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File 2182/1913 Pt 5 'Arabia Nejd: Policy Bin Saud' [261r] (97/308)
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Mulrattura had reported that the Arabs from Medina to Damascus
were hacking the Sherif,but you said you had not yet received
official news to that effect.
With regard to the news of the Sherif at al Medina,
the latest reached me on the 15th Shawal = 15th August.It was
to the effect that about 7000 Infantry and Cavalry had arrived
at Medina and that immediately on arrival they had cone into
conflict with the sons of the Sherif and that a skirmish had
taken place at long range at a place about 4 hours to the
south of Medina. After that the Turks had hccone superior to
the sons of the Sherif in numbers and strength and consequent
ly the latter had had to fall back to a place called Rabigh,on
the coast of the Red Sea,between Mecca and Medina.
With regard to the fighting among the tribesmen of
the Hejaz,whose country and habitat extends from Medina to
Jeddah and Yemboo,they have become separated into two division?
the Beni Salim and Faddah are siding with the Turks butthe
Masruh are with the sons of the Sherif.
On their return after the skirmish that took nlace
between them and the sons of the Sherif,the Turks attacked
Awali (a town near Medina which has considerable date gardens
belonging to a tribe called the Beni All who had been siding
with the sons of the Sherif in revolt against the Turks) ond
bombarded the town,plundered it,outraged the people and
perpetrated iiupi iniquities upon them.
A Sherif has now been created at Constantinople who
is named Hydar. They claim that he is a new Amir for Mecca.
There arrived with him a deputation and some troops and on
their arrival at Medina they committed barbarious acts
against the townspeople,imprisoning and hanging them. No one
who possesses zeal for Islam and Arab patriotism can tolerate
such things. This is the latest news received from Medina.
At this noraent while writing,! have received news
that
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Part 5 concerns Britain's relations with Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd], and, to a lesser extent, Britain's relations with the Grand Sherif [Sharif] of Mecca [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī]. It includes the following:
- a copy of a treaty between the British government and Bin Saud, dated 26 December 1915, plus a copy of the ratified treaty, dated 18 July 1918;
- reports of an agreement between Bin Saud and Bin Rashid [Saʿūd bin ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Āl Rashīd];
- details of munitions that are to be given by the British to Bin Saud;
- translated copies of correspondence between the High Commissioner, Cairo, and the Grand Sherif of Mecca;
- discussion as to whether the British should press Bin Saud to take specific action to assist both the British and the recently deposed Grand Sherif of Mecca;
- details of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Percy Zachariah Cox's meetings with Bin Saud.
The principal correspondents are the following:
- Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Percy Zachariah Cox (as both 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 Chief Political Officer, Indian Expeditionary Force D);
- Bin Saud;
- Viceroy of India [Charles Hardinge, succeeded by Frederic John Napier Thesiger];
- Secretary of State for India [Joseph Austen Chamberlain];
- High Commissioner, Cairo (Sir Arthur Henry McMahon);
- Grand Sherif of Mecca [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī];
- Foreign Office;
- 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 (Arthur Hirtzel).
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- File 2182/1913 Pt 5 'Arabia Nejd: Policy Bin Saud'
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- 213r:331v, 333r:362v
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