File 2182/1913 Pt 9 'Arabia Policy towards Bin Saud' [35v] (68/406)
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latter nor has Colonel Wilson as far as I know submitted any eorrohoratiVo
documents regarding the alleged events nor (1 group undecypberable) as to
further activities of the part of the Ikhwan.
I propose, subject to approval of His Majesty’s Government to despatch
Cantain N E Bray now Political Officer at Bahrein to Riyadh shortly for
Captain 1 . y conveyance to Ibn Sand of a message in
* Serial No. 65. terms stated in your telegram,* December
13th, should the situation on his arrival seem to justify it. Captain Bray was
formerly on special duty in Hedjaz and is known to the authorities in Egypt.
But before sending him I should he glad to have somewhat more recent
and if possible more reliable information than e# paHe allegations by King
Hussein the veracity of whose previous reports as to Ibn Sand is not such as
to inspire confidence.
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Telegram P., No. 1961, dated tBe 28th (received 29th) December 1918..
Prom—His Majesty's High Commissioner, Egypt, Cairo,
»p 0 Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign and Political Depart
ment, Delhi.
(Addressed Foreign Office ; sent to Baghdad.)
It is reported by King of Hedjaz that he has suggested to Bin Bashid
that latter might, in case he has difficulties in obtaining them from Irac[,
purchase supplies from Yenbo (Red Sea).
This refers to your telegram No. 1613.
77
Telegram P., dated the 6th (received 7th) January 1919.
From—His Majesty's High Commissioner, Egypt, Cairo,
To—His Excellency the Viceroy (Foreign and Political Department), Delhi.
A conversation at Jeddah with the head of the deputation sent by Bin
Rashid subsequently to Mecca, Mohammed-el-Negheirbi-el-Fatayah, is reported
by Colonel Wilson. Man is intelligent and well acquainted with recent Arab
politics and was for four years in College at Beyrout. He impressed Colonel
Wilson as reliable although he is evidently a keen partisan of Ibn Rashid.
There have been regular communications from Bin Saud to Medina
according to him. Last September Ibn Rashid was informed by Fakhri that
he (Fakhri) had an agreement with Bin Saud and was advised to make
common cause with latter against Sheriffials. Through Ibn Saud it was that
Fakhri heard of the secret negotiations between the Kin% and Ibn Rashid.
He believes that, in collusion with Fakhri, Bin Saud desires to enter Medina
and to possibly induce some of the Turkish troops to enter his service after
taking possession of armament there. Reports as to the militancy of Wahabi
movement which can only be checked by force and of its rapid progress are
confirmed by him. Ikhwan have been joined by nearly all Ateibah and
Muteir tribesmen and Bin Saud has declared, it is said, that until he has
repeated his grandfather’s exploits at Mecca he will not rest.
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Part 9 primarily concerns the dispute between Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] and King Hussein of Hejaz [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī, King of Hejaz], and British policy towards both. The item includes the following:
- a note by 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, entitled 'Arabia: The Nejd-Hejaz Feud', which laments the fact that relations between Bin Saud and King Hussein have to some extent been reflected in the views of the two administrations with which they have respectively been brought into contact (i.e. the sphere of Mesopotamia and the Government of India in Bin Saud's case, and the Cairo administration in King Hussein's case);
- reports on the presence of Akhwan [Ikhwan] forces in Khurma and debate as to which ruler has the stronger claim to it;
- attempts by the British to ascertain whether or not a treaty exists between King Hussein and Bin Saud;
- a copy of a report by Harry St John Bridger Philby entitled 'Report on Najd Mission 1917-1918', which includes as appendices a précis of British relations with Bin Saud and a copy of the 1915 treaty between Bin Saud and the British government;
- reports of alleged correspondence between Bin Saud and Fakhri Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , Commander of the Turkish [Ottoman] forces at Medina;
- reports of the surrender of Medina by Ottoman forces;
- discussion as to whether Britain should intervene further in the dispute between Bin Saud and King Hussein;
- details of the proposals discussed at an inter-departmental conference on Middle Eastern affairs, which was held at Cairo in February 1919;
- reports that King Hussein's son Abdulla [ʿAbdullāh bin al-Ḥusayn] and his forces have been attacked at Tarabah [Turabah] by Akhwan forces and driven out.
The principal correspondents are the following:
- 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. , temporarily based in Baghdad [Lieutenant-Colonel Arnold Talbot Wilson, acting Resident in Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Percy Zachariah Cox's absence];
- Civil Commissioner, Baghdad [held in an officiating capacity by Lieutenant-Colonel Arnold Talbot Wilson];
- High Commissioner, Egypt (General Sir Francis Reginald Wingate, succeeded by General Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby);
- Milne Cheetham, Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. , Cairo;
- 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 (John Evelyn Shuckburgh);
- Bin Saud;
- King Hussein;
- Feisal [Fayṣal bin Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī], son of King Hussein;
- Foreign Office;
- Secretary of State for India [Edwin Samuel Montagu];
- Harry St John Bridger Philby.
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