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File 450/1922 Pt 1 'Arabia: Nejd-Trans-Jordan dispute: Activities of Ibn Saud's followers; Proposed conference at Koweit' [399r] (802/848)
The record is made up of 1 volume (420 folios). It was created in 1922-1923. 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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mvx without this 'loTolopnont la lluie
proupeot «f a paring preposition onne the trane-
desert line oeeame an anooRpliehei faot.
COST .,
U. Abatraota A am a attached hereto glee an
eatiaated mat per alia for the line laid with 80 ibe.
flat footed rails and wooden sleepers.
Th# total east werKa out to £ 18,760 par mile.
S u.
Whether it ie nim to lay the lim with ’
wooden eleepers ie open to question, but the
addiUonaX rsoet mile for steel sleeper® of
some approved pattern would not it ie estimated be
less than £450, j I -
the approximate total length of line
to be laid is 6?a miles giving m initial capital [
I rtOSt Of iMimV'XbQ .
Aesuming that the line wsnxid talte '$ ymm
to 'complete and that proi^eoe was about imifoma,
wording from both end®, the interest at say
Mailing in the $ year® would be £1,333,000 whieh
glvee m additional eoet of £l#so or a grand total
1 £14,‘500 per mile of line,
.Fimfliff WQMTNO .
15. From all point® of view the trans-desert
line must be incorporated with the present Railway®
in 'Iraq, this would appear to postulate that the -
present system should never be handed over to the
*XTm State, even if the latter were to have a
Company or Syndicate working the line on it® behalf.
if the property were State, then oomplieaticn®
would immediately arise with the trans-desert line
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Correspondence, minutes, draft papers, and memoranda relating to the delineation of the boundary between the Kingdom of Nejd and 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 . The papers deal with matters such as the status of the Jauf [al-Jawf] region, the idea for a Baghdad-Haifa railway, numerous raids and counter raids along the border area, and the proposal and preparations for a conference in Kuwait to settle the boundary issue.
Correspondence is principally between officials at 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. , Colonial Office, Foreign Office, and Admiralty. Further correspondence, included as enclosures, comes from the High Commissioner in Iraq, HM Consul in Damascus, 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. , the High Commissioner in Palestine, and Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] himself.
Documents of note in the volume include:
- 'Note on the Trans-Arabian Railway' by Major A C Griffin, Deputy Director of Railways, Iraq, 6 January 1922 (folios 385-405)
- Memorandum by Harry St John Bridger Philby on his visit to Jauf and his negotiations with tribal leaders there, 27 May 1922 (folios 367-375).
Each part includes a divider which gives the subject and part numbers, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references contained in that part by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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- 1 volume (420 folios)
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The volume is arranged in chronological order from the back to the front. The subject 450 (Arabia: Nejd-Trans-Jordan Dispute) consists of four parts, IOR/L/PS/10/1033-1034, with part 1 comprising one volume, and parts 2-4 comprising the second volume.
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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 422; 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. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 2-420; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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- File 450/1922 Pt 1 'Arabia: Nejd-Trans-Jordan dispute: Activities of Ibn Saud's followers; Proposed conference at Koweit'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:235v, 237r:334v, 339r:421v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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