"ملف 61/6 VI (D 70) شؤون نجد (الملف العام لابن سعود) المدفوعات النهائية لابن سعود بدلاً من الإعانة" [و‎‎١‎٤] (٥١٤/٣٨)

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time anxious to promote a friendly understanding and
maintain good relations*
5» I have prepared a statement attached to this
report of the oorrespondenoe covering the negotiations
to which I shall he obliged to refer constantly in the
course of this report. At the preliminary interview,
Syed Hashim presented letters 3,5 and 7, translations
of which are duly forwarded and will be found amid the
accompaniments to this report* These letters were
read and then passed on for careful translation* And
I then took the opportunity of raising with the envoy
in the course of a general conversation, various matters
of interest to the Sultan of Nejd and myself. As I had
only Just returned from Kuwait, our conversation turned
naturally on the blockade whiah Bin saud has established
in hia territories against caravans proceeding from
Kuwait to Central Arabia. Finding my hearer sympathetic
with the Kuwait point of view, I sketched to him generally
my suggestions for a settlement of the disrute. These
suggestions are embodied separately in my despatch No* 898-s
dated 20th June 19S3 to the Secretary of state for the
Colonies, which is being sert to the Government of India
separately; and in that despatch I have referred at length
to the reply hazarded by syed Hashim as to the possible
views of his master on the matt er* in dispute and their
settlement*
6* I then turned to the question of the subsidy
to his Highness the Sultan of Nejd and the orders of
His majesty's Government directing its discontinuance*
I was the more impelled to this as during my resent
interview with Shaikh Khazal of Mohammerah at Ahwaz on
the 6th of June, the Shaikh to my embarrassment had himself
raised the matter by a blunt and direct/^ question "Was
it really true that Government had stopped Bin Sa'ud's
subsidy ? I fenced with the question but with ^very
small degree of success* It was evident that the in
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