I suspect him of being a man of Mosul®
Tall very voluble, polite and in hard condition. Wears full
Badouin costume. He was sent ahead to inform me that the Imam
Bin Saud was expected the following day® He said very heavy
rains were encountered on the way from Riadh® Everywhere in

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Part 11 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] over Khurma and Tarabah [Turabah]. Much of the correspondence documents the efforts of the British to persuade the two leaders to agree to meet. It is initially proposed that the two should meet at Jeddah; however, it is reported by the Civil Commissioner, Baghdad, that Bin Saud refuses to meet King Hussein at Jeddah, Aden, or Cairo, and suggests a meeting at Baghdad instead. A number of other possibilities are discussed, including the following: the Secretary of State for India's proposal of a meeting of plenipotentiaries, either at Khurma or Tarabah, as an alternative to a meeting between the two leaders themselves; a suggestion by the High Commissioner, Egypt, that the two leaders meet in London; a proposal from Lord Curzon [George Nathaniel Curzon], Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, that Bin Saud should be induced to meet King Hussein on board a British ship at Jeddah, or, as is later suggested, at Aden.

Also included are the following:

  • an account from Captain Norman Napier Evelyn Bray, political officer in charge of the Nejd Mission, which recounts the last days of the mission's stay in Paris, in late December 1919;
  • a report from the High Commissioner, Egypt, on his recent meeting with King Hussein, which relays the latter's views on the allocation of control of Syria to France;
  • discussion regarding the growing power and influence of Bin Saud's Akhwan [Ikhwan] forces;
  • a note on the dispute by Harry St John Bridger, in which he volunteers to induce Bin Saud to agree to a meeting at any place (outside of Hejaz) suggested by His Majesty's Government;
  • memoranda and diary entries written by 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. at Bahrain, Major Harold Richard Patrick Dickson, all of which discuss at length Dickson's interviews with Bin Saud at Hasa [Al Hasa] in January and February 1920;
  • extracts from a report by the British Agent, Jeddah, Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Edwin Vickery, which recounts his recent interviews with King Hussein and the King's son, Emir Abdullah [ʿAbdullāh bin Ḥusayn al-Hāshimī].

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