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File 2182/1913 Pt 7 'Arabia: Policy toward Ibn Saud' [118r] (237/420)
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REPORT ON MISSION TO JEDDAH.'
15. 1. 18.
TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE HIGH COMMISSIONER,
CAIRO.
In accordance with your instructions I ieft Cairo
on 2nd January and Suez on 3rd by H.M.S. ’’SUVA" and
arrived on 6 th at Jeddah. I learned there that King
Hussein intended to leave Mecca on the following day and
to receive me on the 8 th. Mr. H. St. J. B, Philoy, I.L.S.
who had gpne to RIADH as part of our "NEJD MISSION" to
I BN SAUD and had come thence in 17 days to TAIF and 4
days more to JEDDAH, had been waiting there since January
1st. He reported that after his departure from TAIF with
15 of his men, KING HUSSEIN had summoned the rest of his
men and camels to MECCA, and he suspected the latter of
an intention to forbid his return to TAIF. This suspicion
agreed with an indication already noted in a telegram
from the King to his Cairo Agent, and I communicated it
at once to you. I spent the 6 th and 7th in hearing Mr.
PHILBY’3 report of his Mission and journey and in dis
cussing the situation between the King and IBN SAUD.
The King arrived at JEDDAH in the evening of the 7tL
and received me, with Mr. PHILBY and Colonel BASSETT,
on the morning of the 8 th. Between that date and the 14th
when I left in H.M.S. "HABDINGE", I had in all. ten
interviews with His Highness including his formal call
on the British
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
on the 11th and his visit 1,0
H.M.S. "HARDINGE" on the 14th. Of the conversations during
these interviews, I have made the notes appended mo this
report, and Colonel Bassett also made notes which he has
communicated/
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Part 7 primarily concerns relations between Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] and King Hussein of Hedjaz [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī, King of Hejaz].
It includes discussion as to whether Britain should provide Bin Saud with military assistance to enable him to take decisive action against Bin Rashid (also referred to as Ibn Rashid) [Saʿūd bin ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Āl Rashīd, Emir of Ha'il]. The policy advocated by the Government of India is that Bin Saud should be 'kept in play' by gifts of money but that arms and military instructors should be supplied sparingly. Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Percy Zachariah Cox and Harry St John Bridger Philby, on the other hand, favour an offensive against Hail [Ha'il] by Bin Saud, with British assistance. Also included are the following:
- a memorandum from the War Cabinet's Middle East Committee, on the position of Bin Rashid in relation to other Arab rulers;
- a note entitled 'Relations With Ibn Sa'ud', prepared by the Arab Bureau's Irak [Iraq] section, which provides a British perspective on Britain's relations with Bin Saud from 1899 onwards;
- notes on conversations held between Colonel Cyril Edward Wilson and Major Kinahan Cornwallis of the Arab Bureau, and Emir Abdulla [ʿAbdullāh bin al-Ḥusayn], son of King Hussein, during December 1917;
- a copy of a report by David George Hogarth on his interviews with King Hussein at Jeddah;
- a memorandum from 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 Kuwait, Colonel Robert Edward Archibald Hamilton, which is primarily concerned with relations between Kuwait and Riyadh;
- notes by Hamilton on Bin Saud, based on conversations with the latter at Riyadh in November 1917;
- correspondence between British officials regarding King Hussein's attempt to reoccupy Khurma and its impact on his relations with Bin Saud.
This item features the following principal correspondents:
- Viceroy of India [Frederic John Napier Thesiger];
- 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);
- High Commissioner, Egypt (General Sir Francis Reginald Wingate);
- War Office;
- Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Percy Zachariah Cox;
- Secretary of State for India [Edwin Samuel Montagu];
- Foreign Office;
- King Hussein;
- Bin Saud.
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