'File 5/C Boundary questions: attacks on Ikhwan; dispute between Shaikh Salim and Ibn Sa`ud' [‎96r] (191/230)

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a the p^er, *
i that he too was naoot anxloua to return to the old tftate
of frlendahlp, nerely ursine; hie to order restitution to he aade
for the Jariyah affair, ^ritiiout naJtlns ^-ny reference to a frontier
het^reen then*
fron hie letter, wao that he thought that, ao ire had repudiated tlie
and tliat hio heat ;x>lioy ^aa to try and patch up the quarrel with
Ito Ja’ud over the reotiti:tion question, preferring to leave the
frontier undecided than to have it decided against hlsu
&(% ud will now he acre 'ursious to cone to tons and ; lore lihoiy to
ortler taie return of the "haloT’, because of the reported defeat of
hia forces ly Ihn Rashid at Ohd^hah in the ;ii^Ue of June, ahioh,
t^eUie^ %me or not is believed here* This hope suqr tare been
stresigtlim^ hy a vague rumour of anot^x^* recent defeat near
Buraid h, iSxiali I entirely discredit*
'Iho Olr JJdi has issued an order, find had it proolained ty
"dallal , that no one in Kumit is to aention t2xe nane of Ibn aa f ud
at all* Uia object is said to be ttat he wlalxea to avoid all chance
of n Jours roa^xhing Iba ears that people here are spacing
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took place* but* of course, do not teiov w!iat advice they gave, or
to What av.tmt, 1? any, Shaikh SoUa InfluwwM ^ ^ a^io,.
Tim .ThaUsfc has not aanUonoa the aubjeot to rae ninoe the
The la.iresolon vvSiioh J calnaCL fron thio Interview, aa
I think there ia little doubt tiiat he hopes that Ibn
Ahn.id bin .T; bir, neltlier of rtwra had been Inside his house for
Ian; tine, and that the fomer oimOj aoouaed hln of always t.,v,.-t n c
ths adrloe of hla oarvanta and never oonaultins tiie otiier nadbera
of tiie A1 'ubah. I understand that a s«neral faaily PeoonoiUation