مجموعة ٦ / ٨ (١) "سلسلة مطبوعة: ١٩٢٩ إلى ١٩٣٨". [و‎‎٣‎٧‎٧] (١٠٦٢/٧٥٨)

attached from th* tetto are of wireless both for efficiency of force and safety
ol personnel i may be preferable not to attempt to disguise fact that main
purpose of flights of April 13th and January 24th was to give assistance in
connexion with wireless. It delivery of spare parts is only referred to, further
enquiries may be made regarding nature and purpose of letter and this will
prove difficult to answer. Yoii may however use your discretion both as to
toHedjazi Goten^ent. 611113 ^ 38 t0 ° f ex P lailatio ^ be given
Air Ministry state that flying boat flew T to Darin not from India but from
Basra. You need not however correct latter statement as reported in para
graph 6 of yonr despatch No. 126 of May 31st unless you consider correction
important.
It has now ^ been ascertained that for purpose of assisting to establish
two-way communication on wireless set lent to Hedjazi Government, one other
unauthorised British flight froin Iraq to Darin and back took place on January
24th. You may inform Hedjazi Government accordingly, if vou think it
■desirable.
TT . T1] i s . refers to your despatch No. 116 of May 18th alleged violation of
Hejaz-Nejd territory by British aircraft.
(38)
(Received on 20th July 1930, with Political Secretary’s letter No. 27, dated
3rd July 1930.)
Letter from H. M.’s Minister, Jedda, to the Foreign Office, No. 115, dated
the 18th May .1930,
With reference to Mr. Bond’s despatch No. 102 of the 2nd instant report
ing the arrival of a Polish mission under Count Edward Raczynsky, I have the
honour to report that the members of this mission were received by the King
on the 3rd instant.
2. In a somewhat fulsome speech delivered by him on this occasion, which
has been published in the “ Um el Qura ”, Count Raczynsky dwelt upon the
reciprocal advantages to be derived from commercial intercourse between the
tv T o nations. He also made some remarks about the King’s prowess in the
defence of religion which may possibly be regarded by his compatriots as
being somewhat inapposite. The following is the passage to which I refer:—
“ Your Majesty’s reputation as the most pious King and the greatest
defender of Religion increases and spreads daily among Your
Moslem brethren in Poland, who have lived in the far North for
many centuries. These Moslems have been treated by the Polish
nation as brothers because of their excellent reputation and because
of their heroism and bravery in the defence of their homeland
along with their Polish brothers when enemies attacked their
country.
Their representative and their Religious Head, the Grand Mufti Yakub
Sinkfwiteh, has come here me to-day in order to establish firm and
friendly relations with the source of their Religion, and to congra
tulate Your Mojesty on Your accession to the throne of the Holy
Lands and on Your defence of them.”
3. The replv read on behalf of the King echoed in rather more moderate
language the Sentiments of the Polish Envoy. His Majesty compared the
Arab and Polish nations in the matter of courage, referred with pleasure to
what had been said about the Moslems in Poland and expressed confidence that
the mission would have the best effect on economic relations between the tw T o
countries.
4. The report in the 3 4 * Fm el Qura ’ ’ states that after the exchange of
speeches the Envoy informed Ibn Sand of his recognition by Poland as King
of the Hejas, Nejd and its Dependencies, for wffiich the King expressed thanks.
I am not yet aware of the nature of any agreement which may have been con
cluded.
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