'File 1/A/38 V Saudi Arabian Frontier Negotiations' [59r] (122/510)
The record is made up of 1 volume (250 folios). It was created in 30 Dec 1937-18 Apr 1942. 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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P.Z.1211/38.
CONFIDENTIAL
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.
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Whitehall,
London, S.W.l.
3rd March, 1938.
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Copies are "being sent to you and to the Government
of 5 India oy this mail of telegrams which passed in January
between tne Foreign Office and His Majesty's Minister at
Jedda (Jedda relegrams 26, 31 and 36, and Foreign Office
telegrams 16 and 17) about the South-Eastern boundaries
of Saudi Arabia. None of these telegrams was repeated to
you at the time, presumably because they followed on
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Foreign Office telegram No.6 of the 11th January (referred
to in Jedda telegram No.26) which was not an official
telegram. A copy of this telegram is enclosed herewith
for your information together with a copy of demi-official
correspondence with the Foreign Office on the question of
■WTi" t?
0 Foreign Office dated 31st January; j the making of overtures to
n . . . TI . _J’_ . F^ebruary, )
Petroleum Concessions Limited
regarding the exploitation of the Jebel Nakhsh area.
I am sending a copy of this letter and its
enclosures to Metcalfe.
Yours sincerely.
* Hon’ble Lieut.-Col.
Sir Trenchard Fowle, HUE
H.B. M*Consul-General,
a Bushire.
/ j3.l
(Sgd.) J. P, GIBSOf i
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The volume concerns negotiations between the British and Saudi Arabian governments over the question of how to settle the eastern frontier of Saudi Arabia.
The principal correspondents are: HM Minister, Jedda (principally Sir Reader William Bullard); the 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. (principally Lieutenant-Colonel Trenchard Craven William Fowle); officials of 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. , the Government of India, and the Foreign Office; and the Saudi Arabian Minister for Foreign Affairs (Amir Faisal [Fayṣal bin ‘Abd al-‘Azīz Āl Sa‘ūd]).
The papers cover: the attitude of Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] to the frontier question; the boundary with Qatar; the boundary with Abu Dhabi; the British maintenance of the Blue Line as the frontier; the activities of the California Arabian Standard Oil Company (CASOC) in the area, including allegations of encroachment by the company to the east of the Blue Line (folios 104-105); the status of Khor al Odeid and Jabal Naksh, and their possible cession to Saudi Arabia; the effect on negotiations of British policy in Palestine; and the activities of Petroleum Concessions Limited, including the need to guard against encroachment upon the southern boundary of the company's concession (folio 229).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (250 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in chronological order from the front to the back of the file, except where enclosures of an earlier date are filed after their relevant covering letter, and terminate in a set of notes (folios 237-249).
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 252; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in 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 also present in parallel between ff 10-252; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- 'File 1/A/38 V Saudi Arabian Frontier Negotiations'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:138v, 138ar:138av, 139r:211v, 214r:214v, 216r:220v, 222r:224v, 226r:226v, 228r:231v, 233r:251v, back-i
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