File 87/1926 Pt 2 'Arabia: Bin Saud: Relations with H.M.G. Revision of Treaty.' [‎168r] (23/840)

attack upon torritoiy ^'or which Hla tfajcsty* a CIcTwmwcnt
♦•arc responaible* Hi« Vajecty 1 a ^OTcmwent cannct allcir
"Akhw&ri forces to Tiolato the frontier laid down, and if an
* Akhwnn force attempt a to enter Akaba, Hie l^agosty'e
H aovemw#mt will inevitatay be compelled to take men atepe
n ae are necceeary to prevent or e^oct thew Hie w»Jeety , e
“froTempient are taking steps to establish the withority of
•the trail a^ordan adr^lu 1st ration in the whole area within the
•bevndary communicated to you in October last**
The threatened attack on Akaba neTcr materialised:
ex-Kim? Hussein was removed in one of H.r*3hips to Cyprus;
2bn 3aud called off ni* troops* He acknowledged the British
lavemment^ communication by a statement that he had •noted
•ite contents*. He also aaxed for further information about
Vann. Vr. Jordan snewered this query on Mimist 12, 192b # by
rerlndinx His Highness of the Communication of October 21,
1924, •which etetes that the boundary crosses the railway in
*tho neighbourhood of Vudawarra*.
In reply I bn amid wrote to Vr. Jordan *As for fixing
•up the frontiers, this will be the subject of discussion with
•ths >evemmont• o delegate 4 (i*.e» >ir h* Clayton).
ir 0* flay ton told His Hi dun ess on October 11, 192t,
at his first formal meeting with I bn Svtud before the Pahr*
negotiations, that, while it was no part of his mission to
discuss the 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 -Hejam frontier with him, he was
empowered to inform him that His Vajeaty*s heyemment had
decided that the line enould eventually be drawn frost a point
on the aulf of Ababa situated at tone distance south of the
town of Aksba, through a point on the Heja* rai iwav couth of
the etatlon of Vudawarra* to a point situated approximately
at the intersection of meridian with parallel 29°3b* H•
He added th*t Hie hajesty^o Government fixed this last j^int