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File 57/1928 Pt 7 'Iraq-Nejd relations: Frontier Situation (1928). Printed Correspondence.' [66r] (131/188)
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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Telegram P
Prom
To
High Commissioner, Baghdad,
Secretary of State for Colonies, London, Ho.9
Repeated
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.
, Bushire, } .
) Ho. 4-3
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. )
Dated 4th received 5th January 1928
Your telegram Ho. 1
Question of attacking trihal headquarters has
■been discussed with Mesopotamian Ministers and Air Officer
Commanding. Unanimous opinion is that such attacks are
impracticable. Except at Artawiyah, which is too remote,
buildings are not known to exist - other places are merely
wells or small oases where tents are pitches and occupants would
presumably scatter on receipt of warning and render subse
quent useful operations impossible. Existing maps are very
inaccurate and there is no British officer in Mesopotamia
with sufficient local knowledge to insure machines reaching
their objectives.
Whatever operations are undertaken they must
fulfill two equally important aims (i) to put immediate stop
to raids (ii) to punish Mutair as severely as possible.
These objectives can, in ray opinion and that of the Air
Officer Commanding, be obtained by exercising air control
over as large an area of Hejd territory as possible. Two
air bases under armoured car protection will therefore be
established immediately. Bases will be well within
Mesopotamian frontier at first but will be gradually moved
as far south as consideration of supplies, etc., renders
practicable, being finally located if possible at both ends
of neutral zone. Warning will be dropped on parties camped
or grazing in territory v/here Mutair usually graze, telling
them to retire four days march south of frontier. II they do
not do so they will be attacked. Moving bodies unaccompanied
by
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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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