"ملفات 61/12 و 61/16 (D 80) معاهدة بين بان سعود والحكومة البريطانية" [و‎‎١‎٤‎١] (٤٠٨/٢٨٨)

of the Railway held a bailee of £200 # U>0.
ii was understood that the Palegiin^ t
held no wurplui balances oh account of the section of
tne railway operating in Pfileetio^ nd xrana Jordan.
n'iTi aQ u Q flikiiUBi considered that for variouB reasons
e.g. the in ^e'u ey of quarantine arraj«ge;itient« at Mamn.
it oul i be quite inpracticable, in any cane, to m^ke
the whole of the Keja* Railway available for this ye^r'n
pilgririia^e which ^ould Uke pltce in June next. He
suggested that ibn Saud should be informed that hi«
propos 1 that the railway should be put in order for the
forthcoming pilgriaagw was for various practical reasons
impossible, but that the whole riueetion would be taken
up with the French Government with a view to an early
•ettleaeit which would enable all parts of the railway
to be opened before the oil-rima^e of 1926.
The Conference agreed with this view >nd
recoaaajended that early steps should be taken to inform
the ifrench Government of the proposals made by ibn
Saud as set out in itiQ report submitted by Messrs
Jordan and ABiMUia; and that they siiouid be approached
with the object of getting tuem to carry out, in
concert ^ith us f the pro^sr^o e agreed upon last year
between the French and British Gloverntaents and to
prepare the way for a conference of all parties which
should make arrangements for the railway to be in
working order before the 1928 pilgrimage season* Ibn
Saud should also be informed that the British
authorities were discussing miters with the *VenGh t T?ith
a view to steps being taken to secure the reopening of
the railway in time for the 1928 oilgri ia i p.