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25 (1935).
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25 (1935).
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91 (1935).
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10. These instructions formed part of a plan for a comprehensive settlement
of all outstanding Anglo-Saudi questions but later this plan was found to be
impracticable and was abandoned. In view of the importance oi the frontier
question, however, His Majesty’s Government determined to pursue its settlement
without reference to other problems in Anglo-Saudi relations.
11. The Saudi Arabian Government were therefore once more presses i
the course of a private conversation between Fuad Bey and Sir A Kyan on the
21st January, 1935, to produce a precise statement of Ibn baud s desiderata.
This request was subsequently renewed on the 1st Maich and a note containing
the Saudi Arabian claims was eventually handed to Sir A. Ryan by I uad Bey
Hamza on the 3rd April. The statement, though not clear on all points, made
extensive demands. In the north Ibn Saud claimed as the boundary with Qatar
a line starting from a point on the west coast of Qatar about fifteen miles north of
Qasr-es-Salwa and running thence for a distance of about five miles in an easterly
direction between the Jebel Nakhsh and the Jebel Dukhan, leaving the former to
Saudi Arabia and the latter to Qatar. From there the line proceeded south-east
and south for a distance of about twelve miles and then continued due east to a
point on the coast of the Persian Gulf about seven miles north of the Khor-el-
Odeid, thus leaving the latter in Saudi Arabia. The proposed boundary started
again from a point on the Persian Gulf sixteen miles south of the Khor-el-Odeid
and, after running to the south for a distance of about ten miles, turned east-
south-east and followed a line curving slightly to the south until it reached the
intersection of meridian 56° East and parallel 22 “ North. From there it followed
meridian 56° East to parallel 19° North, and then ran in a straight line to the
intersection of meridian 52° East and parallel 17° North, whence it continued
along parallel 17° to the point of its intersection with the Violet line.
12. As the above demands (which were based on the areas frequented by
certain tribes) seemed, extensive though they were, to be not unreasonable as an
opening move in the negotiations, Sir A. Ryan proceeded forthwith to the second
stage in the programme summarized in paragraph 9 above and offered the con
cession described in sub-paragraph (ii) thereof.
13. No further important negotiations occurred until the problem was
discussed with Fuad Bey Hamza in Eondon in June and July of the same year
(1935). In the meanwhile, however, the whole question had been reconsidered by
His Majesty’s Government as a result of a report received from the Resident at
Aden in which it was pointed out that the tribes of the eastern Aden Protectorate
exercised exclusive rights up to a line running from the intersection of meridian
55 East and parallel 20° North as far as the Violet line at the point of its
intersection with parallel 18° North and that no Saudi tribes exercised any rights
to the south oi that line. In view of this information it was agreed that the
pi oposed desert zone was likely in the end to be too restricted in area to justify
the complicated regime it would involve. Stages (iii) and (iv) in paragraph 9
abo\e were accordingly abandoned and replaced in His Majesty’s Government's
programme by two further offers of territory in full sovereignty, viz. :—
(a) a line running to a point at least five miles south-west of Banaiyan along
t re line of the concession already offered (paragraph 9 (ii) above) and
to th e intersection of meridian 52° East and parallel 22° 30'
. ^ ’ fb enc e due south along meridian 52 c East to the point of its
m ersec ion with parallel 19 North, and from there in a straight line
to the intersection of parallel 18° North with the Violet line (the
boundaries of this proposed zone came to be called the “ Brown line ”),
(5) the addition to vH of the area bounded by a line running from the inter-
meHdb^^^^ 116 ! 2 ?n ^ ? ort - h an d meridian 52° East due east to
zoo -p N ur t ^ eace ^ lle south to the intersection of meridian
wLu W r 7u he P rolon ^ tio n in a straight line of the southern
boundary of the concession offered ‘ (a)
time it dpridAd fEof v> as nope of its producing a settlement. At the same
make anv concession r j 18 ! a -i est y s Government would not be prepared to
tolhe nl f nd]an ) 53 f ast nor t0 allow Saud, Arabia access
to the 1 ersian Gulf on the eastern side of the Qatar peninsula.