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'File XXV/7 Arabian Politics (including Iraq). Bin Saud, Akhwan, the Hejaz, 1920-1928' [40r] (90/494)
The record is made up of 1 volume (239 folios). It was created in 16 Jul 1919-1 Mar 1928. 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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For the defence of the Railway the King should depend more upon the
subsidies to the Bedouins than upon armed force. He has the following tribes
to placate south of Maan
H uweitat
Beni Atiyeh .
Billi and Moliab
Juheinah
Harb
70 miles of line.
IbO do.
150 do.
70 do.
50 do.
Bor this purpose he will have to make small monthly pay mentis to the
Sheikhs of the above tribes in the same way as did the Turks, who it is under
stood spent about £T.500 per mensem on this service.
The King’s fears of aggression by Ibn Baud will not be allayed until the
dispute over Khurma has been arbitrated on by us. Indeed, until the bounda
ries of the Hejaz have been definitely fixed and our treaties with the various
Arab rulers concluded, King Husein will have an ample supply of pretexts at
hand for keeing up a larger regular army than he can afford.
The King should, I think, be reminded of the revised Arab Policy of
His Majesty’s Government and, at the first opportunity, should be advised that
our help, financial and otherwise, is contingent on his confining his activities to
the Hejaz and on his abstention from all propaganda in the Arab territories
outside his sphere. He should be made to understand that our funds aie not
given him for political intrigues and conspiracies outside the Hejaz or for
arming for anything but defence.
T nm further of oninion that, once the subsidy to Peisal has ceased, we should
a which King Husein must now lay out considerable sums of money
(1) Improvements in the Quarantine stations at Jeddah, Yenbo and one
on the Railway.
(2) Repairs to Railway and renewal of rolling stock.
(8) Water supplies at the large towns.
(4) A road from Jeddah to Mecca.
The present local sources of income to the Hejaz Govern
out as follows :—
(1) Quarantine dues.
(2) Railway receipts.
(3) Postal receipts (and probably cable).
(4) Customs receipts.
(5) Wakfs.
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- Content
This volume contains correspondence and several documents concerning a number of topics related to the Arabian Peninsula as follows:
- 'Note on the Khurma Dispute by Captain Garland with Sketch Map (with Appendix Dated 10th June 1919)' (folios 5-10)
- 'Notes on the "AKHWAN" Movement' by Harold Richard Patrick Dickson, 1920 (folios 18-32)
- 'Note by Miss G.L. [Gertrude Lowthian] Bell', 1920 (folios 34-37)
- 'Hejaz Post-War Finance' written by the Foreign Office's Arab Bureau, 1919 (folios 39-41)
- 'Note on the political situation in Bahrein as existing at the end of 1919, with suggestions and proposals for improving the situation' (folios 97-101)
- 'Note on history of Zubara and Claims of Shaikh of Bahrein to Zubara' (folio 108)
- A map of Qatar and Bahrain (folio 110)
- 'Memorandum on the British Position on the Arabian Littoral of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . 1921' (folios 141-149)
- 'Diary of Journey from Bahrein to Mecca' written by Khan Sahib Saiyid Siddiq Hassan, 1920 (folios 160-173)
- 'Report of Shaikh Farhan Beg Al Rahmah of the Muntafik, Personal Assistant to Major H.R.P. Dickson, C.I.E., 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. , Bahrein, who accompanied the Nejd mission from Bahrein to Mecca via Riyadh and back' (folios 173-178)
- 'Note on the tracts and tribes of South Hasa, Trucial Oman A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. , "Independent Oman" and Dhahirah (Oman Sultanate), located between the coast of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and Ruba' al Khali (the Great Salt Desert)' (folios 197-199)
- Government of India printed correspondence on Ikhwan raids into Iraq and Kuwait, 1927-28 (folios 208-238).
The majority of the correspondence in the volume is internal correspondence between British officials in Iraq, India and the Gulf, but it also contains a limited amount of translations of letters that were sent to British officials by Ibn Saud (‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd).
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- 1 volume (239 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 239; 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 leading and ending flyleaves. A previous foliation sequence between ff 203-238, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- 'File XXV/7 Arabian Politics (including Iraq). Bin Saud, Akhwan, the Hejaz, 1920-1928'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 1r:62v, 67r:109v, 111r:114v, 120v:200v, 202r:216r, 218r:219v, 221r:223v, 225v:239v, iii-r:iv-v, back-i
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