"ملف 61/14 III (D 47) العلاقات بين نجد والعراق (غارات مطير على بصية وغيرها" [و‎ج‎‎٣] (٤٥٣/١٣)

Telegram
From
Political Agent, Kuwait
To
Political Resident, Bushire^
Repeated
High Commissioner, Baghdad.
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No. 268.
Dated 31st Deceinber 1927 received 1st January 1928.
Following is opinion regarding situation of
affairs in desert country.
Dawish is acting contrary to Ibn Saud's wishes
and the latter is just as anxious for peace on the "border at
the present time as we are. He is in a very difficult
position however as he is hated in Hejaz and has enemies in
Hejd even among his own family (his brother and nephew were
almost certainly at the "bottom of the plot to murder his son
and I"bn Jilawi last sommer), and the people whom he has to
rely on most to keep him on his throne are the Ikhwan tribes.
Consequently, although he is extremely annoyed with them,he
will not dare to try to punish the Mutair, particularly in
view of the oath taken by Dawish, Sultan bin Humaid, Ibn
Hithlain in 1926 mutually to support each other in such a case
On the other hand it is probable he will re-establish his
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authority by persuasion and peaceful means and will then be
in a position to keep tribes quiet, at any rate for some time.
would be
This is what is hoped will happen as anything better than
the appalling chaos which would follow revolution in Hejd
even if it did remove ban on trade with Kuwait.
which Dawish has up to the present enjoyed are having a very
prejudicial effect on our prestige in Arabia (Irak Government
hAs no prestige and is looked on as a negligible quantity).
It is argued our areopianes cannot protect the frontier or
not understood i our reason for not retaliating and punishing
Mutair by bombing them or their villages is that we cannot ?
Meanwhile recent events and success in raid
harm raiders.
Our respect for treaties and frontiers is
or