ملف ١٩٢٦/٨٧ الجزء ٢ "الجزيرة العربية: ابن سعود: العلاقات مع الحكومة البريطانية. مراجعة المعاهدة." [و‎‎١‎٦‎٧] (٨٤٠/٢١)

Th# •tr«t«4arie frontier required for tuio purpose
mviet in elude Fean end Akebe*
A weeeafce wne therefore sent to Ibn 3eud inforwin«
0 ^ him where the frontier lev beyond which nie *ah*M» must net
pees. This message wee eon twined in a telegram sent on
October lfe # 1934, bv the Colon!el Office te the Heeldent in
the Persian (TuIf and ran as follows:•
*His Uejssty• m ftovemnent think it necessary te
"inform the Bultan that they will regard unprovoked aggression
"within the boundary defined in Colonial office telegram te
"Colonel Knox of tioyember fc # 1925" (details of vhieh are
qtioted abowe) "as an attack upon territory for whieh they are
"responsible, and that they sill continue, as in the paet, to
"reserre to themselyes full liberty of action to deal with
•such aggression in ths manner they think best,"
This messags was conyeyed to Ibn Baud in a letter
from the relltleal A^ent at Bahrein dated uetober 21, 19«24.
Throughout the winter of 1924~2b King Hussein,
hsving fled from Jeddah, lev in his yacht off Akaba and, In
spite of British protests, carried cm continual Intrigues
with ©sir Abdullah against the invading Wahabis, The prove*
cation eventually became so great that, in spite of His
Fajssty 1 * Government 1 s warning of October 1924, Ibn Sand
decided to despatch a fores against Akaba in Fay 192b,
This threat caused His Fajssty'e Goyemment te
issue two ultimatums (1) to King Hussein, ordering him te
leage Akaba at once, on the ground that by his activities
there he was involving His Fajesty** hovwmment, ths mandatdfcy
,tel«Ho*3& for Transjordan, in a breach cf neutrality, and (2) to Ibn
Jeddah, hay
r, 192b - Baud, reminding him that Aksba lay within the boundary noti-
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fled to him in October 1924, "Any unprovoked aggression en
"four Highness 1 pert"# the warning ran, "would be regarded as
"an
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