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question of frontier camels and whom he had invited to come to Mecca for the
pilgrimage. The sheikh had been unable for financial reasons to accept this
invitation.
New Trade Route.
~*31. See January-February report, paragraph 28. Nothing further was
heard of the project for an overland route from the Hasa coast to the Hejaz.
Early in April the newly-returned Persian Charge dAffaires spoke of it to
Sir A. Ryan as a matter which had been talked of but could not be regarded for
the present as practical politics. In the meanwhile the Persian Government seem
to be mainly interested in diverting their pilgrims from the route across Syria to
the all-sea route from Muhammaran to Jedda by Russian ships.
Yemen and A sir.
32. On the 11th March the Hejazi Minister for Foreign Affairs wrote
officially to the Legation asking that, as Sabiyan and Jizan were not covered by
the agreement between the Hejazi Government and the Eastern Te egr p
Company (which agreement precludes the former from using other means o
telegraphic communication with the outside world), arrangements should be made
to establish wireless communication between Jizan and Aden ^ “rml
purposes. The Legation was also asked to arrange for postal communication
with a similar object between Jizan and Kamaran.
33. The primary interest of these proposals was that the J ass ™ 1 ® < Llled
Majesty’s Government’s acquiescence m the new status of As ' r , F ®,, eien office
a fresh' review of the situation in further letters addressed by the Foreign Uttice
to the Colonial Office and India Office (January-February Paragraph 301
On the 28th March the Foreign Office lent to the view that ^ e , “T; t he
regard to Asir should be ^recognised, subject to previous consultation with
Kalian Government^.^ unofficially bv Mr. Champion^
tn A Rvan it seems probable that the establishment of a v
si jSs ,■*
commercial messages, presents no great practical difficul t ^ j j t t s
postal service to Kamaran may be complicated by the dubious international
of tha ^ ls There do not appear to have been any ™P°^ aa J d ^ e ^ P “pert s m from
situation between Ibn Saud and the Imam . a "j information is difficult
Aden, which may well be accurate, althoug in P , imam to agree to a
to come by in Jedda, Ibn Saud has recently sen P J> rp| ie despatch to Sana
delimitation of frontiers and the Imam has been g p h A1 Hashimi and
of two members of Nuri Pasha’s mission, vi Taha “ ^ relat io ns .
Muwaffak Bey, is of some interest m a re underwood to have
They left Jedda for Massowah on the 13th Apn pagha was former i y
visited Asmara during an enforced stay m j mam Nuri Pasha told
Turkish Chief of Staff in the Yemen and knows 1 • takg umb
Sir A. Ryan that he had assured himself that Ibn bauu w ^ Yemen He said
at the two delegates being sent straig ro j 0 f any re sentment in the
that he had offered good offices . tow ^ ® Kin^ had reacted favourably and
Imam’s mind over Ibn Saud s Asir policy. f ma m Nuri Pasha, however,
charged the delegates -f Jy^^n^p^senLd ^ ^.00 to Sana as being
m his conversation with Sir A. Rya F conceived with a view to the
mainly in the nature of a I nowV very much,
exploration of a situation of which no one knows very mi
HI.—Relations with
States outside Arabia.
British Empire.
4 .- , Lnncr as a cloud over the general
36. The Transjordan frontier ffuestioi g H ■ Ne j d dul .i ng the whole
position between His Majesty’s Government and the liej c
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