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'The Seven Independent Arabian States [Yemen, ‘Asir, Hijaz, Najd, Kuwait, Jabal Shammar and al-Jawf]' [328v] (656/680)
The record is made up of 1 file (10 folios). It was created in May 1935. 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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6. During August and September 1934 the Chinese withdrew to the east of the
Scott Line, partly because of the difficulties they met with in obtaining supplies
and partly, no doubt, because of the firm protests which were made to the Chinese
Government. A force of about 700 Burma Military Police have since been kept in
the field and conditions in the Wa States have been generally quiet.
7. Meanwhile negotiations with the Chinese Government for the determination
of the section of the frontier in dispute were taken in hand. On 9th April 1935
His Majesty's Minister at Peking completed an Exchange of Notes with the Chinese
Government providing for the establishment of a Joint Boundary Commission
consisting of two representatives of each Government and a neutral Chairman to be
appointed by the President of the Council of the League of Nations. The first duty
of the Commission is to ascertain and determine on the ground and fix on the map
the frontier line prescribed by the 1897 Convention. They will also report ad
referendum to the two Governments in the light of their local examination of the
ground the cases in which the question appears to them to arise of local modifi
cations of the general treaty line on the basis of mutual concessions. In a separate
Exchange of Notes the two Governments agreed that the question of any
modifications in the frontier line in the light of the report of the Commission
or m the light of such topographical, historical or political factors as may appear
relevant, will be subsequently negotiated and. if necessary, a conference will be held
for this purpose at Nanking. The results of the report of the Commission and of
any such subsequent negotiations will then be embodied in a new Agreement.
8. It is possible for the Boundary Commission to work only during the open
season, which runs from December until May. The President of the Council of the
League of Nations has appointed as Chairman of the Boundary Commission Colonel
Iselin, a fewiss national, ^ ho has already presided over a similar Commission which
demarcated the frontier between Iraq and Syria and appears to be a most suitable
choice. Ihe British Commissioners will be Mr. Clague and Mr. Grose, two officers
of the Government of Burma. It is hoped that the Commission will start work in
the field m December and the Government of Burma has been authorised to
correspond direct with the Chinese Government, through His Majesty's Minister at
Peking, on the question of the route to be followed by the Commission and other
details regarding its organisation.
P olitical D epartment,
14th June 1935.
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This confidential memorandum, printed by the Foreign Office in May 1935 is a report by William John Childs concerning the seven independent Arabian states or autonomous areas. The report contains an introduction that states that the 'purpose of the paper is to give a brief outline each of the seven independent Arabian states', listed on folio 316, 'at the time of the Arab rising against the Turks in June 1916'.
The report is divided into sections covering each state as follows:
- 'The Imamate of Yemen ruled by Imam Yahya [Yaḥyá Muḥammad Ḥamīd al-Dīn]' (folio 316);
- 'The Principate of Asir ruled by the Idrisi [Sayyid Muḥammad bin ‘Alī al-Idrīsi]' (folios 316-317);
- 'The Emirate of Mecca (or the Hejaz) ruled by Husein [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī], Emir and Sherif of Mecca' (folios 317-319);
- 'Emirate of Nejd [Najd] ruled by Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd], Emir of Riyadh' (folios 319-323);
- 'The Sheikhdom of Koweit [Kuwait] ruled by the Sheikh of Koweit [Mubārak bin Ṣabāḥ]' (folio 323v);
- 'The Emirate of Jebel Shammar [Jabal Shammar] (or Hail [Ḥā’il]) ruled by the Emir of Hail [Sa‘ūd bin ‘Abd al-‘Azīz Āl Rashīd]' (folios 323-324)
- 'Jauf-el-Amir [Jawf al-Amīr, under the rule of Nūrī bin Sha‘lān]' (folio 324v).
A footnote on folio 316 records: 'This memorandum was prepared by the late Mr. William John Childs and found among his papers. A few modifications and additions have been made to bring it up to date'.
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- 1 file (10 folios)
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Foliation: The foliation for this description commences at folio 315, and terminates at folio 325, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, a re circles, 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 also present in parallel between folios 4-327; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and can be found in the same position as the main sequence.
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- Title
- 'The Seven Independent Arabian States [Yemen, ‘Asir, Hijaz, Najd, Kuwait, Jabal Shammar and al-Jawf]'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:315v, 310r, 316v:339v, 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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