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File 2182/1913 Pt 5 'Arabia Nejd: Policy Bin Saud' [280r] (135/308)
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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Had It but tit# fact that we wore not able to farce an entrance
into the town In due, firstly, to the reason that the terrain
between Kasim and Uadi is barren ground where there is no
vegetation for camels to eat 9 (and you Imm mil that nothing
can be done by Arabs wj thotit their camel©)? and secondly,
because the town is fortified and it wa» not possibl© to
fe ©nccessful ar»rmilt in the ebsmee of effective ireapon|te* ” e
hmt only our original guns v#iieh, as T have told you, are only
light one®| and mreever, wo hod not erough on-nmiticm to enable
u® to enter into fmlonwd fighting with ibn ftesbid and into
war with the Turk® generally.
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ami sent me what was necessary • '©« have done what was required
and l *m ZlumU'ul and obliged to Your 'zotmur*
(ill) I bog to acfenowletlg# alec? the receipt of the letter of
Ills excellency the Viceroy and wbm very glad to receive It.
<iv) X confirm what I told you ro:yirding the export of fy>odfj
to bestil© cmintriea and note that you have natle energetic
arrangements in that con:'action* As I said before, the system
you have estoblifted la- no doubt vary good*
(v) I note also that you hove deopatchcd the Treaty to
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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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- Title
- File 2182/1913 Pt 5 'Arabia Nejd: Policy Bin Saud'
- Pages
- 213r:331v, 333r:362v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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