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File 2182/1913 Pt 11 'Arabia: relations with BIN SAUD Hedjaz-Nejd Dispute' [‎537r] (631/678)

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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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Ox lice ol the Civil Commissioner,
Baghdad, the 1st Beeember 1919,
= 8th Babi-ul-Awall, 1338.
Bear Sir,
I have the honour to acknowledge your letter of 23rd
November.
I enclose my reply to His Excellency Abdul Aziz ibn Abdul
Rahman al Raisal al Saud for despatch to him. I also send a
copy thereof for your perusal.
I regret that circumstances do not permit of a more
favourable answer : under the circumstances there was no need to
trouble you to visit Baghdad in person although it always gives
me pleasure to meet you.
Your sincere friend,
Sd.A.T.Wilson, Lieut-Col.,I.A.,
Acting Civil Commissioner in Mesopotamia.
To:-
Abdul Latif Mandil,
Basrah.
To:-
Office of the Civil Commissioner,
Baghdad, the 1st December 1919,
* 8th Rabi-ul-Awall,1338.
Abdul Aziz ibn Abdul Rahman al Faisal al Saud
Ruler of Najd 8c Dependencies,
I have the honour to acknowledge your letter of 4th Safar.
I was glad to learn of your welfare and to hear from you.
Since you wrote your above mentioned letter you will have
received my letter of 17th November(24txi Safar) explaining, that
present
so far from being able to consider an increase of your/saysuuii:
subsidy, the exigencies of the time make it necessary ,o .
in notes instead of in silver rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. *
To this letter I have at present nothing to add, except
to assure your 3xo.ll.noy that the financial stringency to which
you allude in your letter is common to all countries and probably
affects your neighbours much mor§ acutely than yourself ana tnat
to a greater or less extent it affects the whole world.

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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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