ملف ٧٢٥١/١٩٢٠ الجزء ٢ "الجزيرة العربية: الحدود بين نجد والعراق وبين نجد والكويت؛ معاهدة العراق-نجد؛ اتفاقية نجد-الكويت" [و‎‎١‎٤‎١] (٣٦٠/٢٧٧)

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No. 170-S of 1922.
Bfitlsn Hesideacy & Consulate-General,
Bushire, 25th February 1922.
Fro.ii
To
Tne Hon*ble Lieut-Colonel A.P.Trevor, C.S.I. ,C.I.Ec ,
Political Resident ia the Persian Gulf,
Tne Hon'ble ,lr. Denys de S. Bray, C.S.I. ,C.I.E. ,C.B.E. ,
Torei^i Sec re Gary to tne Governinent of India
in tie Foreign and Political Department, Delhi.
Proposed treaty between Iraq and Uejd
Sir,
\bi reference go the correspondence ending with
ny office endorsement No. 156-S, dstfed 18th February 1922
regaming tne proposed treaty between Iraq a,oa Nejd I have
tne honour to forward herewith for the information of t,.a
Government of India a copy of a telegram froi; the political
No. 36-C,dated 20 th February 1922. i Agent, Bahrein giving the
gist of Bin Baud's repl v
tc the High Commissioner's telegram No. 123 , dated 25th
January.
It will be seen that Bin Sauu noee not ngree to
the proposals made by Sir Percy Cox. I think it possible
that Bin Saud views with suspicion proposals
emanating f ro.n Baghciad, o j ac co uet o f B eghdad being the
headquarters oi King Faisul v/ith whom he is at enmity; he
nay perhaps think tnat his interests vis-a-vis Iraq are
prejudiced by the British official on the Commission being
coanec ted witn Iraq.
If so his fears are of course quite unfounded,
but he might be more amenable if his political relations
witn His majesty's Government were not conducted through
their