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(7) If any dispute arises between the Government and the Company, which
cannot be settled by the parties, then one arbitrator will be appointed by the
Government and the other will be selected by the Company from the Nation of
which it is the subject. The arbitrator may be a European or an Indian ; the
decision given by the arbitrator to be binding on the Government as well as on the
Company.
(8) This agreement will be for a period of fifty years, at the present, to which
the present Government, their Successors and Representatives will adhere.
(9) As soon as the conditions between you and us are settled and signed, the
work will commence after three months.
The Government will help the Company as far as possible and will not refuse
to do so.
(24)
{Received on the 1st July 1933, with the Political Secretary’s'letter No. 24, dated the
15th June 1933.)
Letter from the Resident, Aden, to the Colonial Office, No. 22, dated the
25th January 1933.
I have the honour to report for your information that Sheikh ’Abdunnabi bin
’Ali Nasir, Sheikh of the ’Alawi Tribe, who was admitted in the Civil Hospital,
Aden, suffering from Pulmonary Tuberculosis of the lungs, died on the 22nd Janu
ary 1933.
2. He was stipendiary Chief, and as soon as a successor has been elected by hi s
tribesmen a further communication will be addressed to you.
Enclosure to Serial No. (24).
Letter from the Resident, Aden, to the Colonial Office, No. 88, dated the
19th April 1933.
I have the honour to refer to Lieutenant-Colonel Lake’s despatch No. 22,
dated the 25th January 1933 [Serial No. (24)], and to state that I have now received
a declaration signed by the customary electors in the Alawi tribe that Sheikh
Muhsin bin Ali Nashir A1 Alawi, brother of the fate Sheikh, has been duly elected
as his successor.
2. Believing this election to have been in order, I have accorded recognition
to Sheikh Muhsin bin Ali Nashir and authorised the payment to him of the stipend
previously enjoyed by his late brother, in accordance with the authority contained
in Colonial Office despatch No. 22, dated 30th May 1929.
(25)
{Received cm the 8th July 1933, with the Political Secretary’s letter No. 25, dated the
22nd June 1933.)
Letter from His Majesty’s Minister, Jedda, to the Foreign Office, No. 113,
DATED THE 14TH APRIL 1933.
No. 1.
Sir A. Ryan to Sir John Simon.—{Received May 8th).
In paragraph 5 of my despatch No. 23 of the 17th January, I stated that,
so far as I could make out, the frontier between Azir and the Yemen appeared to
abut on the sea at the mouth of the Wadi Tashar and to run inland in a direction
which I proceeded to indicate. On re-reading the relevant papers I find that I was
probably too guarded as regards the terminal on the sea. Although it is quite
uncertain whether the frontier has been agreed as regards its whole length and
certain that it has not been delimited, the Saudi official communique published
on the 6th January and forwarded with my printed despatch No. 10 of the 8th
January, speaks definitely of the Wadi Tashar, to which the Saudi troops claimed
to have advanced, as being the furthest district on the coast. It may therefore
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