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Enclosure 2 in No. 1 .
King Ali to Acting British Agent and Consul, Jeddah.
28.5.1344 {December 1C 1925).
FOR the sake of avoiding bloodshed I have decided to withdraw and leave
the country. I wish to reside in Transjordania or Bagdad or Palestine.
2 . I should like that His Britannic Majesty’s Government would mediate
in the matter of surrendering the country in such calm and peaceful manner that
will guarantee the comfort and safety of all the civil and military employees, shereefs
and Bedouin, and provide means of transport for those who wish to leave’with me
from my private suite and those who wish to go back home.
3. Please find enclosed herewith some points which I beg that necessary steps
should be taken m applying and carrying them out through your Excellency.
ALI-BIN-HUSSEIN.
Enclosure 3 in No. 1 .
List of Conditions submitted by King Ali.
IN order to avoid bloodshed and anarchy in the interior of the country, I found
it better, in the name of humanity, to ask His Britannic Majesty’s Government
to mediate (separately or jointly with some or all of the Powers who have subjects
in the Hejaz as His Majesty’s Government would like) and to take the necessary
measures regarding the following points :—
1 . I have decided to leave and depart from the country in order to avoid
bloodshed, provided that my rights and those of my country should not be surrendered
to Ibn Saud. I wish to reside with my private suite either in Bagdad, Transjordania
or Palestine.
2 . Immediate steps to be taken to stop the war going on between us and the
Sultan of Nejd for a period long enough to transport me, together with my
belongings, &c., and to transport my suite and their properties and to provide us
with necessary means for transportation.
3. His Majesty’s Government should facilitate the transportation of the
regular troops, shereefs, warriors and Bedouin who wish to be repatriated.
4. Ibn Saud should guarantee to protect the lives and properties of all the
natives of the country, the regular and Bedouin troops—natives or otherwise—and
that he should overlook all their past faults.
5. Ibn Sand’s army should not enter Jeddah until I have left.
6 . For carrying out the affairs of the country and in order to avoid any anarchy,
a native local Government should be organised under the command of the British
Government until the Wahabi troops enter Jeddah.
7. As the Hejaz Government have no money, the necessary expenses for
carrying out articles 1, 2 and 3 should be provided by Ibn Saud.
8 . The return of our families’ private properties which are lawful belongings
and the return of the properties of our relations, and that they should not be
damaged.
9. Settling the Government debts taken from the inhabitants as loan and
paying even a part of the arrears of pay of the soldiers, officers and employees.
28.5.1344 {December 14, 1925).
ALI-BIN-HUSSEIN.
Enclosure 4 in No. 1 .
Acting Consul Jordan to Ibn Saud.
(After respects.) ' Jeddah, December \§, VAtt.
FOR the sake of humanity and in order to facilitate the return of peace and
prosperity in the Flejaz, I would be glad if your Highness will agree to meet me
at Ragama to-morrow, Thursday, in the forenoon or as soon after as possible.
(Compliments.)
S'. R. JORDAN.