ملف ٣٠٨٦/١٩١٥، الجزء ٩‏ "الجزيرة العربية: - عسير. توريد الأسلحة إلخ للسيد الإدريسي." [و‎‎١‎٥‎٦] (٣٦٨/٣١١)

Communications on tins subject
should be addressed to—
The Under Secretarf of State,
Colonial Office,
London, S.W.l,
and the following
Number quoted 26141/21 .
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and the followin
Downing Street,
/£> June, 1921.
Sir
I am directed by Mr. Secretary Churchill to
acknowledge the receipt of your letter (No.P.2356) of
tne 25th May, from which Mr. Churchill notes that the
Government of India have some 13,000 rifles of obsolete
British make available for issue to the Idrisi of AiiT
in exchange, rifle for rifle, for those of foreign
pattern now in his possession.
2. Mr. Secretary Montagu will probably share Mr.
Churchill's view tnat it would be much to the advantage
B-itisn interests ii*rifles oi British make could be
substituted for those now in the Idrisi's possession,
since it would enable much more effective control to oe
maintained over the arms supply of the Idrisi. There
are, however, no funds at Mr. Churchill's disposal from
which payment for the British rifles could be made and
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