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Coll 6/56 'Saudi-Arabia: Prevention of use of Bahrein and Kuwait as bases for activities against Nejd (Ibn Hithlain)' [‎29r] (59/64)

The record is made up of 1 file (30 folios). It was created in 10 Jul 1933-31 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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i This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty’s Government, and should be
returned to the Foreign Office if not required for official use.]
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Decypher, Sir Ryan (Jeclda)
10th July, 1933 e
10th July, 1933,
11th July, 1933 ft
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Ro 10 o 45 acirii
Addressed, to &rrt-4C. No, 144, repeated to Porei.gn
Office NOo 134, Bagdad No, 145,
Saudi Government have communicated to me privately
information received hy them from various sources that
Khalid Ibn Hithlain is proposing to enter Nejd from Kuwait
presumably with evil intentions and with encouragement of
others" and that he and his party
at Koweit and Bahrain, They ask that preventive measures
may be taken 0
Somewhat similar warning proceeded Rifada affair end
mention of "others'’ may be an attempt to implicate King of
Iraq. I should like to answer what is possible to dispel
the idea that if Khalid is in fact up to mischief he can
make use of Koweit or Bahrain©

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This file relates to an Ajman chief named Khalid ibn Hithlain [Khālid bin Muḥammad bin Ḥithlayn, also transliterated as Khalid bin Hathlain in the file], who is suspected of planning anti-Saudi activities. The correspondence documents the efforts of the British authorities – at the Saudi Government's request – to monitor Khalid ibn Hithlain's movements and prevent him from using either Kuwait or Bahrain as a base from which to plan hostile actions. The file concludes with extracts from the Kuwait Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. 's intelligence summaries, which report Khalid ibn Hithlain's return to Saudi Arabia in January 1935, following a general political amnesty granted by the Saudi Government.

Notable correspondents include the following: His Majesty's Chargé d’Affaires to Jedda (Albert Spencer Calvert); His Majesty's Minister at Jedda (Sir Andrew Ryan); the Secretary of State for the Colonies (Philip Cunliffe-Lister); the Saudi Minister for Foreign Affairs [Fayṣal bin ‘Abd al-‘Azīz Āl Sa‘ūd]; the Saudi Ministry of 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 (30 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 first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 30; these numbers are printed and written in pencil, 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.

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Coll 6/56 'Saudi-Arabia: Prevention of use of Bahrein and Kuwait as bases for activities against Nejd (Ibn Hithlain)' [‎29r] (59/64), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/PS/12/2123, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100055623086.0x00003d> [accessed 29 March 2024]

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