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take precautions to prevent Kejd tribes raiding in tiie future.
In ray opinion, therefore, strong diplomatic action by His
Majesty 3 s Government will achieve both compensation for our o\w.
tribes and prevent raiding in the future c
5o as regards prevention of future raiding* paragraph 4
above gives* in my opinion, a certain method to achieve this,
and there are two other methods:
(a) By military action,,
(b) By other diplomatic action o
As regards (a)„ Military forces oan only prevent raids
provided tiiey ar® given an area in 11115.011 to manoeuvre, -
to say, if vie oan insist on our own tribes keeping viest ana .o±
of the line Asrak - Kasi Et Tuba - Bair - Khabra Uinm RukuDba
Batin el Ohul, then military foross oan take motion againet m-j
Beduin found between that line and the frontier, vnil® i>. - 1 ..y
raiders do cross this area by night and attack at data mi l'
unlikely to return across the frontier before they are disoovnd
and attacked. Colonel Cox and Captain Glubb maintain, that. if our
tribes are forced into this area they will load, during the
winter months, 25* of their flocks through lack of grazing.
Personally X do not agree with this view. Certainly their flocks
may ba very slightly depleted, but so long as our tribes are
permitted to graze along and beyond, the Nejd-Trans-Jordan
frontier, and if military foross are not allowed to patrol
beyond it, the losses incurred by raiding will exceed those
brought about by other causes. At the present moment, owing ,0
shortage .f grazing, our tribes are disposed along the front.o.:,
and I have had to make it quite clear to t*e British Res:k nt s
Amman, that under these circumstances it is utterly impos.
to prevent them either raiding or being raidod,
6 „ The alternative of diplomatic action to prevent raiding
is that Hi* Majesty's Government should inform Ibn Baud that as