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File 10/12 Desert news: defeat of Ikhwan by Ibn Sa`ud (Battle of Sibilla, 1929); operations against rebels [86r] (178/382)
The record is made up of 1 file (187 folios). It was created in 31 Mar 1929-5 Aug 1929. It was written in English and Arabic. 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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Telegram (P).
From Political, Kuwait*
To Resident, Bushire; repeated to Hi^hcoma,
copy by post to P.A., Bahrain.
No. 98 .
Baghdad; Ss
Dated 26th February I 929 *
Fes senders sent by the Shaiich of Ku* at to Ibn Sa’ud left
Riyadh on their way back on 1?th February and have arrived
back with a letter from him. In it Ibn Sa’ud informs the
ShaiKh that he is ta&in& the field in person and is leaving
for Q&sim on «pth February with all his forces, but he does
not say what his objective is.
Be had not disclosed this point in Riyadh either, but had
talked openly about the Desert Posts, Kin& Faisal's intrigues,
etc., as if to £>ive the idea that he was goin^ to attack
’Iraq. There was little doubt however tha$ his real intention
was to try and bring Ibn Huaaid into subjection.
Ibn Huraaid was then in camp between Zilfi and Buraldah and
had eleven standards with him. It was thought that his inten
tion was to raid Salmon by way of Lfnah, and that Firm, who
was then at AjioDah, wad to go with him.
According to what they heard from Ion Sa’ud's servants Ibn
Jiluwi had been ordered to march on Lisafah vSafahK
Dawlsh was at Artawlyah when they left, but a report has Just
been received here from another source that he moved out to
Umm al-JamaJim on the 21st February.
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This file contains correspondence related to the British Government's relationship with Ibn Sa'ud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] and related political developments.
Specifically, the correspondence in the file relates to tribal movements and disturbances in and around the Iraq-Kuwait border, the closure of the road between Kuwait and Zubair and the killing of an American missionary named Henry Bilkert.
The majority of the correspondence in the file is internal correspondence between British officials but letters exchanged between the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. in Kuwait, Major James Carmichael More, and the Ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah (in Arabic with English translations), also appear throughout the file.
In addition to correspondence, the file also contains a report on the situation in the Southern Desert of Iraq and Ibn Sa'ud's territory of Najd that was written by the Special Service Officer in Basra (folios 37-41).
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- 1 file (187 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 187; 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. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 5-186; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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- File 10/12 Desert news: defeat of Ikhwan by Ibn Sa`ud (Battle of Sibilla, 1929); operations against rebels
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 1r:5v, 6v:19v, 20v:48v, 49v, 50v:81v, 84r:109v, 110v:118v, 119v:121v, 125r:136v, 137v:146v, 149r:158v, 159v:161v, 164r:179v, 180v:186v, 187v, back-i
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