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File 4929/1918 ‘Arabia: relations with Bin Rashid’ [193r] (395/471)
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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IBH KAiiHIS hu.d returned there from uKSAlV U. .J.H a d <.ye previoualy
He learnt that the iimir wee not on the best of torraa with the
'i'UKJCS but could not get him at that time to divulge the extent
of hie differences with then. IHU KASKID was evidently
wavering but inclined to ait on the fence until he fcnew definitel
whether the munitions and money which ii.SWID IBH Uilh. hid gone
to OOHBSt-flTIflOPidS to denund, were to be sent him or not. In
the meantime he (informmt) explained to IBH HASHIU the scope of
the Sherifian Bevolt, the backing it was receiving from SHKif
Bhl'filBt lta rcal object ▼!*: liberation of the Arabs from
TUhiClSH oppression eto. He found KAlB IB1J HAHHIB profoundly
ignorant of the extent of Xing HUSSXIH'S movement, of the British
support which was being given to it, and of the course of the war
generally. ihe iimir had only SUBXIM reports to go by which
were full of ommam and IfUKXlSH viotoriea. IBH HAiiHIB did not
even know that British offloers were assisting the bherlfian
foroes in their operations against the HKBJAX railway. ABBJ.a
HAiilB KL iSABBI and HASHIi) IBB idilXA had kept him well primed with
the OKHMAH version of the progress oi the war. (MOHA. ^
that ABB BA HAiill) eSoaped when his party was attacked on the
l£^IHA - HAlJt road in July last, and reached HAIL with two or
three Arabs, eventually fleeing to SYKIA) d days later when he
saw IBH BALHIB was wavering in his alleglanoe to the fUiiXa.
IBB EASHIB was glad to be rid of him and mudo no attempt to
prevent his escape to SYHIa. He left HAIL on the night of the
same day as MOIAlSiB him-1* had left in the afternoon for Bmlr
ABBUXLAH'L camp on his first visit there. v,hen IBH WbHIB saw
clearly that 'fUHXXY was not going to give him any further strong
support in return for his loyalty, and realised that UiU
HUSBXIU’B movement was started and being prosecuted solely i»
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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