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File 57/1928 Pt 7 'Iraq-Nejd relations: Frontier Situation (1928). Printed Correspondence.' [‎4r] (7/188)

The record is made up of 1 item (99 folios). It was created in 8 Jan - 19 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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Phis is the result of misunderstanding of our object in our said letter to His
. Excellency the High Commissioner for Iraq. Therefore we want to explain
in t is our lettei certain points so that it may remove the misunderstanding
that resulted from our previous letters.
Many of the Iraq and Transjordanian tribes had previously attacked Najd
tribes. Were those tribes in their raids obeying the orders of the Iraq aud
Transjordan Used in three contexts: the geographical region to the east of the River Jordan (literally ‘across the River Jordan’); a British protectorate (1921-46); an independent political entity (1946-49) now known as Jordan ^Governments or not ? Most certainly they were not obeying but
were disobedient and (acting) against their orders, thus the Iraq and Transjor
dan Governments were not to able to stop them from their bad action and if
they had been able to do so they would have done it. But those tribes came
and plundered and then returned to their living places quite safely and peace
fully and we never heard that any of those tribes was punished for raiding our
tribes. Last year we were informed by His Excellency the High Commis
sioner that a party of Shammar who are residing in Iraq went against the
orders of the Iraq Government and proceeded to the Syrian desert to rendez
vous there with the intention of raiding our tribes and that an Iraq force
supported by a British one was not able to set right that tribe and
prevent it from its bad action. But when we were attacked by those mis
chievous raiders and when we received the letter of His Excellency the
High Commissioner that the Iraq Government were not able to stop
the Shammar tribe we never explained that the Iraq Government were
not able to punish their tribes and they had no more contro over them
neither did we take the right in our hands by pursuing thosel raiders
into the interior of their country and punishing them there. As we
know that what they had done was contrary to the opinion of their Government,
rve can see no difference between the two situations, that of the Iraq Govern
ment towards the raiders of their subjects and our present situation and the
attack of the Dawish and his followers about w T hom we informed the British
Government just as they (British Government) informed us of the movement of
Shammar. However, we were open in our mention of matters which the
Iraq Government used to keep quiet. We said that w r e had a more careful
watch at the frontier but in spite of such watch some of the tribesmen had
gone out and done what happened without our knowledge. Then wu said that
we did not punish the Dawish for his action of which vre disapprove as we
know that the Iraq Government welcomes everyone whom we punish on their
behalf who goes to them as they did in the case of Yusuf-as-Sa’dun and
his Najd followers and as they recently did with Bin Mijlad when we punished
him on their behalf. We will not punish the Dawish unless we get an under
taking that when we punish him the Iraq Government undertake not to accept
him or any of those who took pare with him. The situation in Najd which
we explained has got a counterpart in Iraq every day and every hour, but
the misunderstanding of the object of our letter is the cause of news emanating
from the British House of Commons and the Chamber of Deputies in Iraq
that there are disturbances and troubles in Najd while there are no distur
bances and no trouble. . All that happened is that some bedouins attacked Iraq
tribes just as A1 Mayiq of the Shammar residing in Iraq who went out
against the (will) Iraq Government attacked the Shararat tribe at Jauf. He
(Mayiq) was accompanied by thirty camel-men. He plundered three
herds (of camels). A second time he repeated this actionc in the company
of 15 creators of trouble and attacked the Shararat and took three other
herds. We will write to His Excellency the High Commissioner and
protest against the action of A1 Mayiq ; and what is the difference between the
action of the Mayiq and that of the Dawish ? But we took the way of being
frank in saying so that we may come to a firm agreement (understanding).
While our authority over our tribesmen and subjects is regular and complete
it was never explained in the past that when a raiding party goes out to
another country the Governmeut had no authority over its people and subjects.
The action which you informed us of, that is that the British Government
intend to send their aeroplanes into the interior of our country for the punish
ment of our subjects, this, just as we said in our letter which we sent previous
to this one, is a new principle which no Government law will accept. And if
the British Government find it an accepted principle an agreement should

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The part contains copies of correspondence from British Government officials concerning the situation on the frontier between Iraq and Koweit [Kuwait], and the Kingdom of Hijaz [al-Ḥijāz], Nejd, and Dependencies, particularly in terms of raids by Akhwan [Ikhwan] tribesmen (also referred to as 'Wahabis').

The part includes correspondence from the Colonial Office, the High Commissioner for Iraq, the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , and the 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. , Kuwait. The correspondence is dated roughly November 1927-February 1928. The part also contains correspondence from Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd].

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File 57/1928 Pt 7 'Iraq-Nejd relations: Frontier Situation (1928). Printed Correspondence.' [‎4r] (7/188), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/PS/10/1239/1, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100070121837.0x000015> [accessed 29 March 2024]

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