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Coll 6/9 'Jeddah Reports Jany 1931–' [282v] (565/802)
The record is made up of 1 file (399 folios). It was created in 1 Jul 1931-31 Mar 1938. 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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Chapter IV.— Miscellaneous.
26. The French sloop Diana, with Vice-Admiral Jubert on board, visited
Jedda on the 31st January and left on the 2nd February.
27. Lady Evelyn Cobbold, a rich and well-connected widow of 65, a mighty,*^
huntress, and a Moslem since the age of 8, though a pretty lax one, arrived in
Jedda on the 26th February to stay with Mr. and Mrs. Philby. She apparently
left London with some hope of being received by Ibn Saud, and also with some
idea of visiting Mecca. She is not likely to achieve the former object, but may
get to Mecca.
28. The Saudi wireless station at Qunfida has been transferred to Lith, and
has been replaced by an installation working on a wave-length of 1,100 metres.
29. The efforts of the Legation to interest the Saudi Government in
combating locusts (paragraph 347 of last year’s reports) bore further fruit on the
17th February, when an undated but apparently recent report on locusts seen
at Wejh was forwarded to the Legation, giving details somewhat on the lines of
those asked for and accompanied by two tins of very neatly packed specimens.
30. The principal arrivals of pilgrims in February were as follows :—
3.979 from Bombay and Karachi, of whom 2,638 were British Indians;
314 from Batavia and Singapore, of whom 101 were British
Malayans; and
108 from Tangier, all Moors; a total of
4,401 pilgrims.
31. The position in regard to the manumission of slaves was as follows :—
On hand at the beginning of the month : Nil.
Took refuge in February: 2 males, 1 female.
Manumitted and repatriated : 1 male.
Locally manumitted : Nil.
On hand at the end of the month : 1 male, 1 female.
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This file consists almost entirely of copies (forwarded by the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under-Secretary of State for India) of printed reports sent either by the His Majesty's Minister at Jedda (Sir Andrew Ryan, succeeded by Sir Reader William Bullard), or, in the Minister's absence, by His Majesty's Chargé d’Affaires (Cecil Gervase Hope Gill, succeeded by Albert Spencer Calvert), to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Most of the reports cover a two-month period and are prefaced by a table of contents. The reports discuss a number of matters relating to the Kingdom of the Hejaz and Nejd (later Saudi Arabia), including internal affairs, frontier questions, foreign relations, the Hajj, and slavery.
The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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- 1 file (399 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 400; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. The leather cover wraps around the documents; the back of the cover has not been foliated.
A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- Coll 6/9 'Jeddah Reports Jany 1931–'
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- front, front-i, 2r:47r, 48r, 49r:61r, 62r:89r, 91r:334r, 336r:398v, 400r:400v, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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