ملف ٤٢/ ١٩٣١ "ادعاءات الإغارة في مناطق نجد-شرق الأردن" [و‎‎٣‎٩‎٨] (٩٣٠/٨٠٠)

Means of
comrauni oat ion not only slcm "but at times* and in
districts quite unsafe so that a man might wai pei'hans
five to six months 'before finding it oossihle to nroceed
from one place to another, nirelesa is now ‘being installed
there, and motor cars are coming into greater use so
that there are not now the same cauase for delay as
previously, £or do the earae delay© an-near to occur, 'but 1
think it in fair to hold that months, even extending to a
year or more should not necessarily he Cion side red as
barring a claim, the more uo when it is remembered that
each claim had to receive the hing 1 s personal attention
and in his absence might he nig eon-holed for months, if
so bureaucratic a term may be applied to a civil service
still very Much in embryo, where most oi tiit. 1*1 iting i e
done by hand and the ascertainment in tecca,
Biadh, Hail or wherever the King may be 0 .=. evente
occurring on the Frontier# of vranaJordan, a pursuit in
raontha nmy not unreasonably iwr* been epent or loet.
X have consequently not given to this condition the weight
it sight w* tnought to deserve, and have adB&ttad to
investigation all claims notified to »» which have been
oomraunicated to H.B.H. Rwre.entativ* at Jeddah up till
August 1st 19 JO, the date fixed by «e as the beginning of
ray investigation, reserving to nys.lf to cake reoo^endatl...
regarding delay if and when the circu-stane. geared to