ملف ١١٦٦/ ١٩٢٥ "الجزيرة العربية: نجد؛ المفاوضات مع ابن سعود بشأن مسألة العراق-نجد وحدود شرق الأردن؛ بعثة السير ج. كلايتون؛ اتفاقية بحرة، الثاني من نوفمبر ١٩٢٥" [و‎‎١‎٠‎٦] (٧٦٩/٢١٨)

No-C.0.1365.
Sir,
The Residency,
Baghdad, dated 21st October
1926.
I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your despatch
^. Jov.- da ,ed the 6th of October, 1926, on the subject of the
constitution ci the Tribunal to be established under Article
2 of the Bahra Agreement.
2. There would appear to be clerical errors in the first
aJiv. second pa; u^rapas of that despatch, as ifr. «Tordan*s des —
j r .wvtcix No.^47 was dated the 15uh of April and not the 15th of
Ma^, , and similarly the date of Ibn Sa’ud's letter, a copy of
which was enclosed v/ith that despatch, was the 11th of April.
3. Mr. Jordan’s suggestion that Ibn Sa’ud is ill-disposed
to the constitution of the tribunal to be established under
the Bahra Agreement appears to ignore the latter’s letter of
the 25rd of Augudt, 1926, a copy of which was sent to you
under cover of my despatch No.1251 dated the 30th of Septem
ber, 1926. In that letter Ibn Sa’ud reiterates his acceptance
of the suggestion that the headquarters of the tribunal /
should be at Kuwait, promises to furnish me v/ith the names ^
and number of the individuals whom he intends to appoint as
members of the tribunal, and specifically mentions that he
attaches great importance to this tribunal. He makes no men
ticn of the suggestion of the ’Iraq Government that the tri
bunal should be presided over by a British officer and his
original reply to this suggestion, contained in his letter
of the 11th of April, was a cryptic reference to Article 2 of
the Bahra Agreement, the meaning of which I have not as yet
been able to discover. It would, appear, however, irom his
correspondence v/ith Mr. Jordan on the subject of die trio ■.i
to be set up under the Hadda Agreement, that Ion Sa’ud is
likely to be willing to agree to a British President, provided
that he holds no official capacity in ’Iraq. I suggest, there
fore, that either I, myself, should again address Ion Sa’ud,
or that you should do so, calling attention to his previous
correspondence