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File 4929/1918 ‘Arabia: relations with Bin Rashid’ [198r] (405/471)
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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attitude, HAME2 made up hi a mind that IBM SKWii "HiiGAB" had
brought word to FAKH&I that there were negotiatione In progress
between IBfl HASHIP and ICItfG ?A£BEX did not actually
tell him so nor lid he h^ve any opportunity of conversation on
that oooasion with IBS SAUD^ "m:GAB , \ ihat was his last visit
to M&BXIA. He had boon there several times on IBH HAbHXP'H *
business, and had some narrow escapes from SHRHIJPIAM patrols in
the earlier days until ho got oanny and took to travelling by
night and spreading the report that IBB BAbHID was really
friendly to the SHKEIfflAI Cause.
He knew IBN SAtTD'S **&&&&* well and had, on previous visits
to MEDIHA, met him there several times and conversed with him,
and knew he brought letters from IBB B/.UD to ffAKSKX • i~e bad
never actually seen any such letter but he had no doubt about
the fact that they passed because IBB W HS«AB W told him so.
Questioned as to the supply situation in MKDIMA and the
means by which supplies there were replenished, said the
troops were very short of rations, dates forming tJieir staple
food, and the prices of such foodstuffs and luxuries (e.g.cigaretl
tobacco) as were procurable were prohibitive. He suid latterly
no oaravan of any size could got into the tovna owing to the
vigilance of the blockading *rube. Small quantities of sheep,
grain etc. were smuggled in from time to time at night, chiefly
by WWIB Arabs. liQHA^D &L ^GHBIiiBI here said that since the
qu ite early days of the siege of KKBI*A, it had boon impossible
to get caravans through from HAIL as the road was too well
guarded. He knew LtOEAIiLi) agent at AXKXMH had got
through one or two snail caravans of 60 camels or so from that
tom.
In the course of further general conversation SiQUkU&& EL
MKGHEIK3I told me that when IBM BAiiHID fled from EL HEJH to HAIL
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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