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137. QATAR
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of Oatar 5 has
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Abdullah
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s seventy
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nis heir-apparent Shaikh
11 is expected
ais family
Shai’* e Aih-lh a ^U° r ’ ab0Ut t'° months his eldest”son
bnaiiin „o cnai-ge auring nis absence»
138. SAUDI ARABIA
(i) Shaikh Mohammad bin
sa has recently returned
./ ■ M.
11 -'
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were arrested. Some of
is understood that from
ni-i-o
Bahrain,
The 24th December 1940
Sd/~ RoG. Alban
Political Agent ? Bahrain
.rom nis annual xiunting expedition in Saudi Arabia. It is
gatnerea ^rom memoers of his party that a plot which had as
ioS object u,:e o^erfnrow of the Saudi regime had been dis
covered« •“**'» is said that three important members of the
Sharij-ian family^ were at tne bottom of it and that they
intended to proclaim the Amir Abdullah of Transjordan as
King of the He c ]az They are further said to have visited
Cairo where they met Amir Abdullah who was then on a visit
to Egypt., ^ Aftel this meeting they returned- to Mecca and pro
ceeded to hold secret, meetings in the course of which they
invited Sharif Hazza : » an influential member of the Sharifian
family a no. a oaiiQi. l-o { ^. oin oxiem 0 if appears uhat he was
unwilling mo do this and only yielded under threats. However,
having seen their papers and plans he at once proceeded at
midnight to Amir Faisal and reported the matter, Amir Feisal
immediately sent out a police force to’arrest the conspirators
and it was only after some shots had been exchanged and three
of them killed that the remainders:
the police also were injured, It
the documents discovered a number of other persons were
found to be implicated in the plot and that the conspirators
were well financed. Some of them were residents of Hasa
and orders have been issued for the arrest of them all.
There was a rumour current also that about 3000 persons were
intending to gather at Mecca disguised as pilgrims with the
object of staging a coup d'etat at the time of Amir Abdullah’s
presence on Haj, The above events are being kept very quiet
by the Saudi Government and if is said thaf xbn^Saud has^
requested foreign powers not to give them^publicity as it
might prevent persons from proceeding on pilgrimage and thus
affect the finances of the create *
(ii) It has also been widely reported that some ^Saudi
pilots, said to be six in number^ were found fo be in communi
cation with the Italians and to be receiving luncs from Bagh
dad. Thev were found fo be in possession oi illegal wireless
transmitting sets. All are said to nave been execu e .
139. METEOROLOG ICAL
Maximum temperature *, 78,3'^ on the 13th December
Minimum temperature 58 . 4 ^ on one .._.h Decembe
Humidity exceeded 70% througnout tne fortnight,
themaSfflL feeing 96% on the 12th December.
Rainfall -
Attested
y
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Assistant Political Agent,
Bahrain,