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Government and concluding with the following words: The Government will put
soldiers in El Kasim, and there will be official relations between you (i.e. Ibn Saud)
Const to aucl an ^ a11 of you wil1 136 in tlle service of the Sultan. As for Jbn Rashid
F.O., No. 1)6 sllaI1 j lave nothing to do with affairs in Nejd." In the following month, how-
157, 8.3,05. ever, the Turks were still apparently supporting Ibn Rashid against Ibn Saud.
Ahdur 'Rahman takes Oath of Allegiance to Turkey, 1905.
Basra to 13 V ln . Ma y 1905 ^ was reported that Riyadh, Washem, Sedayr and their
Const., No. dependencies had been formed into a caza of which the centre was to be Riyadh
26,19.5.05. and that Ibn Saud s father had been made Kaimakan of the new caza on solemnlv
taking an oath of allegiance to the Sultan.
Projected Visit hy Ihn Saud to Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. , 1905-1906.
138. Towards the end of 1905 information was received that Ibn Saud had
visited Katr (still nominally under Turkish rule) and composed certain tribal
disputes there, and that he was meditating a visit to the Trncial Coast and to
Bre. lr. 513 Muscat. This news had seriously disturbed the Sheikh of Abu Dhabi, who had
to G. of I., himself been instrumental in the final extinction of Wahabi influence from Baraimi
? )9 '285 06 an<i . tlie Trucial Goast in 1870, and the Sultan of Muscat, both of whom (with the
Sheikh of Dabai) belonged to the Hinawi tribe and feared that the arrival of
Ibn Saud would be the signal for a combination against them of the remainincr
Irncial ( lnels v\lio belonged to the Ghafan tribe. Ibn Saud, moreover, was
reported to have remarked " By God, I will explore the country belonging to my
father and grandfather from Muscat to Jaalan."
Views of Government of India and H.M. Government.
G. ofi. Desp. 139. The Government of India were seriously disturbed as to the possible effect
P 285/06 011 0Ur P 08 ^ 011 ou . t ^ le Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. and in Muscat of a visit by Ibn Saud.
S. of 's. If-M. Government in the light of their views decided after consultation with the
Desp. i5. Ambassador at Constantinople that if Ibn Saud appeared on the coast and failed to
13.4.06, give satisfactory assurances as to his intentions, he should be warned that any
P. 2834/06. attempt on his part to interfere in Oman or along the Arab coast, either with the
Chiefs or with their subjects, would be regarded as an unfriendly act and that
Bre. lr. 51 steps would bo taken to frustrate it. Before these instructions were received,
of 4.2.06, ''ercy Cox had conveyed a hint in this sense to Ibn Saud through the Sheikh
P. 535/06. of Koweit (who regarded the proposed visit as a mere attempt to blackmail the
coastal Chiefs). The visit, probably owing to the unsettled situation in Nejd, was
abandoned. It should be recorded that, on the instructions of H.M. Government,
the Lruciai Sheikhs were in the same connection warned by the Resident that, on
the ground that general unrest prejudicial to British commercial interests on the
Coast would inevitably result, the Government of India would not view with
complacency the intrigues of any of them with Ibn Saud.
Defeat of Ihn Rashid, May 1906.
Const, to 140. In May 1906 Ibn Rashid and his immediate following of 250 were
KO., 292, surprised and annihilated in Qasim by Ibn Saud, and Ibn Saud was reported from
Jedda m June ot that year to have declared himself, consequent on his victory,
ruler of the whole "Shark" (East) and to have sent letters to Constantinople,
asrah, Bagdad, the Hedjaz, and the Sherif of Mecca. Sir Nicholas O'Conor
doubted, howeyei, whether Ibn Saud would be able to cope with the Turks,
" should he decide to proclaim his independence of the Sultan."
Turkish Allowances to Ibn Saud.
141. In August 1906 the Consul at Basrah reported that the allowance granted
Koweit to j/ 1 t ? r 11 Sa ; u( ? was a recent arr angement paid through the Sheikh of
Resdt.,' Koweit who deducted it from the land tax on his Fao property. The Sheikh
30.9.06. stated that the allowances paid by the Turks were 90 liras a month to Ibn Sand 's
lather and 200 liras and about 300 tons of rice to Ibn Rashid. In October 1906
^ Resident at Bagdad reported a statement that Ibn Saud had in the past received
ctl.30 a month from Turkey, with 100 suits of clothes and some grain-an
allowance now alleged to have been discontinued.