File 2182/1913 Pt 9 'Arabia Policy towards Bin Saud' [174r] (345/406)
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Secretary of State.
Your Excellency:-
I have received a telegram from my father, No.10 R from
Cairo dated January 2nd. He asks you to take action regarding
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Khurraa.
This is a village in the S.E. Hejaz, with a population
of about 300 or 400 fighting men of the Beni Thor section of
Sbei tribe, -and negro freedmen. They have recently been
perverted to the Ikhsen sect, one of whose tenets is that its
believers can pay political alTfgiance only to Ibn Saud, Emir
C r )
of Aridhaud Kasim. Ibn Saud is using Khurma as a base for
propaganda against the rest of the Hejaz. My father cannot
regard the question as a purely religious one, since each new
Wahabi is a political subject of Ibn Saud, and is armed by him,
and considered by him as one of his standing army. If their
movement westward is not checked, they may take Taif and Mecca
in six months.
My father has exhausted the Hejaz in the effort to help
the Allies against Turkey. Ibn Saud is fresh, and is being
paid and armed by your representative in Bagdad.
I intend to come to my father*s help with men and machines
from my northern army as soon as possible. Meanwhile it would
have a good effect (but will not stop the Wahabi movement) if
you will insist that Ibn Saud withdrawn Sultan Bijad from
Khurma. If you threaten his subsidy he will agree to this,
and so give me time to move my forces to Mecca. I have no
objection then to your continuing to arm Ibn Saud, since I
will be much stronger than him.
(Feisal)
7.1.19.
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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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- Fayṣal I xx al-Hāshimī, Fayṣal bin Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī
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