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File 2182/1913 Pt 5 'Arabia Nejd: Policy Bin Saud' [275r] (125/308)
The record is made up of 1 item (154 folios). It was created in 26 Dec 1915-12 Dec 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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Ih the name o€ Gro4“»4he Merciful
From Abdul Aziz ibu Abdur Rahman al Faisal
To j£he Chief Political Officer
dated the 15th of August, 1916.
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After Compliments /, If! V
I despatched a letter to four Honour recently; Inshallah
you duly received it and it found you in the best of health.
It is some little time since I received any letter from Your
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Honour communicating to me the good news of your victories
over the evil doers. I am always waiting for your good news
in that connection.
After writing my peevious letter to you, I -received
from the Gherif of Mecca letters conveying the good nows of
his occupation of Mecca with the assistance of your guns.
He asked me to render him assistance and to unite myself with
him. I have written back saying that as regards assistance I
will not fail to render it to the utmost of my power. As to
union with him I have remarked that I have no designs on has
country, i.e. the Hedjaz and its surroundings : whereas, on
the other hand, he, in the past, has been in the habit of
interfering with my tribes and my territory’, allrging that
this has been done at the instance of the Turks and that it
was tbejr who wore prompting him to do so. I contended that if
he meant to be sincere and desired to be united with me and
that we should work hand in hand, he should give me an under
taking and a solemn promise for the immunity of my territories
and my subjects, and for abstention from trespassing in our
limits, or from interference with our subjects. If his reply
is in the affirmative and he acts loyally, no effort on my
part will, please God, be spared to help him to the best of
my ability.
2 My motive in replying as above is not due to any
desire on my part to ally myself with him, for you are aware
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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'
- Pages
- 213r:331v, 333r:362v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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