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Coll 6/30 'Revolt in Northern Hejaz: Hejaz-Nejd – Transjordan Frontier Situation. Hejaz Relations with Egypt and Transjordan.' [‎430r] (870/946)

The record is made up of 1 volume (469 folios). It was created in 26 May 1932-21 Jul 1932. 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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6. I am of opinion that
Shaker and Hamid Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. el
tne story about the Amir
V1 d-i- ( v ide paragraph 4 above)
is wionout foundation because these two men are much
too sensible to engage in such a hair brained scheme
and because Shaker was told by Mr, Kirkbride some ten
days ago that no attack on I bn S.aoud emanating from Trans
jordan could be allowed,
7, On the strength of the above I decided that
the movement might best be ended if I told the Amir the
substance of what is set out in paragraph 3 aboveif I
pointed out that a rumour which ?;as current here that
the Amir was mixed up in the movement must very quickly
come to the ear of Ibn Saoud, and if I advised him that
the wisest thing for him to do would be to immediately
issue orders that suspicious characters were at once
to be removed from the frontier.
8. This I did on the morning of the 26th instant.
The Amir denied all connection with the affair, said that
if Ibn Rafadah arrived he would kick him out and said he
would issue orders to his Government and Lieutenant
Colonel Peake as proposed. Immediately after I had left
.^im he sent his Secretary to enquire what form his order
should take.
I suggested the following which he adopted after
inserting the words shewn in brackets:-
n It has come to my ears (from the British
Resident) that a number of tribesmen, without their
children and women, have passed through Southern Trans
jordan and are assembled south of Aqaba under the leadership
of Hamid Ibn Rafadah. It is said that these people expect
heir from me for some evil purpose in the Hejaz. I order
you to cause these people to return to their fa mi lbs in
Sinai, Palestine or Trans-Jordan and to prevent the passage
through Trans-Jordan of any persons whose movements
give cause for suspicion that their intentions are not

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This volume concerns the British Government's response to the presence of anti-Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] rebels in northern part of the Hejaz during May-July 1932, reportedly led by Sheikh Hamid Ibn Rafadah [Shaikh Hamid Ibn Rifadah].

The volume mostly consists of copies of Foreign Office and Colonial Office correspondence (a large amount of which has been forwarded by the Committee of Imperial Defence's Standing Official Sub-Committee for Questions Concerning the Middle East) discussing the following:

The volume features the following principal correspondents: the High Commissioner for Egypt (Sir Percy Loraine); the High Commissioner for Transjordan Used in three contexts: the geographical region to the east of the River Jordan (literally ‘across the River Jordan’); a British protectorate (1921-46); an independent political entity (1946-49) now known as Jordan (Arthur Grenfell Wauchope); the High Commissioner for Iraq (Francis Henry Humphrys); the British Resident, Transjordan Used in three contexts: the geographical region to the east of the River Jordan (literally ‘across the River Jordan’); a British protectorate (1921-46); an independent political entity (1946-49) now known as Jordan (Charles Henry Fortnom Cox); His Majesty's Minister at Jedda (Sir Andrew Ryan); His Majesty's Chargé d’Affaires to Jedda (Cecil Gervase Hope Gill); the Secretary of State for the Colonies (Philip Cunliffe-Lister); the Senior Officer of the Red Sea Sloops; officials of the Foreign Office and Colonial Office.

In addition to correspondence the volume contains a copy of the minutes of a meeting of the Committee of Imperial Defence's Standing Official Sub-Committee for Questions Concerning the Middle East, dated 9 June 1932.

The volume includes two 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 (469 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 465; 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, nor does it include the four leading and ending flyleaves.

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Coll 6/30 'Revolt in Northern Hejaz: Hejaz-Nejd – Transjordan Frontier Situation. Hejaz Relations with Egypt and Transjordan.' [‎430r] (870/946), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/PS/12/2096, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100060337338.0x000047> [accessed 29 March 2024]

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