"ملف 61/14 III (D 47) العلاقات بين نجد والعراق (غارات مطير على بصية وغيرها" [و‎‎٥‎٢] (٤٥٣/١١٢)

Summary of ctfrespondence with Ihn Sa'ud, etc. —contd.
No.
Description.
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Reference to correspondence.
10
A draffc reply (not reft rred to the ' Iraq Government)
was at once telegraphed to the Colonial Office, repeat
ed Jiddah {An aerial photograph of Bnsaivah
was also seut to Ibu Sa'nd by mail via Jiddah).
High Commissioner's tele
gram No. 480, dated 12th
October, 1927.
11
The Colonial Office, after 16 days'delay, telegraphed
that Jiddah has been authorised to communicate
reply to Ibn Sa'ud ; suggested that the message
should also be sent through Bushire, as Ibn Sa'ud
was reported to have left for Hasa.
Secretary of State's tele
gram No. 385, dated 28th
October, 1927.
12
This was <3oue ; (though it turned out that Ibn Sa'ud
was still at Riyadh).
Note. —An acknowledgment of this message was received by
Consul Jiddah from the Hizaj Ministry of Foreign
Affairs who disputed the location of Busaiyah. No
acknowledgment however was received from Ibn
Sa'ud until the middle of December when the Poli
tical Eesident in the Pursian Gulf received two
letters from Ibn Sa'ud of which copies have not
yet reached the High Commission wide telegram
No. T.-114 dated 15th December, 1927, from Politi
cal Eesident to Secretary of State\
High Commissioner's tele-
giam No. 572, dated 29th
October, 1927.
13
In the meantime a further letter was received from
Ibn Sa'ud acknowledging receipt of the High Com-
nrssioner's letter of August 17th (See No. 8) point
ing out that the High Commissioner had taken
nearly a year to answer his letter and that erection
of a frontier " posts by the 'Iraq Government, even
though intended to check raiding into Najd, were
contrary to the Uqair Protocol. He must therefore
insist on the removal of these fortifications which
were causicg alarm and commotion among his
tribe?.
IS ate. —This letter was referred to the 'Iraq Government and
it was proposed to supply Ibn Sa'ud with detailed
informalion of the position and strength of the posts.
The 'Iraq Government agreed and supplied tlie
information, but the attack on Busaiyah intervened
and the letter was not sent.
Ibn Sa'ud's letter No. 273,
dated 2 J st September,
1927.
14
On November 5th, the day of the Busaiyah attack, Ibn
Sa'ud wrote to the High Commissioner that on
arrival at Riyadh he found that the tribes were
filled with resentment on account of the military
activities of the ' Iraq Government ; he added that
the tribes were on the ' Iraq frontier far from
Headquarters and he could not guarantee the safety
of the frontier unless the frontier forts were dis
mantled. In a second letter written on the same
day he referred to the resentment aroused among
the tribes by the flights of British aeroplanes over
their territory and the visits of cars to the frontier
and neutral zone.
Ibn Sa'ud's letter No.2/3
and No. 3/1003, dated 5th
November 1927.
15
On November 7th, Ibn Sa'ud wrote a further letter to
the High Commissioner stating that information
had just reached him that certain desert tribes had
actually gone out to oppose the construction of the
Busaiyah Post. He had sent forces in pursuit to
stop them and to effect their arrest and punishment
if the report proved true. He again urged the
immediate demolition of the Post.
Ibn Sa'ud's letter No. o/M.,
—27/3/M., dated 7th
November, 1927.