ملف ٤٢/ ١٩٣١ "ادعاءات الإغارة في مناطق نجد-شرق الأردن" [و‎‎٣‎٣‎٠] (٩٣٠/٦٦٤)

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Enclosure I te Secret
Despatch of 3/l/Sl 0
OFFICE OF THE BRITISH RESIDENT
TRANS«IORDAN
Aman 11th Dec ember * 1930 o
I have the honour to transmit for Your
Excellency 3 s consideration a memorandum written by
Captain JNB* Glubb, OoBoEo* etca* on the question of
raiding between Trans*Jordan and Nejd„ Captain CJlubb
has dealt with the question exhaustively and I trust
that this frank statement from an officer who is a
recognised expert on desert control and who has had
close dealings with Xbn Saoud in the past will bring
home to Your Excellency and to His Majesty ? s Government
the gravity of the well nigh intolerable situation which
has ariseno
2 0 It has been a matter of great regret to me
to see the Trans*Jordan Government and tribes continual'*
ly regarded by His Majesty v s Government as the guilty
parties and to see my efforts to have them protected
and to gain the restoration of their losses by diploma*
tic means bear so little fruit« That this Is the case
is due 1 believe in part to the fact that the raids
reported by RoAoFe Intelligence Officers are notilled
to the Air Ministry® These reports, in my opinion,
should not leave Trans-Jordan until such time as they
have been verified by the local Civil Authorities«
3 Many of the considerations put forward by
Captain Glubb have been represented by me in previous
His Excellency, _ ,
The High Commissioner for Trans^Jordan,
Jerusalem®
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Your Excellency,