"ملف ٢٢\٢٣ II مؤتمر الكويت ١٩٢٤" [و‎‎٨‎١] (٥٤٤/١٦١)

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Govcrnment of Trans Jordonia came into being. To the best of my
belief and as far as I think^the offender is Za’al Abu Taih who
left Trans-Jordania as a fugitive from justice and at the present
time is with the ^ajd Government, and claimed by them as one of
their subjects of the Huwaitat tribe, and I remember that a
portion of the plunder was returned by the Syrian Government.
It was also stated in the same clause that eleven men,
inhabitants of Jauf, were shot in the market place of ’Amman
without having committed any offence. To this I reply that the
men in question were highway robbers who at that time attacked
the workmen of the Railway line between Qasr az-Larqa and al
Mafraq killing six men and stripped them of their clothes and^in
accordance with the orders of the Government the troops at the
salt villages followed them up and arrested them and sent them
to ’ Amman where their crime was proved in court and they were
punished in accordance with the law.
It was stated that the son of ’Abtan bin Jazi of the
Huwaitat attacked a caravan etc suut but the name of the son of
’Abtan is not given and xhijuaxha* I do not agree that the Bani
Sakhr attacked Ibn Sharidah’s caravan. It is a peculiar thing
that the delegates of Najd at one time claim that part of the
Huwaitat are under them and at another complain of Huwaitat
atteha-s S^Naj d subjects.
The village^ attacked by the Ikhwan near ’Amman^is Umm
al-’Amad and the incident took place on the 1st September 1922
and the people who attacked were of Sajir headed by Ibn Muhaiya
of the ’ Utaibah and about two months later Ibn Rubai’an and his
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followers of the Dahimah refuges attacked the Bani Atiyah at the
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pil/gr ims station plundered their donkeys . Two months ago
Dawish and his followers attacked the Fugara tribe. At
one time the Najd delegates say that the Fugara are their subjects
and at another they say that they attacked them.