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File 2182/1913 Pt 5 'Arabia Nejd: Policy Bin Saud' [279r] (133/308)
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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Translation of a Ini tor fro® Al:»d ? : >1—Asslas Iho Abd
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Fr^tahrmn &l*4?&tm&l to : Us ;ononr Hir Porcy f ! os #
Majostr f s Consul Motional in tt.*e Porsi*-n Tulf *
In tlio hobo of '^od t!to HorcifiJl#
After
Vour .Mriond bad tlio honour to roeoire your
letter a.nd una©r stood the ran too to*
deferring specifically to i^?at you wrote?
(i) As regards our fi^itirg with the Al~3Jt*rratt tribe
and your re.-rret that Ite Kaahlct was able to keen his position
safe at hall * I wmiM inform 5 our lionmir, in that conroctlor f
that our fiifitlpg with the al^-urroh was an nr pent matter,
althmi^b P no doiiht# it was ssy into rests that were primarily
inrolvod yet those to nonet extent are connected with the
interests of iireat hritatn al^o#
Yon doubtless arc? ntmre that the Al-’hirrah are allies
of the Titrlrs c«rrl that tlw 'furlw hav# an alliance with Tbn
httslild and his tribes* It was the intention of t!?e Al- urrsh
to pressed towards hnwait in to co-operate with the Turlrs
and Urn liashid* and had they done so there would certainly hare
hron soma untoward res It either in Tract or in my direction#
Their intentions however became evident before the event by
reason of their many activities in the direction of Ptmm and
Katif and. their plundering and marau liugi and I was oorfnollrd
to deal with the® as m enemy firstly, because they bed
s^iressed on my subjects and secondly, beemise it wits necessary
to prevent their joining their allies r;enficmed above* T
appealed to od for assistance and by die help they are now
annihilated and are no longer of any importsmee*
And as to Ibu Bashid bei?ig able to maintain h±n position
BOSuro at .hail, there in m ' I MWI neraen who gave you
this information was an enemy# fie ras probably one of the
following
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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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