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Coll 6/19 'Arabia: (Saudi Arabia) Hejaz-Nejd Annual Report.' [26v] (53/540)
The record is made up of 1 file (268 folios). It was created in 18 Apr 1931-18 May 1945. 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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93. Early in May His Majesty’s Minister received instructions to inform
Ibn Saud that the Imam had made troop movements which appeared to be aimed
at Shabwa and al ’Abr, and that, as his replies to a telegram on the subject from
the Government of Aden had been equivocal, the Imam, to whom a conciliatory
reply was being sent in reply to a complaint which he had made about Shabwa, ^
was being warned that, in the event of a Yemeni advance into the Aden
Protectorate, retaliatory action would be taken by the Royal Air Force. This
information was given to Ibn Saud in accordance with the arrangement for the
exchange of information about the Yemen which had been agreed upon during
Mr. Renders visit to Jedda in 1937, but His Majesty’s Government also had in
mind article 3 of the Saudi-Iraqi-Yemeni Treaty providing for joint endeavours
by the signatories to find a situation by peaceful means and friendly negotiations
should a situation arise involving a threat of war between one of them and
another State.
94. A long and involved telegram was received from Ibn Saud in reply to
this communication. He said that the Imam had doubtless been instigated by the
Italians, whose attitude would, however, presumably change now that the
agreement with His Majesty’s Government had been signed, and that the people
of Shabwa wanted neither the Imam nor the British, but to be free. He did not
seem to think that the Imam was receiving encouragement from people on the
Aden side of the frontier. He added that His Majesty’s Government might be
well advised to employ experienced persons to explain their intentions to the
population, e.g., that they have no designs on the country, and to give the
population a share of its resources. Sir R. Bullard concluded that this last point
was a reference to the oil which is supposed to exist near Shabwa. He noticed
that Ibn Saud showed no sign of readiness to intervene in the dispute. A later
telegram from the King confirmed this reading of his view : it expressed anodyne
hopes of peace, and confidence in the wisdom and experience of His Majesty’s
Government. Towards the end of May the Government of Aden, who had learned
that the Imam had sent Ibn Saud a long telegram in cypher and supposed that
the subject might be the Anglo-Yemeni dispute, suggested than an attempt should
be made at Jedda to find out whether that supposition was correct and if the
Imam was consulting the Saudi Government, that it should be urged upon them
to advise the Imam not to send troops to Shabwa and other points in dispute
and not to quarrel with His Majesty’s Government about them. Sir R Bullard
waited a few days, thinking that if Ibn Saud had been consulted by the Imam,
he might inform His Majesty’s Government spontaneously and that 'it would not
be well to show too great eagerness, but having received from the Foreign Office
a request for his comments on the Aden proposal, he sent Ibn Saud a message
referring to the latter’s replies on the subject and saying that he would be grateful
tor any additional comments that His Majesty might be able to make Ibn Saud
replied that the Imam never consulted him on “ internal ” questions : he probablv
would have done, but Ibn Saud had always ridden him off lest the Imam should
suspect him of having personal aims. The affairs of the Yemen, he said were
involved and unintelligible : no sensible man would interfere, and he did not want
to do so. This reply ruled out any such request as the Aden Government had had
m mind.
. l 9 Y^<? leSSag , e sent by Mr - Philb y> th en at Riyadh, to the EqypHan Gazette
on the 25th September, contained these passages :—^
r " Ref ^g ees wh° arrived recently at Najran have reported to the Wahabi
Goyetnoi there that Shabwa was occupied without opposition about a
fortnight ago by a small detachment of Yemeni troops The occupa-
lon of Shabwa appears to have been a very peaceful affair as the party
favounng mcorporatmn m Saudi Arabia withdrew from the district to avoid
trouble. Ibn Saud has steadily declined to give the Saudi partv anv
encouragement in order to avoid complications with the British Government
^ Wnf ° P r f ? nS1 T t0 the sovere ignty of Shabwa, although no secGon
of the local population has ever recognised the British claim.”
96. When His Majesty’s Minister was at Riyadh in November he received
from the Foreign Office a copy of a communication which His Mafestv’s
Ambassador in Rome was to make to the Italian Government regaS the
Shabwa situation. It stated that Yemeni troops had occupied sfabwa by a
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This file contains copies of annual reports regarding the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd (later Saudi Arabia) during the years 1930-1938 and 1943-1944.
The reports were produced by the British Minister at Jedda (Sir Andrew Ryan, succeeded by Sir Reader William Bullard) and sent to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (and in the case of these copies, forwarded by the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under-Secretary of State for India), with the exception of the reports for 1943 and 1944, which appear to have been produced and sent by His Majesty's Chargé d’Affaires at Jedda, Stanley R Jordan.
The reports covering 1930-1938 discuss the following subjects: foreign relations; internal affairs; financial, economic and commercial affairs; military organisation; aviation; legislation; press; education; the pilgrimage; slavery and the slave trade; naval matters. The reports for 1943 and 1944 are rather less substantial. The 1943 report discusses Arab affairs, Saudi relations with foreign powers, finance, supplies, and the pilgrimage, whilst the 1944 report covers these subjects in addition to the following: the activities of the United States in Saudi Arabia, the Middle East Supply Centre, and the Saudi royal family.
The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 269; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located at the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 2-12 and ff 45-268; these numbers are also written in pencil but are not circled.
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