ملف ٤٢/ ١٩٣١ "ادعاءات الإغارة في مناطق نجد-شرق الأردن" [و‎‎١‎٩] (٩٣٠/٤٢)

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No,212. BRITISH LEGATION,
JEDDA.
^ November 7th, 1931.
Your Royal Highness,
After Compliments,
I have uhe honour to inform Your Royal Highness that
my government have hao. under consideration the contents of
Your Royal Highness 1 note to me, No. 7/2/127 of the 27th Rabi*
ath-Th&ni (September 10).
I also have the honour to take note of the acceptance
by the Hejaz-Nejd Government of my Government's finding in
the matter of the claims, Ttfiich arose from raids made prior
to the 1st August 1930.
As regards the claims arising from raids made since
that date, my Government have learned ?dth some surprise of
his Majesty the King's enquiry regarding the procedure to
be followed. Your Royal Highness cannot fail to recall that,
after a protracted correspondence on certain points of detail,
it was agreed that these claims should be examined jointly by
C aptain Glubb and Sheykh 'Abdul 'Aziz ibn Zeyd, the Hejaz-Nejd
representative on the Trans-Jordan frontier. As I have
already had occasion to make clear to Your Royal Highness*
Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Sheykh 'Abdul 'Aziz,
while admitting at his meeting with Captain Glubb of August
15th that he had instructions to discuss these claims, stated
nevertheless that he had not yet prepared a list of the hejaz-
Nejd claims. In these circumstances it was impossible to
proceed to an examination of the comparatively important and
complicated claims relating to raids made between the 1st of
August 1930 and the 19th Januaiy 1931 (1st Ramadhlin 1349).
The few and simple claims for the period subsequent
latter
The Minister for Foreign Affairs,
MECCA.