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File 4929/1918 ‘Arabia: relations with Bin Rashid’ [‎67r] (138/471)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (229 folios). It was created in 6 Nov 1918-30 Sep 1920. 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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(P 930) h'vom Civil Commissioner, Bayhdad, 29th Januari/ 1920.
{Repeated to Commodore, Constantinople, copy by post to India and General Officer
Commanding in Chief, who has seen, before issue.)
(Received 4th February, 2 p.m.)
(U.) 1301. Rair-az-Zor.
Ramadan Shallash has left for Aleppo. He has been succeeded by Maulud
Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , who, so far from adopting different attitude, is also actively inciting tribes
throughout Mesopotamia to active revolt and rebellion. 11 is letters have reached tribes
as far as Amara.
There is no indication that these letters are having any particular effect, but
Shammar, between the Tigris and the Euphrates, north of Baghdad, need little
encouragement to start campaign of pillage.
Maulud Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. appears to be well supplied with funds, and according to all
reports is both offering and paying considerable sums to tribal leaders, whom he
believes to be capable of causing disturbances in our territory.
Like Ramadan Shallash, he has been threatening lives of Political Officers by
letter, and a small party from Dair-az-Zor recently waylaid Political Officer on his
way from Albu-Kamal to Ramadi. Attempt was luckily unsuccessful.
The Anaizah, under Fahad Beg Bin Hadhdhal, and the Dulaim, under Ali
Suleiman, are in the vicinity of Albu-Kamal and are anxious to re occupy Dair-az-Zor
on our behalf. They are prepared to do so without any military or financial
assistance from us.
My present instructions to the Political Officers concerned are that both these
tribes should be restrained from taking more than a passive part, as we do not wish
to appear to be imitating the Arab Government by inciting tribes to rise. It is,
however, a game at which two can play, if necessary.
Tribes in neighbourhood of Mayadin and Salahinoh have given us to understand
that they are willing and indeed anxious to assist us, but their confidence has been
greatly weakened by recent events at Dair-az-Zor, and until we are in a position to
guarantee them immunity from vengeance of the Arab Government subsequent to
further sudden change of frontiers, they do not propose to do more than sit on the
fence.
All available local evidence indicates that representatives of the Arab Govern
ment are locally pursuing an active hostile line and that substantial portion of their
subsidy is being devoted to encouragement of anarchy in Mesopotamia, and to incite
ment of tribes both within and beyond our frontier to attack our troops and to
murder our officers.
Apart, however, from the Dair-az-Zor incident, these efforts, which have been
actively maintained since the armistice, cannot be considered to have had hitherto
any marked effect on the general political situation in Mesopotamia.

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The volume contains papers mostly concerning relations between HM Government and Bin Rashid [Sa`ud (II) ibn Abdul Aziz al Rashid], Emir of Hail [Jabal Shammar], in the Nejd region of Arabia.

It includes correspondence regarding: the desire of Bin Rashid for friendly relations with HM Government, and for help and protection from the British Government; HM Government’s decision to open relations and negotiations with Bin Rashid; the suggestion of the High Commissioner for Egypt that he should act as a medium in negotiations between HM Government, the King of Hedjaz (King Hussein), Bin Saud [Ibn Saud] and Bin Rashid; the proposed British mission to Bin Rashid; and the murder of Bin Rashid by Abdullah Bin Tallah.

The correspondence largely consists of copy correspondence between the Foreign Office and the following: the High Commissioner for Egypt (Sir Francis Reginald Wingate, followed by Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby); the Civil Commissioner, Baghdad; the High Commissioner, Constantinople (A Calthorpe); and the Counsellor of the Embassy, Cairo (Milne Cheetham).

The volume also includes: correspondence between the 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. and the Foreign Office; copy correspondence between Bin Rashid and the Acting Civil Commissioner in Mesopotamia (Arnold Talbot Wilson); and 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. Political Department minute papers.

The volume includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.

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1 volume (229 folios)
Arrangement

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

The subject 4929 (Arabia: relations with Bin Rashid) consists of one volume, IOR/L/PS/10/765.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 231; 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 2-229; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.

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