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File 2182/1913 Pt 4 'Persian Gulf: Policy towards Bin Saud (Capt. Shakespear's Mission)' [‎168r] (337/426)

The record is made up of 1 item (211 folios). It was created in 22 Sep 1914-17 Jan 1916. 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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Ls1j‘t62 irQiL oiL9,ikli olr Mubpraic "to Bin Sa.ub d8,"tG(i 14"tli
October 1914.
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After cornpliments,
May God keep you in safety. I send you herewith in
letter No. I the purport of a communication which 1 have
received from Colonel Cox the former Agent at Bushire who is
now Foreign Secretary of the Glorious Government at Simla with
the reins of affairs in his hand, and he is the man whom you
and I ooth know to be our friend. You should read these words
carefully and consider their meaning well. According to what
I hear this war is entirely the fault of the Germans, and they
are inciting the Turks: May God abase them both: otherwise
my son they (Germans) will give the Turks entire control
over you and .me and over all the Arabs, and you know the
enmity of the Turks towards the Arabs. And God has f&hewn
favour to the Arabs and Islam generally by bringing the Glo
rious English Government into existence, it is they who
protect their Muslims in India and also our Arab Muslims of
whom are you and your followers and I and mine. You see that
all the Arabs are in God’s care then in that of the Glorious
Government, we have experienced how they keep (harm) away
from us. And you and I whom, please God, oTl the Ara,os wilo.
follow must keep to our friendship with the Glorious Govern
ment, if we do not help them we must at least refrain from
interference and not listen to the ^seductions of the Germans.
By following the wishes of the Glorious Government we shall
find our own happiness, and we have to be grateful to them
my son, since our help is not necessary to them as theirs
is to us. Our comfort and welfare is from God then from
them end may God never cause the others to reign over us who
will injure us, namely the Turks and the Germans wno ore

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Part 4 primarily concerns British policy towards Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd], following the outbreak of the First World War. It includes the following:

  • discussion regarding Bin Saud's relations with the Ottoman government, and the need for the British to secure Bin Saud's goodwill, especially in the event of the Ottoman government entering the war on the German side;
  • details of Captain William Henry Irvine Shakespear's mission (as a political officer on special duty) to meet with Bin Saud, with the aim of ensuring that, in the event of hostilities between Britain and the Ottomans, no assistance is offered to the latter by Bin Saud;
  • translated copies of letters from Shaikh Mubarak [Shaikh Mubarak bin Ṣabāḥ Āl Ṣabāḥ], Ruler of Kuwait, to Bin Saud, urging the latter to side with the British Government;
  • details of a proposed preliminary treaty between the British and Bin Saud;
  • reports of Captain Shakespear's death;
  • reports on Bin Saud's military engagements against Bin Rashid [Saʿūd bin ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Āl Rashīd];
  • a copy of a draft of a preliminary treaty between the British government and Bin Saud;
  • details of proposed gifts from the British to Bin Saud of arms and ammunition captured from the Ottomans, plus a £20,000 loan.

The principal correspondents are the following:

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File 2182/1913 Pt 4 'Persian Gulf: Policy towards Bin Saud (Capt. Shakespear's Mission)' [‎168r] (337/426), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/PS/10/387/1, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100034341124.0x000093> [accessed 29 March 2024]

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