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'File E9. Philby's Mission to Bin Sa'ud' [95r] (189/242)
The record is made up of 1 file (121 folios). It was created in 13 Nov 1917-26 Jul 1918. It was written in English and Arabic. 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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Telegram.R, COMITIDENTIAL .
Prom. Political, Bagdad,
To. Political, Bahrein.
Eo. 4641/29th
Dated. 29th May 1918.
Received. 30th May 1918.
Please inform Philby as follows, begins;— "Pirstly Koweit
Blockade, continuous evidence^ had reached us from Egypt
O
other you shall not sources that large supplies fromKoweit
reach enemy destinations. Sir Percy Cox urged as early as
Eecember that troops should be stationed at Koweit for
blockade purposes as Sheikh ££ unable or unwilling to pre
vent traffic. In February Sheikh agreed after considerable
pressure to sending of two British Officers,four British
ranks to contcol posts to Interior, Sheikh complains of
injury to his prestige, P.A. reported that early in April
that demands for goods from Koweit steadily increasing.
In first quarter of 1918 it equalled whole of 1917. Many
caravans in Koweit and others expected too numerous for
Sheikh to control. Stocks in Koweit inordinately large.
He pressed for British Regiment after arrival of which
surplus stocks should be bought by Basrah merchant financed
byGovernment. Caravans in Koweit were turned away under
circumstances which you now have full information of from
P.A. Many proceeded to Hasa where imports from Bahrein are
abnormal. Sheikh of Bahrein has been warned: also Mail
agents in all Gulf Ports privately warned to carry only
limited quantities to Koweit, but neither Government of
India nor Cocjmander-in-Chief Mesopotamia prepared to send
battalion to Koweit. Improbable that measures taken will
greatly hinder traffic, Dhows and Japanese ships bring in
goods and though ^Government has already purchased 211acs
stocks will purchase more this action willnot sufficiently
as
deplete them. Before receiving your information to effect
produced in Najd I had asked Foreign to allow blockade to
fall into abeyance on ground of its inefficacy
and fear of quenching our relations with Sheikh of Koweit
and I,S, and of relations with two last named with each
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This file contains correspondence between British officials at Bahrain, Bushire, Baghdad and Kuwait, and Harry St John Philby, as well as ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin ‘Abdullāh Āl Suwaylim, Amir of al-Qaṭīf. The file concerns Philby and Robert Edward John Hamilton's 1917/1918 mission to ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd (Ibn Sa‘ūd) at Riyadh.
The object of Philby and Hamilton's mission was to discuss Ibn Sa‘ūd's relations with Sharīf Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī of Mecca, Ibn Rashīd of Ḥā’il and the Āl Ṣabāḥ family of Kuwait. The file contains correspondence between the Captain Percy Gordon Loch, Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. at Bahrain, and Philby detailing the arrangements and progress of the trip to Najd and onward journey to Taif (for example. folio 7, 9-17. 39-49, 60-63), including a report on his first impressions of Ibn Sa‘ūd (folios 23-28) and details of an interview with Aḥmad Thāniyān (folios 30-32). There is also a memorandum by F Cunliffe Owens, deputed as a military expert on the mission, concerning military possibilities in Najd (folios 53-55).
In 1918, there is correspondence concerning Philby's meeting with Ibn Sa‘ūd in Hasa (al-Aḥsā’) (folios 76-78) and his return to Najd (folios 80-84, 107-114 and 120). There are deails within the correspondence concerning Ibn Sa‘ūd's dispute with Sharīf Ḥusayn of Mecca at al-Khurmah, the Kuwait blockade and the progress of the Mesopotamian Campaign (folios 92-98). In addition, there are also correspondence concerning the retrievel of Philby's lost baggage and supplying him with tobacco and a copy of Charles Doughty's Arabia Deserta (folios 79 and 115).
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- 1 file (121 folios)
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This file is arranged approximately in chronological order.
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Foliation: This file has an uncircled foliation number in the top right hand corner or the centre of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio.
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- English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script View the complete information for this record
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- Title
- 'File E9. Philby's Mission to Bin Sa'ud'
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- front, front-i, 2r:114v, 115v:120v, back-i, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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