ملف ٤٢/ ١٩٣١ "ادعاءات الإغارة في مناطق نجد-شرق الأردن" [و‎‎٣‎٣‎٩] (٩٣٠/٦٨٢)

ibn Musa f ad and Ibrahim al Nashmi to teach the Howeitat
a lesson^ although the latter were equally under the
protection of His Majesty*s Government in Transdano
(Oi w^uch inconsibcencies do Arabian politics oo r ci t
The present writer is now inclined to belie. 0
i<iiac ihe Howeitat raids around Jauf during the winter
1929-30 had no direcc connection with the Duwishls
intention to break through to that area, but that their
oojective was merely to recover some of their property
raided the year before by the Nejd rebelso
In any case, whatever the intentions of the
various parties may have been, Ibn Musa ? ad and Al Nashmi,
in the Spring of 1930, carried out two more crushinp-
raids on the Howeitat in retaliation for their smaller
but more numerous raids on Jauf which wore themselves
in retaliation for the raids of the Nejd rebels*
These two new attacks in force, however, were
in one most important respect different from I :- ins],
raids in that they were carried out by Ibn Saond r s most
trusted lieutenants, undoubtedly on orders from Ibn
Saoud himselfo Whether therefore the Trans-Jordan tribes
had been justified or not in raiding the Jauf tribes as
a reprisal for Ibn Mashh$r ? s attacks, after Ibn Musa ? ad f s
and Al Nashmi*s raids last Spring, no doubt remained in
their minds that Ibn Saoud himself was bent on their
destruction. In this, they had appreciated the situation
correctly. Ibn Saoud was, in reality, bitterly resentful
against the Trans-Jordan raids in the Jauf area which he
regarded as a stab in the back while he was at grips with
the Nejd rebels in the Hast. The Howeitat* on the other
hand, regarded them as only lawful and even vital attempts
to recover the property looted from them by Ibn Mashhur