File 2182/1913 Pt 5 'Arabia Nejd: Policy Bin Saud' [225r] (25/308)
The record is made up of 1 item (154 folios). It was created in 26 Dec 1915-12 Dec 1916. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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Translation of a letter from Chief Political Officer,
to .Amir Abdul-Aziz A1 Faisal Al-iiaood, dated Basrah,October
18th 1916•
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Except for my letter of the 09th August, 1915, asking
you to co-operate in the matter of the purchase of oamele,
it is A coneiierabl© time since I have been able to write
to /our Kxcellancy on the otrier hand sine© mj last lengthy
coB^mmication, I have received several welcome letters from
yourself. In them you have touched on a number of subjects
with most of wiich I can deal more conveniently in separate
oonumi cations •
X propose to confine this particular letter to the
most important subject which you have di©cussed; viz, the
rising of the Jharif Husain and his operations against the
Turks in Hijaz* lou have written on this subject in your
letters of the 18th Ramazan * 30th July, 15th oh&wwal *
15th jfcguet and 4 th Dhi 1-qadah fK Heptembar • In the first
letter you tm V*** *• of y° ur ^®^p.latlon a with ths
Sharif, cnl told me eh&t you feared his designs might be
now, that ^ 14 to say you anticipated that he might have
some intention of Interfering in Majd as h® had done before,
fluid you ashed me to communicate your vieve and fears* to
II. £ f s irovemment. In your second letter you wrote to say that
you had received letters from the Hharif, asking you to
unite ynuroolf with him and to render him assistance, and
you continued that pending your learning the views of fee
British Govern-©nt, you had replied to the Sharif that if
he was sincere in his intentions towards you, he should
first give you a solemn undertalcing to abstain in future
fro© all intrusion within your /limits and among your tribes*
You wrote that you would communicate again with me, Then you
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received his reply*
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Part 5 concerns Britain's relations with Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd], and, to a lesser extent, Britain's relations with the Grand Sherif [Sharif] of Mecca [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī]. It includes the following:
- a copy of a treaty between the British government and Bin Saud, dated 26 December 1915, plus a copy of the ratified treaty, dated 18 July 1918;
- reports of an agreement between Bin Saud and Bin Rashid [Saʿūd bin ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Āl Rashīd];
- details of munitions that are to be given by the British to Bin Saud;
- translated copies of correspondence between the High Commissioner, Cairo, and the Grand Sherif of Mecca;
- discussion as to whether the British should press Bin Saud to take specific action to assist both the British and the recently deposed Grand Sherif of Mecca;
- details of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Percy Zachariah Cox's meetings with Bin Saud.
The principal correspondents are the following:
- Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Percy Zachariah Cox (as both Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and Chief Political Officer, Indian Expeditionary Force D);
- Bin Saud;
- Viceroy of India [Charles Hardinge, succeeded by Frederic John Napier Thesiger];
- Secretary of State for India [Joseph Austen Chamberlain];
- High Commissioner, Cairo (Sir Arthur Henry McMahon);
- Grand Sherif of Mecca [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī];
- Foreign Office;
- Secretary to the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. 's Political Department (Arthur Hirtzel).
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