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Coll 6/10 'Hejaz-Nejd Affairs: Financial Situation and Internal Situation' [‎500v] (1007/1310)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (649 folios). It was created in 21 Jun 1928-26 Aug 1938. 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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a lure Their inherent aversion to bolshevism, their interested stand against
Soviet trade, and M. Turakulov’s persistent efforts to obtain further concessions
have probably been the main factors of delay.
5 i n Jedda a humbler method obtains for raising the wind. The
merchants having now been relieved, on loan, of nearly all f| iei r cash, are required
to lend their stock-in-trade to the local tieasury official, tie thereupon knocks it
down at auction for what it will fetch, spot cash. I. am assured that this means
was resorted to in order to pay for the official dinner with which the Finance
Minister was greeted on his recent return from Medina. Little wonder that the
local tradesmen feel sore, so sore that even the venerable Governor of Jedda,
himself a merchant who has been heavily dunned for loans, hailed the Indian vice-
consul in full market the other day and asked him how he could evade further
extortion. As the Governor is very deaf, the Munshi A term used in the Middle East, Persia and South Asia to refer to a secretary, assistant or amanuensis. Munshis were employed in the British administration in the Gulf. was much embarrassed for
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6 . With regard to expenditure, I hear through a credible channel that Ibn
r Baud is no whit less extravagant than before, and that observers at Riadh are
shocked at his lavish hunting parties. His Minister in London, on the other
hand has recently been telegraphing for funds. The arrangement with Messrs.
Gellatly Hankey and Co. for the supply of credit to cover the needs of missions
abroad (Sir A. Ryan’s despatch No. 291 of the 16th July) was not concluded after
all but I learn confidentially from the manager of the local Dutch bank that the
Finance Minister succeeded during the last week of August in collecting
£300, which the bank remitted to Sheikh Hafiz Wahba. Fortunately the season
is over.
I have, &c.
C. G. HOPE-GILL.

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This volume largely consists of copies of Foreign Office correspondence, which have been forwarded by the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under-Secretary of State for India. The correspondence, most of which is between Foreign Office officials and either the British Minister at Jedda (Sir Andrew Ryan, succeeded by Sir Reader William Bullard) or His Majesty's Chargé d’Affaires at Jedda (Cecil Gervase Hope Gill, succeeded by Albert Spencer Calvert), relates to financial and political matters in the Kingdom of the Hejaz and Nejd (later Saudi Arabia).

The correspondence discusses the following:

  • The history of the Wahabi movement and Ibn Saud's [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd's] attitude towards Wahabism.
  • The currency exchange crisis in the Hejaz.
  • Requests from Ibn Saud for the British Government either to assist in establishing a British bank as a state bank in the Hejaz, or to provide a loan directly to the Hejazi Government (both requests are declined).
  • The British Minister at Jedda's accounts of his meetings both with Ibn Saud and with various Hejazi/Saudi Government officials.
  • A Hejazi-Soviet contract for the supply of Soviet benzine and relations between Soviet Russia and Hejaz-Nejd generally.
  • Tensions within the Hejazi Government.
  • The Hejazi Government's budgetary reforms.
  • The prospect of a new Saudi state bank, possibly backed by the financial assistance of the former ex-Khedive of Egypt [ʿAbbās Ḥilmī II].
  • The death of Emir Abdullah ibn Jiluwi [‘Abdullāh bin Jilūwī Āl Sa‘ūd].
  • Saudi-Egyptian relations.
  • The discovery of oil in Hasa.

In addition to correspondence the volume includes the following:

The volume includes three dividers, which give a list of correspondence references contained in the volume by year. These are placed at the back of the correspondence.

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1 volume (649 folios)
Arrangement

The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 651; 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. A previous foliation sequence, which is present between ff 563-649 and is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.

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