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THIS ■DOCU.uu^T lo i uGiriJiTY OF HIS BRITiiMin MA.T^STy'S ar/gKKm.T^
March 4, 1935.
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Section 7,
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No. 1.
A t P t .yan to Sir John S imon ~ (Received March 4. )
(No.40.)
Jedda, February 12', 1935.
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WITH reference to ray despatch No.26 of the 29th
January, I have the honour to state that on the 6th February
I discussed at some length with Fuad Bey Hamza the effect of the
Saudi regulations on real property promulgated last October, and
of the interpretative communique of the 18th January, As this
discussion was of a general nature, exploratory on my part and
explanatory on the part of Fuad Bey, I do not think it necessary
to record it in detail. The principal thing that emerged from
it was that Fuad Bey, who had nothing to do with the promulgation
of the regulations, is greatly embarrassed and has been trying
to make the best of a bad job. His conversations with the
foreign representatives, several of whom have shown interest in
the subject, may encourage him to make a further enort to undo
the mischief wrought by Sheikh Yusuf Yasin and others in his
absence.
2, Another fact of some importance which emerged from my
oonTersation with Tuad Bey is that the Saudi Government have raada
the mess, into which they have got themselves by oiieir ill-
considered legislation, still messier i'y trying i-o import into,
it conceptions and one or two terms derived from the former
Ottoman legislation on one particular iind cf properly, viz..
Government or "Miri" land. This was, as you ore aware, the ^
subject of elaborate Turkish legislation^see Young-s Corps de