ملف ٤٢/ ١٩٣١ "ادعاءات الإغارة في مناطق نجد-شرق الأردن" [و‎‎٣‎٩‎٣] (٩٣٠/٧٩٠)

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My Lo rd,
I have the honour to forward the following report on
my mission:
Waving received ay instruotiona on May 15th, 1 left
London on noth and tirooeeded via -’ort Sudan to Jeddah where
•Jir h. Tiyan, ’.B.i!.* a sinister, and 1 were received by
H.M. King Ihn iaoud on June 7th. A long oonverention led
to little of a nraotical or definite nature regarding the
nrooedure to he adopted or the assistance to he furnished by
the he jar 0 over run ent. Further conversation® with lie
Majesty’* advisers during the next three days led to hut
meagre results, the only definite one being the promise to
attach a sort of agent to the mi 8 si on who should n re sent
the claims and be responsible for the production of evidence
and documents. The general impression left on my mind by
the conversations wan that, an impartial enouiry was not parti
cularly welcome to the King who considered that the need# of
the situation would be adequately met by a perusal of the
files in the Ministry »t Jeddah which would supply all the
data necessary to form an opinion on the subject matter of
the enouiry. (A detailed report on the negotiations at
Jeddah has been furnished by Sir A. Ryan to the Foreign Office
From Jeddah X proceeded via Cairo to Amman where I had
conversations on the same subjects, but with more satisfactory
results, with H.l. the Amir Abdallah of Transjordan. The
. 4 T hn Saoud that instead
Amir agreed to a mmlft ,y *• €
of participants or eye-witnesses of the raid being <,».ird
the enquiry, tribal spokesmen should be selected by the two
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