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'File 61/11 V (D 95) Hejaz - Nejd, Miscellaneous' [95r] (206/530)
The record is made up of 1 volume (261 folios). It was created in 12 May 1932-28 Dec 1933. It was written in English and French. 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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THIS PQCUMEHT K THE PBOPIBTt OF HIS BBlTfiMHIC MAJESTT S OOVERNMEKT
1 7
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EASTERN (Arabia).
CONFIDENTIAL.
[E 6455/5839/25]
K:
December 7, 1932.
Section 1.
Mr. Hope Gill to Sir John Simon.—(Received December 7 )
(No. 450.)
Sir
wttxt i . , 17, 1932.
in A^v t ® grani I J 0 - 204 of to " da y regarding the situation
wWWliI t -J,? | J 10110111, to transmit herewith a translation of a memorandum
which the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs handed yesterday to me
and I think to my Italian colleague, and possibly to other colleagues also. It
will no doubt be published m the Mecca press.
?" i^ l rec ^? ^he steps by which the entire administration of Asir was
eventually handed over by the Idrisi to Ibn Saud in 1930, affirms that since then
peace and prosperity have reigned, but admits that friction has recently been
caused between the Idrisi and Ibn Saud's Amir or Governor. The friction is
stated to be purely personal, however, but so intense as to have caused the Idrisi
to appeal to Ibn Saud, with protests of loyalty, to change his Amir. The
memorandum concludes with the information that a committee of enquiry has
been ordered, and by expressing the hope that there will be no need for militarv
operations. J
- p , ^ ner ^ main ^ahya nor armed and moneyed Hejazi conspirators
ot the Dabbagh gang are behind the Idrisi, these hopes may well be -justified for
strong Saudi reinforcements have been despatched by sea and from the interior.
S e r^ r ? er T are stanc ^ n S b y at Qunfida by Ibn Saud's orders, the latter, under
Unalid-bm-Luwey, are further inland, while the committee of investigation
comprismg Sheikh Abdullah Suleiman's brother Hamid and the Tripolitan
Khalid-al-Qarqani, are approaching Jizan. The garrison of this place, under
Ibn baud s Amir, is thought to have now surrendered to the Idrisi after being
besieged, waterless, in the old Turkish fort which overlooks the town, but their
wireless station has apparently been damaged and the Government have no certain
news of them.
4. I am sending copies of this despatch and enclosure to the Chief
Commissioner at Aden and the Acting Commissioner at Port Sudan.
I have, &c.
C. G. HOPE GILL.
Enclosure in No. 1.
Memorandum.
(Translation.)
is known that in accordance with correspondence, decisions and discus
sions exchanged in the month of Jumad-ath-Thani, 1349, between Sayyid-al-
Hasan-al-Idrisi and the Legislative Assembly of the Idrisi Province on the one
side and the Government of His Majesty the King on the other, Sayyid Hasan
and his Legislative Assembly ceded the administration of the country, as was
recorded in the Treaty of Protection concluded at Mecca oh the 14th Eabi-ath-
Ihani, 1345 (the 21st October, 1926). His Majesty accepted this cession in
accordance with the gracious Royal decree issued on the 29th Jumad-ath-Thani,
1349 (the 21st November, 1930), in which the nature of the administration, duties
and authority of Sayyid-al-Hasan, the Legislative Assembly, the Amir of the
territory and the director of its finance are defined. The new arrangement
started to function as from that date.
2. During the period since the new arrangement came into force nothing
0< n C t0 - entan ^ e ^e procedure of administrative and financial affairs, and
all have enjoyed the prosperity, peace and good arrangement that took the place
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The volume consists of letters, telegrams, and memoranda relating to the Hejaz and Najd. Much of the correspondence is from the British Legation in Jeddah, with regular reports on the situation in that region sent to Sir John Simon, the Foreign Secretary in London. The rest of the correspondence is mostly between the Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. in Bushire, the Political Agencies in Kuwait, Bahrain, and Muscat, the Colonial Office, and the Government of India.
The main subjects of the volume are:
- the change in name from 'The Kingdom of the Hejaz-Nejd and its Dependencies' to 'The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia';
- the announcement of Ibn Sa'ud's eldest son, Prince Sa'ud, as the heir apparent to the throne;
- the territorial dispute between Yemen and Saudi Arabia after the latter's absorption of the 'Asir region into its kingdom.
A copy of the 23 September 1932 issue of the newspaper Umm al-Qura is contained in the volume (folios 57-58). It features the Royal Order proclaiming the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Other miscellaneous subjects covered in the volume include:
- relations between Italy and Saudi Arabia;
- a dispute between Ibn Sa'ud and his agent in Bahrain, al-Quasaibi [‘Abd al-‘Azīz al-Qusaibi], over a debt the former owes the latter;
- a revolt against Ibn Sa'ud by tribes loyal to ex-King Hussein coming from Sinai;
- a request for a loan made by Ibn Sa'ud to the British Government;
- relations between the Soviet Union and Saudi Arabia;
- relations between the USA and Saudi Arabia, including the visit of a Mr Gallant looking for oil concessions;
- concessions for the building of the railway between Mecca and Jeddah;
- the prospect of Saudi Arabia joining the League of Nations;
- the case of two slave girls seeking refuge at the British Legation in Jeddah.
Other documents of note contained in the volume are:
- a copy of a new customs tariff for Saudi Arabia (folios 122-134)
- a 'Who's Who' of Saudi Arabia, produced by the British Legation in Jeddah and covering all those deemed important to know by the British (folios 183-200);
- an envelope containing the torn-out pages of an article in the International Affairs journal (Vol. 12, No. 4, Jul., 1933, pp 518-534) entitled 'Ibn Sa'ud and the Future of Arabia.'
At the back of the volume (folios 245-251) are internal office notes.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (261 folios)
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The volume is arrranged chronologically.
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Foliation: The sequence starts on the first folio and continues to the inside back cover. The numbers are written in pencil, circled and 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. Note that following f 1 are folios 1A, 1B, 1C, and 1D. The sequence then continues as normal from folio 2. There are two other foliation systems present but both are inconsistent and neither are circled.
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- 'File 61/11 V (D 95) Hejaz - Nejd, Miscellaneous'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 1r:1v, 1ar:1ev, 8v:11v, 15r:43v, 45v:56v, 59r:64r, 69v:118v, 120v:127v, 128v:133v, 134v:149v, 151v:161v, 162v:164v, 166r:166v, 168r:171v, 172v:174v, 175v:179v, 181r:201r, 202v:212v, 222r:225r, 226r:243v, 244v:256v, back-i
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