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'File XXV/3 Arabian Politics (including Iraq). Arab Revolt in the Hejaz against the Turks, 1916' [205r] (409/490)
The record is made up of 1 file (243 folios). It was created in 24 Jun 1916-17 Jun 1926. 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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(3) The settlement of frontier and other disputes
between Nejd and the Hejaz. Since that Conference
terminated many events have occurred which have considerably
modified the situation in Arabia. A briedT record of xta
these events will be found in the Appendix to the report of
the Committee of Imperial Defence, of which a copy is
enclosed herewith. Chief 'among these events was the
outbreak of hostilities between the Sultan of Nejd and the
King of the Hejaz. Hostilities are still proceeding,
and although the final issue cannot be foreseen the present
position is that the forces of Ibn Saud are in effective
occupation of the greater part of the Hejaz, including the
Holy City of Mecca, and are investing the town of Jeddah,
upon which and the immediately surrounding country King Ali
maintains a precarious hold. The lioithern districts of
the Hejaz, bordering upon Trans-Jordan, are not at present
in the effective occupation of either of the combatants.
As you are aware, Kis Majesty’s Government have publicly
announced their strict neutrality in this conflict.
3. Although the situation in Arabia has been very
considerably modified during the last two years, the three
principal questions with which the Kuwait Conference was
concerned remains^ unsettled today, and it is with the
primary object of disposing of the first two of these
questions that the negotiations, in which you are to xj®
represent His Majesty’s Government, have been initiated.
As regards the first question, that of the delimitation of
the frontier between Trans-Jordan and Hejd, I am to enclose,
for your information, a copy of the instructions communicatee
to Lieutenant Colonel Khox prior to the assembly of the
Kuwait Conference. You will see that at that time His
Majesty’s Government were prepared to accept as a minimum an
eastern frontier which would roughly follow a line drawn frou
the intersection of meridian 39° with parallel 32° to the
intersection
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This file contains correspondence and reports related to the British Government's response to the announcement of the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire in 1916 (folios 2-14) and to political-military developments in the Hejaz between 1924 and 1926, notably the conquest of Jeddah and the fall of the Hashemite Kingdom of the Hejaz (folios 15-244).
The majority of the correspondence in the file is between British officials, but it also contains a limited amount of correspondence between European diplomatic staff in Jeddah and the Ruler of Nejd, Ibn Saud (‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd).
Much of the section of the file that concerns the Hejaz consists of detailed situation reports that were sent to British diplomatic posts (including the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. in Muscat by Britain's Agent and Consul in Jeddah, Reader William Bullard (followed by Stanley R Jordan between December 1924 and February 1926).
In addition, the file contains the following documents:
- 'Notes regarding Policy to be adopted in connection with the revolt of the Sherif of Mecca' (folios 10-11)
- 'Aims of the Indian Caliphate Committee as given to the Foreign Secretary to the Hejaz Government by the Delegation, in writing about January 13th 1925' (folios 57-58)
- 'Minutes of a Conference held at the Colonial Office on the 12th of March, 1926, to discuss matters arising out of Sir Gilbert Clayton's report on his Mission to Ibn Saud' (folios 233-235).
- Extent and format
- 1 file (243 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 245; 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. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 2-12; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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- IOR/R/15/6/32
- Title
- 'File XXV/3 Arabian Politics (including Iraq). Arab Revolt in the Hejaz against the Turks, 1916'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:51v, 54r:55v, 59r:141v, 144r:170v, 173r:177v, 182r:192v, 197r:218v, 220r:244r, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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