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Coll 5/23 ‘Alleged violation of the Saudi Arabian frontier by British aircraft’ [78r] (155/555)
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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COPY.
(E 966/966/25)
British Legation,
Jedda.
29th January, 1935.
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No. 24.
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Sir,
I have the honour to forward herewith translations of
two notes from the Saudi Minister for Foreign Affairs putting
£.0.181 torward claims to a total amount of on© hundred and eighty one
Rs.20.3i ^ld pounds, twenty riyals and three and a quarter piastres in
respect of expenditure incurred in searching for British
aircraft last year. The two cases would appear to he those
which formed the subject of correspondence on which the most
relevant papers are my printed despatch No. Ill of April 18th
1 34, enclosing a copy of a note to the Saudi Government and
Kr. Calvert 1 s printed despatch No. 310 of October 10th enclosing
a copy of another not© of the same kind.
2. I find it difficult to express an opinion on this
entirely novel action on the part of the Saudi Government
as I do not know what the general international practise
is in such matters, if Governments ordinarily pay for
assistance rendered by the authorities of other Governments,
it would be difi icult to resist the claims In principle and
invidious to question the details, although I can hardly think
that the actual expenditure was as heavy as it is renresented
to have been.
3. There can be little doubt that the Saudi Government
have been impelled to make the claim by the insistence of His
Majesty’s Government on their own pecuniary claims, the latest
of
The Right Honourable,
Sir John Simon. G.C.S.I., K.C.V.O.,
etc., etc,, etc.
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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)
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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 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
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- 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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