مجموعة ٦/٨٠ "الحدود الجنوبية والجنوبية الغربية للسعودية" [و‎‎٣] (١٤٠/٥)

376/106/ 91)
350 .
i/516/61)
British Legation,
Jedda.
29th leeember 1936.
/Ji
The Right
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Sir,
I had the honour to receive your views on Hr. Philby 1 a
entry into the Aden Protectorat« f in your telegram H o. 135
dated December 5th. I should have preferred to riispose of the
matter by another conversation with Fuad Bey, but by then he had
left for Riyadh for a stay which might extend to several weeks,
and I therefore wrote to the Amir Fey sal the letter of which
a copy was sent to you under Ho. 319 on T ecember 8th. The reply
of December Elst, which was forwarded in translation under No.
329 of December £2nd, was not satisfactory. The Saudi author
ities continued to defend themselves, which was not necessary,
as their disclaimer had been accepted. On the other hand they
put forward what was obviously a defence supplied by Hr. hilby,
including the Irrelevance ©bout the vagueness of the frontier
and the impertinence about hie readiness to show his British
passport had there been any frontier authorities to show it to.
And they assumed, as the King of the Yemen assumed when
complaining of a similar incursion by Mr. Philby into the
Yemen (this was reported to the Colonial Office in Aden despatch
to. 544 dated November 7th) that as a British subject Mr*
Philby ought to be punished by Nis Majesty’s Government if he
had committed any offence against the laws and regulations of
the Aden Protectorate. I was about to reply to this letter
when/
onourable Anthony Kden, M.C., M*P.,
Ac., Ac.