File 2182/1913 Pt 8 'Arabia – Policy towards Bin Saud' [301r] (186/602)
The record is made up of 1 item (300 folios). It was created in 7 Aug 1918-26 Dec 1918. 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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and carry out orders of your "oVermont, and this we
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Government, »e request you that you may sanction whet i
cannot do without and I will be bound by your orders; or, if
you have no final instructions that you racy refer our said
proposals lor eonroval, foiling which wg mipht be treated as
a friend (free of ouli"; tions), that we right settle our
aft Eire with the Arabs thorrsolves.
The proposals raised by us and whi&i we
^ .tji .,, The Egyptian "'overnnent
should acirit that the Charif has nothing to do with all our
territories, both the town nr on and the norads. Both our
bo unda ries ano his should bo defined, that no one of us
ould encroach on the boundaries of the other?., fhi?
! • b *qv e.rmmi should guarantee by a very firm wm recor* r
ni uion, so that no on^ oi us should have an excuse on the
obu r, an? that both peace and rest on which our mutual
interests depend nirht be eeiabliohod aiony ourselves.
AL-tJ3oiran and the„„;liamar:
These sections of the Vgran and 3ha?igrar, which are
within ohe territories of Government and are ran teed by
h&r, anl which he does not want to be encroached uponj should
be absolutely prohibited from wanderinr inside our territorii
either with their families or with their raidinr parties,
and should not be su r lied with such lar-s amounts of
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foodstuff 8 as -ill one bis them to help I bn GaaSiid and others,
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but should rather be "iven their Tsonthly consumption only, 4 -
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taenth by rK>nth. As a precautionary against abuse.
tlie distribution of the supplies n-on- them should be
race with our cooperation and that of the 'overament. But
the other sections of the 'Ajran and the oharmar, which do si
not enjoy the trust and the confidence both of us and of
Government should be expelled from all territory occupied
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Part 8 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]. Included are the following:
- discussion as to which ruler has the stronger claim to Khurma, and whether Bin Saud should be encouraged to begin hostilities against Bin Rashid [Saʿūd bin ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Āl Rashīd, Emir of Ha'il], as a way of diverting the former's attention from other matters;
- copies of a treaty between the British government and Bin Saud, which was signed on 26 December 1915 and ratified on 18 July 1916;
- debate about whether the British should supply Bin Saud with more arms and ammunition (to make amends for providing him with 1000 cheap Winchester rifles);
- discussion of the possible benefits of arranging a meeting either between King Hussein and Bin Saud or between the former's son and the latter's brother;
- discussion about the possibility of an officer from the Egyptian service succeeding Harry St John Bridger Philby as the British representative to Bin Saud;
- reports of Bin Saud having begun operations against Bin Rashid, and discussion as to how the British should respond;
- speculation on King Hussein's actions in Khurma and the implications for Britain's policy in the region;
- a copy of a memorandum from the Foreign Office's Political Intelligence Department, entitled 'Memorandum on British Commitments to Bin Saud';
- reports of an Ikhwan force advancing towards Mecca, and discussion as to how the British should respond.
This item features the following principal correspondents:
- High Commissioner, Egypt (General Sir Francis Reginald Wingate);
- 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);
- Captain Arnold Talbot Wilson [based in Baghdad and acting both as Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , and as Civil Commissioner, following Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Percy Zachariah Cox's transfer to Persia];
- War Office;
- Foreign Office;
- Viceroy of India [Frederic John Napier Thesiger];
- Secretary of State for India [Edwin Samuel Montagu];
- General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Mesopotamia [William Raine Marshall];
- Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , Baghdad;
- 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. , Koweit [Kuwait] (Percy Gordon Loch);
- Harry St John Bridger Philby;
- Bin Saud.
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- Title
- File 2182/1913 Pt 8 'Arabia – Policy towards Bin Saud'
- Pages
- 212r:222v, 274v:277v, 297r:309v
- Author
- Āl Sa‘ūd, ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal (xx Ibn Saud)
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