"ملف 8/15 سلسلة الجزيرة العربية - ١٩٣٣-١٩٣٩" [و‎‎٣] (٤٣٤/٥)

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Memorandum from the High Commissioner for EgypTj No. 119]21133, dated the
14th February 1933.
The First Secretary of the Residency presents his compliments to the Sec
retary to the Government of India in the Foreign and Political Department,
Delhi, and is instructed to transmit herewith a copy of the undermentioned
paper :—
Description of Enclosure.
Name and date. Subject.
To Chancery, British Legation, Kabul, Arabia. Anti-Ibn Saud, Movement—
No. 119| 21133, dated the 14th Febru- Syed Abdel Raouf El Sabban.
ary 1933.
Enclosure to Serial No. (1).
Letter from the Cairo Residency, to the British Legation, Kabuh, No. 119|21|
33, dated the 14th February 1933.
Witlj reference to your letter No. 185 of January 18th, enclosing copy of a
telegram from the. Special Section of the Public Security Department in Cairo,
relative to the movements of Saved Abdel Raouf El Sabban, we are informed
that , the Egyptian authorities have no reason to believe that this individual
intends to vjsit Afghanistan. They merely circularised various authorities by
cable, instructing them not be give him a visa for Egypt.
We can add nothing to the descriptive details of Abdel Raouf El Sabban
given you in the Amnkhas telegram. He is a moving spirit in the so-called
“ El Dabbagh Conspiracy ” against the Saudi regime in Arabia and is on the
lists of persons prohibited from entering Palestine and Egypt, We Last heard
of him as being in Baghdad on January 18th last.
We are sending a copy of this letter to His Majesty’s Embassy, Baghdad,
and to the Foreign and Political Department, Government of India.
( 2 ).
{Received on 4th February 1933, with Political Secretary's letter No. 3, dated
19th January 1933.)
Enclosure in Colonial Office covering letter, dated 14th January 1933.
Letter from the C. C., Aden, to the Colonial Office, No. 251, dated the 21st
December 1932.
I have the honour to report that Sultan ’Abdulla bin Tsa bin ’Afrar, the
recognised Chief of Socotra and Qishn died on 6th January 1932.
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I have now received a declaration—signed by certain of the late Sultan’s
relations and also by certain notables and tribal Sheikhs, that Sultan ’Ali bin
Salim bin Ahmed bin Tu’ari bin ’Afrar, cousin of the late Sultan, has been elect
ed as his successor.
Believing this election to have been in order, I have accorded recognition to
Sultan ’Ali bin Salim and authorised the payment to him of the stipped previ
ously enjoyed bv his late cousin, in accordance with the authority contained in
Colonial Office Despatch No. 22, dated 30th May 1932.
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{Received on 18th February 1933, with Political Secretary's letter No. 5, dated
2nd February 1933.)
Enclosure in Foreign Office, covering letter, dated 26th January 1933.
Letter from the Foreign Office, to the British Embassy, Baghdad, No. E.-6454|
397125, dated the 15th December 1932.
We see that Jedda have sent y r ou direct a copy of their despatch No. 448 of
November 14th about the appointment of Muwaffaq-al-Alusi, a renegade Iraqi,
as legal adviser in the Saudi Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
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