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File 4929/1918 ‘Arabia: relations with Bin Rashid’ [192r] (393/471)
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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un loth .December King liUtiD* IH inferred mo that he was
Heading KOHaiBD Ki UEQHKIUBI Si FAXtYAfi, IJU) It^HID'S envoy, to
JJ.DDAH on the pretext of eoae prlv-te buaineaB and that he would
ail! on rae.
Oil l£>/li./lf, 17/l^/lt , -nd 18/l^/l6 I had long InterviewB
with this m±xi 9 who io the aime person as visited ISJilK i BDULLAH
recently and was Interviewed by Capt^iin 0AHUJD at YAKBO (see >
latter*8 letter b /9 of 15 / 9 /I 8 ).
He is as described by Captain Q£HJ*1H2>, of keen intelligence
and speaks a little English <-nd Irench but is out of practice
naturally. He is not a Horth African but of extraction.
Hia second narae is as above, and not "iSi* 43A9HE1BX” ua previously
thought.
V»hen he first o iine to HAIh from BYEXa, IBH itaBMIi) was at KL
VL Jli (i^LD lUJ HAlBli), nd before the j«mir returned to H/ X^i he
himself, with two others, visited Amir aaI’S camp at ha SAM
incognito and sounded the Amir as to the aherifian feeling
towards IBH KABHXi). He had known IBH 3SABHID as a boy in .JKDIHA,
where their fathers hud been friends, and struck up a firm friend
ship with him. He also knew that Amir ABDliw.H *nd IBN it b* HID
h;d formally been good friends and he wanted to find out how far
the fact that the chanoo of war hud found IBII KASHID in the enemy
camp would affect the possibility of u reapproaohmont between the
latter and the bheriflans. He found tHtt AaI nursod no bitter
feeling agalnet IBB EABHXD and saw for himself the support the
SHKHItflaB movement was receiving from the BRITISH Uovemmont.
He returned to E^lIA with the impression that if IBB BA3HID could
be brought to make advances to king HUJbKIB and his sons, hie
advances would bo well received. cm arrival H,-IL ho found
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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.
- Extent and format
- 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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- IOR/L/PS/10/765
- Title
- File 4929/1918 ‘Arabia: relations with Bin Rashid’
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:14v, 17r:17v, 19r:20v, 21v:71v, 72Ar, 72r:73v, 75r:77v, 80r:83v, 85r:92v, 94r:95v, 96Ar, 96r:100v, 102v:104v, 105Ar, 105r:119v, 122r:142v, 146r:147v, 148Ar, 148r:167v, 168Ar, 168r:208v, 211r:218v, 221r:230v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence