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File 3665/1924 Pt 3 ‘Arabia:- Situation 1924. Wahabi attack on Trans-Jordania; Hedjaz - Trans-Jordanian Boundary.’ [204r] (285/340)
The record is made up of 1 item (168 folios). It was created in 27 Aug 1924-7 May 1925. 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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X8th August. 1924,
Chief Secretary,. ! C,24
GoTernment Offices,
Jerusalem.
Subject: Wahahl Raid of 14.8.24.
I attach hereto a copy of the Report on the action
furnished by Group Captain MaoKwen and the Report on events
furnished by Mr. A.L. Kirkbride who, in my absence in
Jerusalem, was Acting Chief British Representative. I will
also furnish by next mail a statement of information
collected by the Government from the Wahabi prisoners.
The C.C., R.A.P., Amman, has given me a copy of a
telegram from the Air Ministry which I attach hereto. The
discrepancies are presumably as follows:-
About 9 a.m. on the 14th I spoke by telephone to Peake
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
who informed me the numbers were estimated at about
1,000 and a little later Mr. Kirkbride phoned me that the
Wahabis had been bombed and machine gunned and were moving
S.M. The telephone was very bad. presumably your wire
referred to was based on this early information which subse
quently proved to be inaccurate.
According to the latest information supplied to Lt.Col.
Peake by one of his officers the local casualties are 121
killed and 26 wounded, both villagers and Beni 3akhr, whilst
the Wahabis lost between 500 and 700. I have reported to
you in another letter the casualties suffered by the Arab
Legion in the neighbourhood of Kaf. (My LL-1 of 17.8.24.)
On the evening of the 16th I learned from the 0.C.,R.A.F.,
that the tracks of a large number of camels moving north had
appeared on the main track leading from Kaff to f scus
between Wednesday, the 13th and Friday, the 15th August,
this information I at once communicated to Capitaine ! upuenet
at Deraa on the evening of the 16th. On the morning of the
17th
. sr.I
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Correspondence and other papers concerning a Wahabi [Wahhabi] attack on Transjordan Used in three contexts: the geographical region to the east of the River Jordan (literally ‘across the River Jordan’); a British protectorate (1921-46); an independent political entity (1946-49) now known as Jordan (or Trans Jordan [Jordan]) in August 1924. The papers cover: initial reports of an attempted raid by Wahabi troops on Amman on 14 August 1924; the repulsion of the attack by British ground and air forces; Ibn Saud’s [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] protest at the British action against Wahabi troops, and the British Government’s rebuttal of this protest; discussion concerning the precise location of boundary between Transjordan Used in three contexts: the geographical region to the east of the River Jordan (literally ‘across the River Jordan’); a British protectorate (1921-46); an independent political entity (1946-49) now known as Jordan , Hejaz, and Najd, with particular reference to the towns of Akaba [Aqaba] and Tebuk [Tabuk], and the Ma’an vilayet; a sketch map of the boundary, illustrating an 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. note written by John Percival Gibson (f 104).
The item’s principal correspondents include: the Assistant Under Secretary of State at the Colonial Office, John Evelyn Shuckburgh; the Foreign Office; the Air Ministry; the Chief British Representative in Transjordan Used in three contexts: the geographical region to the east of the River Jordan (literally ‘across the River Jordan’); a British protectorate (1921-46); an independent political entity (1946-49) now known as Jordan , Charles Henry Fortnom Cox; the 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. , Francis Beville Prideaux (through whom the British Government corresponded with Ibn Saud); the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett Amery.
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