Coll 6/52 'Saudi Arabia: Anti-Saudi activities of Sayed Mohamed Tahir al Dabbagh' [127r] (253/321)
The record is made up of 1 file (159 folios). It was created in 30 Jun 1932-6 Jul 1936. 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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in ay despatch f?o* 999 of JNovember 5th last, has been placed
on the Egyptian u Red List” end is prohibited from access to
Egyptian territory. The document was submitted to King Fuad
by Lmir daid til Gesairi who is visiting Lgypt from Damascus.
The Hejasi National Tact attached to the petition to His
Majesty is presumably that referred to in paragraph 19 of Sir
A* Hyan's Secret memorandum (£ 4737/76/25) of aept^nber last.
It will be observed that this Tact is dated January 1928.
3. I enclose also copies of a letter from the Fubllo
Security Intelligence Department, Khartoum, from which it will
be seen that 3ayed Ali ^1 Mirghani has received a similar
request for sympathy and support.
4. iiimir 3aid dl Gesairl is being requested by the
Egyptian Government to leave Lgypt as a result of his inter
vention in this affair.
5. It is perhaps not irrelevant to record in this con
text that a certain Sayed kohammed Taher Masoud Al-Babbagh,
bearing a British passport issued in Cairo in July 1926,
arrived at Hues from Maasawa on December 12th. He was able
to convince the passport authorities that he was not identical
with, but was the brother of the individual referred to in
paragraph 2 above; and he was therefore allowed to proceed to
Cairo for a weei^s visit to Sayed Abdul Lalek-Al-Khatib, before
continuing his journey to Jerusalem. He was instructed by the
Director-General of the European Department, on arrival In
Cairo, to abstain from any subversive activity while in £gypt
on pain of instant expulsion. He left for Jerusalem on
December 13th after one day's stay in Cairo.
6. I enclose a letter from Hr. Consul-General Eabino,
giving details of this man’s application for a British passport
auuii—ui
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This file contains correspondence discussing the reported activities of Sayed Mohamed Tahir al Dabbagh [Sayyid Muḥammad Ṭāhir al-Dabbagh, former Hashimite finance minister in the Hejaz] and other persons referred to as 'anti-Saudi consipirators'. It documents their movements in political exile and their eventual return to Saudi Arabia, following the Saudi Government's granting of a general amnesty to political émigrés in January 1935.
Much of the file's correspondence, which largely consists of copies of letters received by the Foreign Office and the Colonial Office, is concerned with the movements of Mohamed Tahir al Dabbagh and another Saudi political exile, Muhammad Abdulla Ahmed Sadiq [Muḥammad ʿAbdullāh Ahmed Sadiq], during 1933-1934. It reports on the pair's visit to (and subsequent expulsion from) India, and discusses whether the Government of India has powers to prevent the two men from entering foreign countries such as Iraq or Eritrea.
Other notable anti-Saudi figures discussed in the correspondence include Abdul Raouf Sabban [‘Abd al-Ra‘uf al-Sabban], Abdul Hamid al Khatib [‘Abd al-Ḥamīd al-Khaṭīb, former envoy of Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī], and Mohamed Tahir al Dabbagh's brother, Husain [Ḥusayn Ṭāhir al-Dabbagh].
The file features the following principal correspondents: His Majesty's Chargé d’Affaires to Jedda (Albert Spencer Calvert); His Majesty's Minister at Jedda (Sir Andrew Ryan); 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. , and later, Chief Commissioner, Aden (Bernard Rawdon Reilly); the Secretary of State for the Colonies (Philip Cunliffe-Lister); the High Commissioner, Cairo (Percy Loraine, succeeded by Miles Wedderburn Lampson); Sayed Mohamed Tahir al Dabbagh; the Saudi Minister for Foreign Affairs [Fayṣal bin ‘Abd al-‘Azīz Āl Sa‘ūd]; officials of the Foreign Office, the Colonial Office, 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. , and the Government of India's Foreign and Political Department.
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 (folio 2).
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- 1 file (159 folios)
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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 foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 160; 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. Two additional foliation sequences are also present in parallel between ff 2-159, and ff 123-149; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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- front, front-i, 2r:54v, 59r:72v, 74r:79v, 81r:88v, 90r:128v, 135r:145v, 148r:160v, back
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