File 2182/1913 Pt 5 'Arabia Nejd: Policy Bin Saud' [‎338r] (251/308)

.vent still further in hostility to Ibn Sa’ud by urging
the Al Morrah to revolt against him. (They w ere not
put down by Ibn Sa’ud till the sumer of 1916.)
The two 'AjmaB Shaikhs who had been operating
against Ibn Sa'ud, Dhaida'n ibn Hithlain (the Hithlam^
are the ruling family of the tribe) and Khumaiyis ibn
Munaikhir of the Sifran Section,fled no*tb and in Novem
ber approached Shjikh Salim with peace proposals. He re
plied that they must apply to Shaikh Mubarak and or to
Ibn Sa’Sd, whereupon Dhaiden caneto Kuwait and made sub
mission, which was accepted on a promise of future good
behaviour. Two days later messages arrived from Ibn
San Sa’ud asking Mubarak not to treat with tie Ajman.
It was too late to consider the request, but m all
probability it would not have been entertained,jis Ibn
Sa'ud was said to be so bitter against the 'Ajman that
he would put to death all who fell into his hands. The
nronisees of the ’Ajnan to Mubarak included an undertaking
to submit to the authority of Ibn Sa’ud in al Hasa where
most of the'Ajman live.
After Shaikh Mubarak’s death in December 1915, the
admission of the‘Ajman to Kuwait seemed likely to prove
a difficulty to his successor. Shaikh Jabir could not
control Ibn Sa-u'd as his father had done; he did not wish
to be on bad terms with them but feared/f he ejected
the 'Ajman, that they would join Ibn Rashid and give
trouble in Kuwait territory. He wrote clearly ^d reason-
S ab ly to Ibn Sa'ud on the matter. But in February 1916
Ibn Sa'ud insisted that they should be ejected^which was
accordingly done. As was expcted thqy joined first
Ajaimi then Ibn Rashid, .uni 'ftjrnmi,
} Shaikh Dhaidan wrote to the ’’Commander of the Turkish
Army" saying they were at his disposal. They were not