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Coll 5/23 ‘Alleged violation of the Saudi Arabian frontier by British aircraft’ [76r] (151/555)
The record is made up of 1 file (276 folios). It was created in 4 May 1930-29 Oct 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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No. E 966/966/25.
and address—
In any further communication
on this subject please quote
not to any person by name
Foreign Office. ha c
but to—
“ The Under-Secretary of State,”
Foreign Office,
London, S.W.l.
t '955 J
S.W.l.
15th March, 1935.
Sir,
With reference to the correspondence ending with
Foreign Office letter No. E 6608/6282/25 of the 8th Noyemher
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.
, I am directed hy Secretary Sir John Simon
to transmit to you, to be laid "before Secretary Sir Samuel
Hoare, the accompanying copy of a despatch from His Majesty’s
Minister at Jedda regarding a claim put forward hy the Saudi
Government in respect of assistance in searching for the four
aeroplanes "belonging to the Bombay Flying Club, which made
a forced landing in the Iraqi desert in October last. The
total amount of this claim is 176 gold pounds, 12 Riyals and
4i- piastres.
2. Unless sir Samuel Hoare wishes to contest this claim,
Sir John. Simon will "be glad if he may be authorised to pay the
amount in question on behalf of the Government of India, who
will no doubt wish in turn to reclaim it from the aviators on
whose behalf assistance was rendered. Repayment would be
claimed by the Foreign Office from 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.
on the
quarterly general claim. In view, however, of the
recommendation made by Sir Andrew Ryan in paragraph 3 of his
despatch, Sir John Simon would propose subject to the
concurrence of Sir Samuel Hoare, to postpone the actual payment
of the claim until such time as the Saudi Government have
settled the debt owing to His Majesty’s Government in the
United Kingdom in respect of telegrams despatched on their
behalf
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The file contains correspondence relating to incidents involving British aircraft in, or in the vicinity of, Saudi Arabia – Hejaz and Nejd prior to 1932; the incidents predominantly take the form of forced landings by aircraft of either the Royal Air Force (RAF) or of Imperial Airways. The correspondence generally includes reports on the incident, and covers measures taken to render assistance, the submission of apologies to the Government of Saudi Arabia, and occasionally the issue of rewards for assistance given. It also includes the details of an expenses claim made by the Government of Saudi Arabia in January 1935 for assistance rendered in the search for three lost Indian pilots of the Bombay Flying Club in October 1934: see folios 70-86. It further includes some discussion relating to regulating private flights over Iraq in response to this incident, the results being the issue of new regulations which can be found on folios 47-48.
The main correspondents are as follows: HM Minister at Jedda (Sir Andrew Ryan, later Sir Reader William Bullard), HM Chargé d'Affaires at Jedda, HM Ambassador to Iraq (Sir Francis Humphrys), officials of the Air Ministry, and officials of the Foreign Office. There is also correspondence with officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Saudi Arabia. Most of the correspondence in the file does not directly involve 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. ; correspondence in the file has frequently been forwarded to the Under-Secretary of State for India by the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
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.
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- 1 file (276 folios)
- Arrangement
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 for this description commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 277; 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.
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- IOR/L/PS/12/1969
- Title
- Coll 5/23 ‘Alleged violation of the Saudi Arabian frontier by British aircraft’
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- front, front-i, 2r:13v, 15r:43v, 45r:46v, 49r:52v, 54r:79v, 87r:101v, 103r:107v, 110r:162v, 164r:187v, 189r:194v, 197r:214v, 216r:222v, 224r:225v, 227r:269v, 271r:277v, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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