File 2182/1913 Pt 5 'Arabia Nejd: Policy Bin Saud' [347r] (269/308)
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in the Foreign end Political Department, Delhi*
Uo*1170-B., dated the 16th freed. 17th) March 1916.
Munitions for Bin Staid. Please see my 1946^B. and
telegraphic correspondence.
He a.sked for S,000rifles and the Government proposal was
that he should he given 1,000. On 22nd January Army Commander
who only had about 500 available here expressed ability to give
him 2 mountain guns and 500 rifles, and Bin Baud was then asked
to have party sent here to be trained in gunnery. Meanwhile
Hawam arr/ived and the Z guns and 400 rifles reserved for Bin
Baud v/ere given to Kav/am owing to urgency of his case.
Two more guns can probably be made serviceable* Meanwhile
Bin Baud asks urgently for an instalment of rifles. Hawam has
now left Lingah. Rifles sent with Sykes will in any case have
to go on by instalments as Hawam is able to arrange for
transport.
I would propose that 1,000 of these rifles and 200,000
rounds be deflected and sent to Bahrein for Bin Baud, to be
repliced later if necessity nhx should arise. Has this
your concurrence ?
jived "ob 539 APfWIO^ i
INDIA F0EE1GH SECRETARY'S
Letter. »<>• 26 M
Rated 31 MAR 1916
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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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